Try to solve this :( (350d)

Hey!

Last sunday i got finally back on the circuit for some photo's! There was some fog in the air, but hey that doesn't stop me! Around 10-20 photo's went okay, well they looked bad.. In that time i was re-setting my camera..!

But now this.. suddenly my picture "lags" when i watch trough the seeker!

Let's say .. when i focus it. it DOES focus, it can take pictures.. But the object (pretty fast cars) Are lagging in my camera, even the picture "shoots" up, down. and back when I watch it trough the seeker.. This freaks me out, i tried this with my Canon iS lens and a Sigma telelens, both some problem..

One thing is, when i shut it down for let's say 15mins.. And I start shooting again.. first 3-5 photo's are no problem, then the lag starts again.


Am i up for a 40D(Or should i take another one for motorsports..)? Or is it fix-able...?

You are saying that your camera seems to become too slow after a few shots?

What do you mean by resetting? Did you remove your batteries (2) and waited a few minutes and put them back in?

Did you try doing a full format to your flash card in the computer after this started happening?

Try those and let us know.

Regards.
Vic

There have been a few thread of late where auto focus performance is impacted because of either dust on the mirror or a haze on the mirror. You might check your mirror for any obvious impediments. Also, you might try to put the camera in sensor cleaning mode and blow out the autofocus sensor as well. There might be some dust that has settled down there.

@new_user, i mean by resetting.. Removing the lens.. and putting it in my camera_bag and watch the race's.

@gjl711, there isn't late auto focus, it does focus.. even when its lagging and the picture shooting up and down.

Let's try these 2 things than. Copy all pictures from cf card to your pc. Format the card in the PC (using HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool). Make sure that it is selected the correct drive for you CF card. See if that fixes it. Since you are having trouble viewing pictures on the camera, I'm guessing that your CF card may be corrupted!

If not, remove both batteries (the big one and the little one) wait a few minutes and re-install the batteries.

Hopefully that will fix it.

Regards.
Vic

d1pst1ck wrote in post #5698019
...But now this.. suddenly my picture "lags" when i watch trough the seeker!

Let's say .. when i focus it. it DOES focus, it can take pictures.. But the object (pretty fast cars) Are lagging in my camera, even the picture "shoots" up, down. and back when I watch it trough the seeker.. This freaks me out, i tried this with my Canon iS lens and a Sigma telelens, both some problem..

By seeker do you mean viewfinder or the LCD screen on the back? If you mean the viewfinder are you saying the focus is taking time to lock or that the image itself is lagging/stuttering/jum​ping around.

If the latter, do you get the same thing happening if you turn IS off?

e-k

@new_user, that aint the problem! Is trough the viewfinder not the LCD Screen.

@E-K, I mean the second one yes, "image itself is lagging/stuttering/jum​ping" when i watch trough the viewfinder when pressing the shutterbutton half way down to focus it.

Same happen without a IS lens a 70-300 Telelens from sigma.

Seems like it needs a trip to Canon...

@evandavies, is it worthy to get it fixed? canon will look at the camera for 90€, if they dont find anything, its still 90€ for nothing.. Then if they can fix it, how much will it be?

Isn't a better option to hop over to the 40d?

d1pst1ck wrote in post #5701291
@evandavies, is it worthy to get it fixed? canon will look at the camera for 90€, if they dont find anything, its still 90€ for nothing.. Then if they can fix it, how much will it be?

Isn't a better option to hop over to the 40d?

repair quotes are free

Well, i got those quote's from the dealer!

Got a new 40d anyway Still i do wanna know what the problem is.

d1pst1ck wrote in post #5702377
Well, i got those quote's from the dealer!

Got a new 40d anyway Still i do wanna know what the problem is.

Well a 40D is nice. I'm still a little confused as to what exactly you are seeing. Were you using AI Servo or AI Focus?

e-k

d1pst1ck wrote in post #5702377
Well, i got those quote's from the dealer!
Got a new 40d anyway Still i do wanna know what the problem is.

Congrats on the 40D You will love it.
I guess the 350D is out of warranty?
Call your local Canon service centre and ask them if you can send it for a free evaluation. If they won't take it then you could open it up to see if there is something obvious tho it will probably never work again

this doesn't make sense. When you are looking through the viewfinder, the acualy physical viewfinder, you are saying the a fast car lags? DO you mean motion blur. I can't figure this one out, but see if you can figure this one out

@evandavies 350d is out off warranty! Tho i can call canon offcourse! Hmm.. weird that they say to me it's already 90€ just to check what is wrong. Won't open it, my mom doesn't like motorsports, so she will use it just for stills and bla bla :P

@Canon Soldier the whole image.. Not just one part, just the whole image i'm seeing trough the viewfinder.

@E-K tried them both.. Same stuff