My 1D mark II N failed

Alright, so I was happily shooting for my friend's gathering in the afternoon no problem with my 1D2N. Then just 15min before a school shoot (a band's passing out parade) my 1D2N decided to 'die'. There was this bright band in the photos and at the same spot for every photo like so:

Definitely a broken shutter Sorry to hear. Hope it comes back good as new and quickly from the Service Centre. I'd have them attend to the focusing screen issue too, just ask them for a general clean-up and everything.

Yep, it's a blown shutter

Ouch .. what was the shutter count?

168k +

Sorry to hear!

Just look at it this way...when you get it back all fixed, it'll be just about like new! Make sure they do a good cleaning and get you a good, accurate shutter count. My shutter count (with 1DCount) shows about 197K on it, so I'm waiting for the same thing to happen to mine. I'm sorry to hear about yours failing though! Good luck with repairs!

Why would a broken shutter make the focus screen drop down? I have not had a shutter fail yet, but this does not look like any of the imgaes I have seen of one that did. If the focus screen dropped, maybe the mirror didn't flip all the way up, and that's what caused the bright line.

Have you tried re-clipping the focus screen back up?

That looks pretty much like every shutter failure pic that I've seen. Similar to what mine looked like right before shutter replacement.

And I think it's pure bad coincidence about the loose focus screen bracket, but highly doubt one has anything to do with the other.

With any luck, I'll never see it first hand.

Ouch, that sucks.

canonloader wrote in post #9553652
With any luck, I'll never see it first hand.

With any luck, I'll see it on every camera I buy.... Just hopefully not for a very long time!