EOS wrote:
> My EOS 5 mode dial broke twice before I got fed up with it and changed
> camera. I always wondered if it was just my camera, but it seems other
> people have experienced this problems. How common is it?
VERY common. My old A2 is in the body and fender shop (a.k.a. Canon's
Irvine service center) right now for exactly this repair.
> Furthermore,
> they don't just replace the dial, they replace the whole hood, including
> flash, because it seems that the dial mechanism is built in the hood and
> there is no way to replace just the dial, which turns it into a very
> expensive failure.
Who did your repair?
The Canon service center in Irvine does the mode dial repair for $116
without replacing the top deck. As an added bonus, the've devised a repair
in which they replace the plastic detent cam (the breakage-prone part) with
a metal equivalent that their head tech came up with - I know a few people
who've had it done, and they've all stayed fixed.
-- Patrick
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