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Good thing this was a 40D. If it had been a 1DmkIII, people would be complaining about it smoking and overheating on warm sunny days and looking for a permanent fix from Canon.

or perhaps it could have fixed the focusing issues

Dare I even comment on this?? Nahhhhhh.

Apr 15, 2008 at 09:45 PM

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Moral of the story is not to point your camera at the sun with a long lens attached.

That's why they are called the big guns. Same firearm analogy applies: Don't aim your gun at something you're not prepared to shoot!

Great to hear everything worked out!

Edited on Apr 15, 2008 at 09:59 PM

Apr 15, 2008 at 09:57 PM

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glad it all worked out ok hnilsson

Apr 16, 2008 at 02:11 AM

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p.5 #4 · So I destroyed my first camera (40D) the other day...(FINAL UPDATE)

Wow, that is absolutely terrible.

Apr 16, 2008 at 02:19 AM

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Wow, what a story and what a deal. I think you'll be staying with Canon for a while, eh?

Thanks for posting this story, I would have never thought this possible.

And some of you guys on this board are friggin smart.

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UPDATE:

Well, the patient could unfortunately not be saved. After heroic attempts, the plug was pulled. BUT in the end, Canon took very good care of me. I now have a new 40D at the repair charge. Thank you Canon for great service - it made the pain and ego bruising pass a little more easily. And thanks to all of you FM members who offered comments - even the funny ones.

Moral of the story is not to point your camera at the sun with a long lens attached.

Apr 16, 2008 at 03:03 AM

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p.5 #6 · So I destroyed my first camera (40D) the other day...(FINAL UPDATE)

No doubt its going straight to the Canon museum

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I'm glad to hear Canon took care of you. They're good people.

BTW, did you get the old 40D back? I'd give it a viking funeral. little raft, set it on fire, kick it off into the ocean. I plan to do that with about 2 or 3 of my cameras.

Max

Brilliant idea! Just like the old, old, old days. Unfortunately, the body remained with Canon. They did, however, send me back the extra battery with the new body. I thought that was a nice added touch.

Apr 16, 2008 at 03:05 AM

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glad it all worked out ok hnilsson

I've destroyed two cameras with lenses on them in the past three years. First one's body was never found after I tried to use a snowy rock overlooking a waterfall as a makeshift tripod. It tumbled off the rock and over the falls. Done. And then last summer while hiking I didn't secure my bag well enough and both camera and lens tumbled out and bounced off several rocks during the plummet down the trail. So don't feel bad dude.

I'm tempted to start a new thread - "Tell me how you destroyed your camera"

Apr 16, 2008 at 03:52 AM

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glad it all worked out ok hnilsson

Apr 16, 2008 at 04:39 AM

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p.5 #9 · So I destroyed my first camera (40D) the other day...(FINAL UPDATE)

Great story and bravo to Canon for handing you a new camera straight up. They're probably enjoying it back at the office and gawking over it in the labs.

Apr 16, 2008 at 04:47 AM

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p.5 #10 · So I destroyed my first camera (40D) the other day...(FINAL UPDATE)

I've had telescopes pointed at the sun and the eyepiece will get quite hot after a while. (no you DON'T look thru it, you focus it on a piece of paper) a 700mm telescope is measured quite differently from a lens though, a lens is not the size of the tube opening. btw, this was in northern AZ, so quite a bit lower in Latitude than Canada.

Apr 16, 2008 at 06:55 PM

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p.5 #11 · So I destroyed my first camera (40D) the other day...(FINAL UPDATE)

It sounds like Canon did a very nice deed. This reminds me of the sports shooter that had a long lens mounted on a 1 Series body, tripped and completely crushed the body. It was on one of the forums about two years ago. The pictures were unbelievable.

Apr 16, 2008 at 07:36 PM

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p.5 #12 · So I destroyed my first camera (40D) the other day...(FINAL UPDATE)

hnilsson, glad to hear things worked out okay......................

Apr 16, 2008 at 11:36 PM

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hnilsson, glad to hear things worked out okay......................

Thanks. All things considered, I'm a lucky lad.

Apr 17, 2008 at 06:13 AM

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It sounds like Canon did a very nice deed. This reminds me of the sports shooter that had a long lens mounted on a 1 Series body, tripped and completely crushed the body. It was on one of the forums about two years ago. The pictures were unbelievable.

I was so surprised that I didn't even think of taking a shot of the burned mirror box. In hindsight, I wish I did. And yes, Canon did a very nice deed.

Apr 17, 2008 at 06:14 AM

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hnilsson wrote:
I'm tempted to start a new thread - "Tell me how you destroyed your camera"

I think there was a thread like this sometime ago.
The best post in it was by a guy who killed his camera (a 20D, I think) 5 times, and would show a picture taken at each killing site, just before... there was "salt water", "mud", and others I can't remember. I think the camera was miraculously healed each time, except for the last one... Too bad a search did not let me find this.

