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ROY
30th of April 2005 (Sat), 00:42
Can someone help?

My 20D has stopped working. Its 3 months old and yesterday it would switch on, focus, give access to menu but when the button was fully pressed it would not take a pic. The batteries I tried were fully charged and I also tried changing the CF and lens to no avail.:cry:
tim
30th of April 2005 (Sat), 00:49
Try putting the camera into manual focus with the switch on the lens, and try taking a photo with that. If it doesn't work report back and i'll think some more.
ROY
30th of April 2005 (Sat), 01:43
Thanks Tim, just tried that it did not work, I have just discovered other threads relating to this problem apparently its quite common.
tim
30th of April 2005 (Sat), 01:44
I guess it's autofocus not working, I wasn't aware that it was a widespread problem.
ROY
30th of April 2005 (Sat), 01:55
Autofocus appears to be working fine working.
Here is a link to the threads on freezing and lock-up
http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?threadid=55678
cjm
30th of April 2005 (Sat), 15:51
Whoa! Im not buying a 20D now. Thanks for the warning.
tim
30th of April 2005 (Sat), 17:58
Whoa! Im not buying a 20D now. Thanks for the warning.

Yes, every 20D is faulty and we're all lying about how much we like our cameras :rolleyes:
cjm
1st of May 2005 (Sun), 15:11
LOL I knew it! Its an entire Canon Conspiracy :)

Nah I am waiting for the one that will come out after the 20D. I've bought enough electronics that I paid a lot for only to have them drop in price a month or half a year down the road. So I can wait.
pcasciola
1st of May 2005 (Sun), 15:36
Roy, did you try disconnecting and reconnecting the battery grip?
ROY
1st of May 2005 (Sun), 16:15
Thanks for the replies.

I dont have battery grip - yet - maybe won't ever.

Apparently the firmware programme 1,4,0 and 1.5.0 were especially created upgrades to download into the 20d to overcome problems. The 1.5.0 software was specifically for my problem - shutter release failure - . so its obviously a well known ,well complained about problem if canon had to address it in such a way.My version of 20d has this software, so it should not have happened .I reinstalled the latest version 2.0.0 with no joy , so its off to the repairers then.

The camera had been working well and I was more than pleased, but now I will have absolutely no confidence in working with it waiting for it to crash, especially when the software designed to solve the problem doesn't work.
cjm
2nd of May 2005 (Mon), 00:02
Did it come with a one year warrenty? Maybe you can have Canon fix it for you since it sounds llike it is a Canon Manufacturing Defect? Or maybe the store you bought it from will replace it?
ROY
2nd of May 2005 (Mon), 02:30
Hi Chris, nice web site.

heres mine if your interested
www.solophotgraphy.co.uk (http://www.solophotgraphy.co.uk)

Its a public holiday weekend here so i'll take it to a canon repairers tomorrow.
Jesper
3rd of May 2005 (Tue), 07:40
LOL I knew it! Its an entire Canon Conspiracy :)

Nah I am waiting for the one that will come out after the 20D. I've bought enough electronics that I paid a lot for only to have them drop in price a month or half a year down the road. So I can wait.But if you buy the 50D (or whatever the 20D's successor is going to be called), the same thing will happen - it will drop in price after half a year or so. And I can assure you that there will be people complaining about all kinds of problems with the new camera.