Canon 350D repairs [Archive] - Talk Photography

mobilevirgin

15-07-2007, 22:01

1st day on holiday (on Skye) and my 350D died on me :thumbsdown: . I was getting error99 for every shot I took. No amount of lens / battery / CF card changing has cured it. I strongly suspect that the sensor has blown in some way. So it needs to go for repair.

I've found this lot on the web, who appear to be pukker: Colchester Camera Repair Service (http://www.camera-repair.co.uk/index.htm)

Can anyone either recommend them, or put me off and steer me somewhere else.

Many thanks in advance

Jimmy_Lemon

15-07-2007, 22:05

Take it you cleaned the contacts on the camera and lenses, that seems to be what causes my error99s

scraggs

15-07-2007, 22:07

I could tell you a complete horror story that happened to a friend when he used them, but I took a chance and tried them myself, only because they are 10 mins up the road and they done a good job on my 400D but didn't fix the dead pixel on the lcd.
I would use them again though

Slipper-one

15-07-2007, 22:16

mobilevirgin

15-07-2007, 22:33

Take it you cleaned the contacts on the camera and lenses, that seems to be what causes my error99s

Oh, yes. I did that too. And held my breath for 10 seconds. And did a rain dance. And sold my first born. And sacrificed a goat. And ...

Thanks for the thought, but I did a reasonably thorough web search yesterday when we got home and tried various of the suggestions that cropped up on a number of forums. Nothing seems to shift it.

A throw away comment from my g/f ("You should have had a spare") has just been interpreted by me as: "Why don't you just order a 30D?" Seriously, though, we've spent some time in Africa recently and I've always been concerned that conditions there are not very camera friendly, so a back up does seem to make sense.