1D MK II shutter replacement

did a quick blog during shutter replacement & IR conversion of my 1D MK II a couple of years back (camera still functional...)
see: http://homepages.ihug.​co.nz …1D%20MK%20II%20​repair.htm

Wow, the fine soldering would hold me back. Good job!

Would this be the same procedure for a 1ds Mark 2?

Thank you for your blog, have to add this to my Photo DIY Ressource - probably I get enought time this Christmas vaccation to make updates.

I have done a IR conversion on my EOS Rebel XT, but I am happy that my shutters all work well.

mjww wrote in post #17327564
Would this be the same procedure for a 1ds Mark 2?

I've had a look thru the 1Ds MKII partslist and there isn't anything that looks different, obviously the sensor/mirror-box & prism is going to be larger but the components themselves look the same. The 1D MK II shutter and the 1Ds MK II shutter is actually the same part...

That's really pretty cool that you can do that, I have a hard time just inserting my cards. heheh

Also, I know a guy that had to 'trade-up' to Canon because they told him when he was wanting his shutter fixed on his 1Ds mkII that they no longer have the shutters to do a replacement. (Or, don't do them anymore for that camera) He ended up just going with 2 5DmkIII's. He is a professional photographer and had the Canon Service Gold Plan, (or whatever it is called) and they still wouldn't do it. He had 2 1D's, one was a 1Dn mkII, and another was a 1Ds mkII. I guess that there may be some shutters out there that one might find to do what y'all have done, but probably not many, although, I am sure that the cameras themselves might be fairly cheap now to use one from there, if one had to bring their own camera back to life.

I really like the idea of what is going on here though, I wish I had the guts AND the brains to do something like that. heheh

Randy