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Equipment & Techniques => Digital Cameras & Shooting Techniques => Topic started by: Dinarius on February 13, 2006, 02:26:40 pm

Title: Canon 20D - Shutter stopped working momentarily..
Post by: Dinarius on February 13, 2006, 02:26:40 pm

I was in the middle of a job this afternoon.

I remember quickly deleting an image and then immediately changing the aperature (I always shoot on manual).

I then fired the shutter and nothing happened. I could change the aperature and shutter speed, and I could view images on the screen. But, the shutter would not fire.

So, I swithed off the camera. Strangely, the information display did not disappear from the screen. I switched on the camera again. Still no shutter firing.

So, I switched off the camara (the display was still visible) and removed the battery. After reinserting it, the camera worked fine.

Anyone ever had this problem?

Thanks.


D.

ps. The battery was/is almost fully charged

Title: Canon 20D - Shutter stopped working momentarily..
Post by: DarkPenguin on February 13, 2006, 02:55:53 pm

Yep.

I've had a number of failures that were quickly fixed by popping out the battery.  (Including one that sounds identical to your failure.  I also liked the one where it couldn't pop up the flash until I pulled the battery.)

Title: Canon 20D - Shutter stopped working momentarily..
Post by: macgyver on February 13, 2006, 07:46:23 pm

I have too, and the battery always works.  So far, nothing bad has stayed permanently so I can't tell you much other than that you are not alone.

Title: Canon 20D - Shutter stopped working momentarily..
Post by: jeffreyluce on February 13, 2006, 09:43:04 pm

I have had my 20D become non-responsive like that also... popping the battery out... counting to 5 and putting it back in seems to fix.

I'd say after a year of owning the 20D, I've had this sort of thing happen at least 2, maybe 3 times.

I cannot recall if it has happened since I've gotten the latest firmware update (version 2.0.3)

Title: Canon 20D - Shutter stopped working momentarily..
Post by: ysengrain on February 18, 2006, 09:29:27 am

 
I'd the same event with my 20D, but also with my cell phone a P910 by Sony Ericsson. When I had a Palm, it was the same. And with Windows, isn't it the same PC owners ? (I 'm a Mac user)