>Something happened to my EOS 50. When I press the shutter release, the icon >displaying the empty battery starts blinking. The mirror in fact stays in raised >position. I need to press the shutter release button for the second time in order to >get the mirror down, otherwise mirror remains blocked in raised position. I thought >it could be battery, so I replaced it, but the problem persists. Any ideas what could >be wrong and is it serious? > >Thanks, > >Valdas
Is this perhaps the famous battery problem, solved with a paper shim to hold the battery tighter in contact? Or using a different battery make? Battery contacts should be cleaned as well as the lens mounts cleaned. Let us know if you fix it please. It appeared that this was not the battery problem. In fact this is some kind of electronic malfunction. I�m not a specialist in this field but in the service they told me that some electronic device (chip or whatever) needs to be replaced which would cost me about 200 EUR. This is a price of used camera in decent shape and now I�m completely lost and don�t know what to do. I consider several options: 1)get it repaired and hope that this will not happen in the future (but I feel a bit uncomfortable about that because in the service they told me that from time to time they have EOS 50 with this exactly problem, so it�s a kind of weakness of this model) 2)upgrade to EOS 30 or EOS 5 and leave the old camera as it is or sell or keep as a back up. Any recommendations, any past similar experience with EOS 50 (is it really a model that has this weakness)? Thanks, Valdas -->Silciausia meiles istorija filme "Mergina is Alabamos"! Tik kinuose nuo sausio 24 d. * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
