canon recalls.

i was just curious, which bodies have had recalls by canon because of a manufacturer defect or flaw? are there any from nikon? reason i'm asking is because someone at my work told me almost all canon cameras have had at least one recall. keep in mind he shoots nikon.

IIRC the only Canon body with a recall is the current EOS 1D Mark III for its AF/submirror issue.

not true. they sort of recalled the 1D MKIII's for the AF issue, but thats all I know of.

i good example is the failure known as the 1D Mark III.

As far as I know, 1Dmk3 only.

thats what i thought. i wasnt sure because there is really know way to know. i guess someone is bias. just got my hands on a nikon d90, neat camera.

brianch wrote in post #6426307
thats what i thought. i wasnt sure because there is really know way to know. i guess someone is bias. just got my hands on a nikon d90, neat camera.

Sure there is. Just visit the various body pages on the Canon web site and look at the Service Notices. Then, to be fair, see if Noink has as much information available about their service notices.

i wonder if canon is going to foink up the 50D and 5D II.. i guess noone knows yet. i tested the d90 today for the whole day. seems to work pretty well. AF seems faster then the D80. But maybe it was because of the 18-200.

Why would they?
Doesn't make sense.
John

I had one of the first PowerShot A650 IS models last fall, and it was recalled for repair at the P&S Repair center located near Chicago.

Lot of sad stories around, If any company had that sort of record they would have gone out of business years ago.

There are probably hundreds of thousands of cameras made each year, in general manufacturing I've heard from various people in industry that they hope to keep defective products under 2%.

With the internet, we who receive one of those 2% make the loudest noise.

Think about it, if those who are really into their cameras, are Canon fans, there is a chance they might be on this forum, if five of maybe 100,000 people get bad copies of a new camera and they were on this forum or another, they would be the first to jump up and down about how Canon model XXX was a failure. Then someone would come on and declare they were going to buy an XXX but since there is such they seem to be a lemon they've decided to go with something else.

What other choice do we have, I for one was held back from getting the 24-70L 2.8 because of this talk, but there really were a lot of people on this forum who said they had heard about those problems. But everyone I know personally has great copies. So when I went to my store they said they had heard of those problems but in the years of selling them they have only had 3 problem 24-70's. I bought one, felt it was back focusing a little and swapped it for another that's fantastic. In truth though, at the same time I sent my camera body in for the same reason and now every thing is good.

I've read so many reports that the 100-400 in notoriously soft at 400 wide open. The only one I've ever used is very sharp-go figure!

Jannie wrote in post #6430104
I've read so many reports that the 100-400 in notoriously soft at 400 wide open. The only one I've ever used is very sharp-go figure!

+1. 100-400 at 400 wide open accounts for about 80% of my shots. No problems with softness at all.

brianch wrote in post #6426331
i wonder if canon is going to foink up the 50D and 5D II.. i guess noone knows yet. i tested the d90 today for the whole day. seems to work pretty well. AF seems faster then the D80. But maybe it was because of the 18-200.

Why would you wonder that?

Jannie wrote in post #6430104
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I've read so many reports that the 100-400 in notoriously soft at 400 wide open. The only one I've ever used is very sharp-go figure!

pknight wrote in post #6430523
+1. 100-400 at 400 wide open accounts for about 80% of my shots. No problems with softness at all.

I had all kinds of issues with my 100-400. Took several trips back to Canon until they got it right. Actually about %50 of all my gear has had at least one trip back to Canon for some issue. That's not a recall but it is an indication of their QC problems. To Canons credit, they have always worked the issue until it was fixed. Now I just always figure in 2 to 4 week down time as Canon gets it working correctly. I'm about to get a new body so I figure I have a 50%/50% change that I will be talking to Canon service once again.