Re: I am an idiot and need to have my eyes checked
Sorry to hear about the below. Nothing that isn\'t easily fixed however.
Just take the sucker into the local service center with the screen you want to use and tell them you want it calibrated for bang-on manual focus.
Don\'t have a MkII but almost sounds from your description that Canon decide to use some sort of new design that somehow locks in place. In the MkI as soon as the top screws were out and the SI unclipped, the shim(s) would drop down.
My \"u-shaped\' comment was off memory from a couple of years ago...they could very well have been square.
Look at this way - you now know more about your camera than you used to -- with no serious harm done.
thrice wrote:
EDIT god I wish I read that post before I started....... I guess I got them out without removing the screws... go me.
EDIT 2: oh crap I looked at that link what I removed wasn\'t the shims I guess... Well I\'ll take it to the canon service centre and see if they can fix it... sigh.
EDIT 3: ahh yes they are the shims, they sit under the superimposed indicator screen in the mirror box, between the indicator screen and the focusing screen.
Well that was extremely difficult, the shims are held in with some kind of voodoo. I got them out but they got bent I tried with my haoda screen and it appeared I\'d gone too far... I started sweating.... Then I put in my Ee-s screen and it\'s not perfect either... off to service centre.
I feel very unlucky and I\'m going to sleep before I go ruin some other part of my $4000 camera.
I\'ll post pictures of the shims tomorrow, but that upper area is slightly different in the 5D-II compared to the 5D, I tried gently shifting/pulling/twisting in every direction before my patience gave out and I just forcefully removed them. Their completely rectangular with all sorts of pointy bits, not \"U\" shaped unfortunately.
Dec 16, 2008 at 04:20 PM
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I tried with my haoda screen and it appeared I\'d gone too far... I started sweating.... Then I put in my Ee-s screen and it\'s not perfect either... off to service centre.