I had sent in my 7D for a quick clean and check to Jamesburg. The repair note said "Bottom PCB screw repaired"
Now the 7D makes a tiny sound very very similar to a 'wandering-screw-inside'. In as many years as I have had the 7D i never noticed any sound coming out the camera. I checked the 5D Mark II and it doess'nt make such sounds if gently shaken from side by side.
The Canon 20D does make the same sound as though.
Does your 7D make this sound ? The sound is very tiny and audible and is exactly the way it sounds if you were to drop a screw inside a radio or some such small electronic thingy. The location of the noise seems near the flash hot shoe or the VF
Sounds like a wee steely ball rounding down an inclined plane? If so, that's either the orientation sensor or an alien nano robot programmed to burrow out of the pentaprism and eat your brain...
Gochugogi wrote:
Sounds like a wee steely ball rounding down an inclined plane? If so, that's either the orientation sensor or an alien nano robot programmed to burrow out of the pentaprism and eat your brain...
I vote for the orientation sensor...sounds like it has lost its' orientation...lost in camera trying to find its' way back to its' home location...shoot vertical for a few shots and see if that helps
It's been a while since orientation sensors with moving mechanical parts have been last used - it's all solid state these days. I vote for either the loose screw or the built-in flash hinge (the latter being nothing to worry about).
It's part of the flash pop up mechanism, or the orientation sensor as someone previously suggested. This is per Canon Service in Irvine, which had my 7D for the lock button upgrade. Normal.
Jeff wrote:
It's part of the flash pop up mechanism, or the orientation sensor as someone previously suggested. This is per Canon Service in Irvine, which had my 7D for the lock button upgrade. Normal.
Thanks Jeff. I too called Jamesburg and was told it is from an untensioned "lift spring" mechanism for on-board flash and is normal. He also said this is present in almost every body with an on board flash.
Monito wrote:
Right. It doesn't enter by eyeballs. But if you put your ear next to the viewfinder, game over.
I should have listened and not listened, but I didn't listen, so I listened, and now I'm off my game.
Actually, the only SLR I have with a pop-up flash is an ancient D60. Guess I need to dig it out and try it.
Now that you brought it up I do hear a little rattle that I never paid any attention to before however not like a screw tumbling around inside. Its very consistent and in the same location that I have narrowed down to the little shiny metal popup linkages in the hinge area of the popup flash visible when the flash is popped-up.
I feel that in my case this normal and in no way a harbinger of doomdom in the kingdom or any other annoyance in the least.
This may be what you are hearing so I hope this helps. Then again perhaps not if you are able to tell that the noise you are hearing is definitely defiantly traveling around inside your 7D body. If so then it sounds to me like a trip back to Canon service.
I am now visualizing 7D owners all over the planet and elsewhere reading this, as I am now, and shaking their cameras like mariachi band maracas.
There is a normal "click" from inside the camera when one turns it, this is the horizontal/vertical sensor. There may also be bits like the pop-up flash link. The reason that I think that it is the "screw loose" problem is that the error and the rattle started at the same time.
I can't say with certainty, but people who have "this screw loose" have experienced the same problems. The “Cannot communicate with battery" error, and
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