Apr 17, 2008 at 08:29 AM

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p.5 #16 · So I destroyed my first camera (40D) the other day...(FINAL UPDATE)

I heard that a Nikon guy with a D3 made the exact same mistake.... EXCEPT the D3 melted the sun instead!!!

That sucks and is really crazy. Glad to see it was resolved and you are shooting again.

Edited on Apr 17, 2008 at 09:33 AM

Apr 17, 2008 at 09:28 AM

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hnilsson wrote:
I'm tempted to start a new thread - "Tell me how you destroyed your camera"

I think there was a thread like this sometime ago.
The best post in it was by a guy who killed his camera (a 20D, I think) 5 times, and would show a picture taken at each killing site, just before... there was "salt water", "mud", and others I can't remember. I think the camera was miraculously healed each time, except for the last one... Too bad a search did not let me find this.

lol yeah... that was me...

http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/449744

Oh, since then, I've had a Canon A620 take a tumble off a ledge in Mexico some 12-15 feet onto the rocky area below. Camera was banged up, lens ring thing warped, case cracked open, wouldn't take pictures, but it would turn on I think. Sent it in for repairs and it came back fine.

Took a Fuji F31fd on a rafting trip in Israel, protecting it in a ziplock back. Yeah, so the bag didn't work so much. Wound up getting soaked through the bag. Shot with my cell phone camera instead for the remainder of the trip. Came home and sent it back to Fuji for repairs and it worked after that, though the JPEGs do have some strange purplish cast to them now for some reason...

Jan 24, 2009 at 09:07 AM

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p.5 #18 · So I destroyed my first camera (40D) the other day...(FINAL UPDATE)

thanks for sharing, OP.

now we know not to do that. owner's manual addendum: "always put glorious lens cap back on lens before walking with glee away from camera & rabbits."

Jan 24, 2009 at 09:39 AM

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p.5 #19 · So I destroyed my first camera (40D) the other day...(FINAL UPDATE)

I went into the thread to look at your update, which I thought would be in the original post. It's buried in the thread and I don't have the time to read the whole thread to find it. Glad that everything seems to have worked out somehow.

Jan 24, 2009 at 12:54 PM

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p.5 #20 · So I destroyed my first camera (40D) the other day...(FINAL UPDATE)

This happened in around three seconds:

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Jan 24, 2009 at 02:29 PM

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p.5 #21 · So I destroyed my first camera (40D) the other day...(FINAL UPDATE)

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I guess if there's good news at least you didn't tell that you knocked the whole setup off the side of a cliff and lose the big gun as well.

Well .... I didn't quite do that - but I did manage to drop my 10D off a cliff while changing the lens.

Jan 24, 2009 at 03:23 PM

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p.5 #22 · So I destroyed my first camera (40D) the other day...(FINAL UPDATE)

The earth is over 2 million miles closer to the sun during (northern hemisphere) winter.

Jan 24, 2009 at 03:29 PM

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p.5 #23 · So I destroyed my first camera (40D) the other day...(FINAL UPDATE)

any photos of your damaged camera? i want to see it.
at least you didnt get injured

Jan 24, 2009 at 03:41 PM

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p.5 #24 · So I destroyed my first camera (40D) the other day...(FINAL UPDATE)

Here is a very true story. I met the photographer.
He was climbing Mt Everest and very near the top took out his Canon ( don't rememebr which model but digital) to take a few shots and dropped it. It tumbled down a face and wound up gaining enough momentum to make it over an edge and fell from site. When returning from the summit he stopped where he last seen it go over the edge and it was a few hundred feet to another ledge and so on and so on. He wrote the camera off. A week later in one of the camps at the foot of Everest he was approached by another climber who he knew casually. The other climber asked if he'd like to come by his tent and check out some amazing images he has of a climb. Sure the guy says and off they went. Appearantly the other climber had lost hold of pick of some sort and wasn't about to leave it behind. He climbed down to where it was wedged ( which was a few thousand feet below where you know who lost his camera) and happened across a Canon camera. It looked like hell but when he turned on the power button he could barely make out images on the busted LCD. He recognized his friend and pocketed the camera. They met up later to check out these "Amazing photos" in his tent. To the photographers disbelief he recognized the photos and went nuts. The photographer contacted Canon when he got back to the states and sent the camera in for repair with a note explaining the story. Canon offered him a brand new camera free if they could keep the old one. He agreed and very soon here you will see this story in and ad for Canon. Very true story.

Jan 24, 2009 at 11:40 PM

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p.5 #25 · So I destroyed my first camera (40D) the other day...(FINAL UPDATE)

Wow, I was just in Cancun shooting some sunrises and seascapes with my 10-20 and 40D....
Perhaps it's a blessing that I can't afford a nice tele yet.... I would have been devastated if that had happend to me because I've hardly had the camera a month.

Thanks for sharing this story, and I'm glad that it worked out for you, testing AF modes is something I spent a lot of time working on during the vacation:

Jan 25, 2009 at 02:22 AM


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