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I have a Rebel SL1 and I had the camera produce an ERROR yesterday as soon as I turned it on. After several attempts to turn it on only leading to an ERROR that could only be seen in the viewfinder eyepiece (the LCD monitor was completely black), I pulled the battery out and put it back and it restarted normally. I didn't know there was a possible error number so I never noticed if there was one or not.
I called Canon and they told me that it could be one of two things, either the Sensor cleaning function failed or the motherboard that "pushes" the memory card to wake up as he described it, may be failing.
I ran it the rest of the day yesterday and took 60+ shots and it's running now, but I was told to turn off the Sensor Cleaning function as it's not needed.
What makes it tricky no matter what is that while the camera is less than a year old (warranty), it's also my IR converted camera, so if something does blow on it, I would have to pay half price to swap out the filters and then pay again to swap out the IR filter again. I've had it since August.
I'm wondering why the guy at Canon is telling me that we shouldn't be using the Sensor Cleaning function more than once every few months in the first place, and would you do if you were in the same situation and it was something else? We're talking about $125 to remove the sensor before I can send to Canon to avoid warranty invalidation, and then another $350 when I get it back from Canon to put the filter back in. That's a bit odd because I already own the filter now that I bought it, but maybe they'd give me a discount, though I don't know how much the filter actually cost me by itself.
Thanks for your input.
Bill
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