Canon 5D drama
I recently had trouble with my 5D: I’d just finished shooting the Mawson Flotilla job, and had dropped it in to our local repairer for a sensor clean ($100 bucks these days), and the next day they rang me and said “You’re camera doesn’t work. At all.” A bit peeved, I went in to check with them, and sure enough, nothing. Dead. They swore that they hadn’t dropped it or spilt coffee on it or anything, just tried to turn it on and got the equivalent of a camera blank stare. So I had it sent off to Canon in Sydney, and the quote came back at $1200 repair! Sheesh! I’d just been forced to buy a third camera (my 7D) and that had only cost me $1395. Not a 5D I know, but … eek. As it turned out, the repair cost $755, as Canon had originally thought it was the board that drives the camera that had gone “phut”, but it was “only” the upper module that required replacement. And it took 6 weeks. And they lost the battery I left with the camera. Not very impressed…
