There's a bug in my 5D

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This evening I was messing around with my 5D when I notcied some dust on the focusing screen - moving dust! As I looked at it I could make out a very small oval with tiny attenna moving around slowly.

Quick inspection revealed it behind the focusing screen- behind the focusing screen (it was able to fit inside the focusing points).

A bit of hard work with the rocket blower seems to have dislodged him - hope he's fallen out....

Now I'm assuming that there is not much for a bug to eat inside a 5D, even one so tiny. So I hope that if he's still there he'll soon stave and not fall anywhere he shouldn't. Hopefully he's been blown free and living a happy life somehere in my carpet.
 
So that's what they're called - I had one in my PC screen; thought my eyes were going funny when I saw it.

Just wonder if it's a shutterbug..............:exit:
 
I'm assuming you all know that the term 'bug' in a computer programme does litterally come from a physical bug and that when a system crashed it was when a bug got between the hard disc(k) and the read/write head. There used to be a tiny gap between head and disk that caused the head to 'fly' above the disk due to the passing air between the components and when a bug got into the assembly it jammed between the two items and caused said 'crash', which is why in olden days computer rooms were very restricted access places. End of history lesson :)

Matt
 
So true - someone once told me that working in IT in tropical climates can sometimes be risky as poisonous critters sometimes choose homes in computer cases. I did once find mouse's nest in a clients PC - it had a ball of foil that was shorting out the mainboard.

Must admit I'd never considered a rocket blower a debugging tool before.

Shame it wasn't a dust mite - could have helped with sensore cleaning.
 
MatBin said:
I'm assuming you all know that the term 'bug' in a computer programme does litterally come from a physical bug and that when a system crashed it was when a bug got between the hard disc(k) and the read/write head. There used to be a tiny gap between head and disk that caused the head to 'fly' above the disk due to the passing air between the components and when a bug got into the assembly it jammed between the two items and caused said 'crash', which is why in olden days computer rooms were very restricted access places. End of history lesson :)

Matt
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Bit of an urban myth apparently. In 1947, long before hard drives had been invented and computers were huge electromechanical things, engineers at Harvard were amused to find an actual bug (a moth) blocking a relay. The terms bug and debug for a fault and the fix were already in use in mechanical engineering long before this. :geek:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bug
 
If the bug re-appears try putting the camera in a darkened room with a strong light nearby as they tend to crawl towards the light. If that doesn't do the trick -just appreciate the entertainment value. :D

Dumpimg your bag on the floor, particularly a carpeted one, is a good way of picking up these bugs, but you can get 'em whatever you do.
 
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MatBin said:
I'm assuming you all know that the term 'bug' in a computer programme does litterally come from a physical bug and that when a system crashed it was when a bug got between the hard disc(k) and the read/write head. There used to be a tiny gap between head and disk that caused the head to 'fly' above the disk due to the passing air between the components and when a bug got into the assembly it jammed between the two items and caused said 'crash', which is why in olden days computer rooms were very restricted access places. End of history lesson :)

Matt
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Not quite. The term bug did come from a hardware fault back in time (in the 1940s ) but it wasn't to do with a bug being between the hard drive head and the platter. This was way back in the time of core memory and the like when a bug inside the core memory caused it to change state.

The stuff about hard drives has nothing to do with the bug term. Heads still float over the tops of platters even today just like they did back when IBM invented the disk drive back in the late 1950s. The term crash comes from head crash which IS in relation to disk drives. Desktop Hard drives have run in a vacuum since their introduction in 1980.
 
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I've also had these in my monitors and had one crawling across the screen as I was trying to work ! They can be very annoying and difficult to shift.
 
eos1 said:
I've also had these in my monitors and had one crawling across the screen as I was trying to work ! They can be very annoying and difficult to shift.
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I just left the ones in my monitor alone and eventually they vanished from sight - I think the heat from the LCD (and/or lack of food) kills them off. The worst months seem to be July-September.
 
CT said:
Dumping your bag on the floor, particularly a carpeted one, is a good way of picking up these bugs, but you can get 'em whatever you do.
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As we speak, there are at least 50 of them (dead) on the window sill in this room. Hence my camera bag is in a bin liner in a cupboard.
 
MatBin said:
I'm assuming you all know that the term 'bug' in a computer programme does litterally come from a physical bug and that when a system crashed it was when a bug got between the hard disc(k) and the read/write head. There used to be a tiny gap between head and disk that caused the head to 'fly' above the disk due to the passing air between the components and when a bug got into the assembly it jammed between the two items and caused said 'crash', which is why in olden days computer rooms were very restricted access places. End of history lesson :)

Matt
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I'd heard that it was because a bug got stuck in a vaccuum tube ...
 
Strange coincidence but my girlfriend found a bug inside her 5d when we were on holiday.
Seemed to be in the viewfinder or something.
She was suitably disconcerted by the appearance of wildlife within her camera so we tried to sort it in the middle of Milan, which of course just made the inside of her camera manky so upon our return she put it in for a clean and a new focus screen - damaged a while ago when it dropped down and was hit by the mirror or something - and the little guy hasn't been seen since.
 
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