550d mode dial

my 550d mode dial as been a pain since i bought the camera a year ago,i take a lot of wildlife pics which means a lot of moving about,i usually keep the dial on tv mode,my problem is the dial moves itself usually to manual sometimes to p,today i missed out on 2 bird shots both with the settings moving to manual and a 1/13 sec which ened up with blurred shots,is there any way to stop this ?

Have you figured out how or what is moving the dial? Is it your case or the way you grab the camera? This has never happened to me, I just checkd and the detents on my dial are strong and it actually takes two fingers to move it. It obviously can't move itself so something is doing it, goal is to figure that out and correct the problem.

sometimes when i turn my 550d on i accidentally turn the mode dial also, just gotta watch out for it.

Having the mode dial on the same side as the shutter release can pose that problem. I've only accidentally bumped my mode dial once, but its bound to happen I suppose.

That's a strange problem. It takes quite an effort to turn the mode dials on mine. An accidental bump would never cause it to turn. Perhaps turn resistance decreases after extensive use of the dial.

Little bit of gaffer tape should solve that problem.

rpaul wrote in post #13470055
Little bit of gaffer tape should solve that problem.

Just what I was going to say.