My 7D died on me.

I was hoping to never make one of these threads, but unfortunately my 7D gave up after only 46,000 shutter clicks. It's been good to me though and has never given me any problems before, but about a week ago I started to get constant Error 30 while doing burst shots with my final shot being an all black image. This tells me the shutter was sticking in the closed position. I did all the tips and tricks I could find but nothing worked. I know shutter life is never a guarantee but damn I was at least hoping for close to 100,000 before it gave up. Thankfully I just signed up for CPS a few months ago. Let's see how good that rush repair service is

Back to the ole' trusty XSi for the next few weeks.

Suck, Chris...hopefully they can get it back to you in happier shape! Bet you're glad you kept a backup

Bummer!! Do you shoot a lot outside, in temperature extremes? Just wondering, if you did.. would that contribute to a faster death.

Not good!
Lucky you kept the good old xsi - it is a great little camera

Snydremark wrote in post #14943366
Suck, Chris...hopefully they can get it back to you in happier shape! Bet you're glad you kept a backup

Yeah it's going to be real hard to go back to the Rebel though. Those control suck after using the 7D.

1Tanker wrote in post #14943396
Bummer!! Do you shoot a lot outside, in temperature extremes? Just wondering, if you did.. would that contribute to a faster death.

I'd say 90% of my photography is outside here in the desert but I can't say if that decreases the life of a camera or not. Last time I used the camera was to take Lightning photos in Bulb mode with multiple 2-3 minute exposures. Maybe that helped to kill it off.