I love to take pictures, and because of that enjoyment I bought a really nice 35mm camera a few years ago. \u00a0 It is a grey market Canon EOS 5 slr – grey market because of the +\/- f-stop dial in the viewfinder. \u00a0 The camera focuses where you look, by bouncing a tiny led beam off your eye and focusing where you are looking. \u00a0 It works better if you don’t wear glasses, but it still works pretty well for me anyway. \u00a0 For a long time, I just used the USM 28-105 lens that I bought with the camera body, but recently I added a USM 75-300 lens as well. \u00a0 On to the repair story…<\/p>\n
I was taking pictures inside an auditorium, using ISO-800 film (not really my favorite) and the control dial stopped working. \u00a0 This is a known problem on this type of Canon 35mm SLRs; the control dial internals will come loose and prevent the dial from turning. \u00a0 Sometimes the dial turns but has no detent stops to hold it in the chosen position – this is what happened to my camera. \u00a0 Damn. \u00a0 I had read about this before, but I had apparently been lucky up to this point. \u00a0 The camera has never been dropped or even handled roughly – there is not a single scratch on the camera body. \u00a0 Despite that careful use, the camera still failed and a repair was needed.<\/p>\n
With a lot of googling and reading forum posts from other folks unlucky enough to share my dilemma, I found a place that would make the repair. \u00a0 Several posters pointed to Steve at Camera Clinic<\/a>. \u00a0 The repair price was very reasonable, he gives a guarantee with the work, and he turned the repair around in a couple of days. \u00a0 Very responsive via email and the telephone, I recommend that you contact him for camera repairs. \u00a0 It’s great to recommend someone without having to add all kinds of disclaimers and conditions, isn’t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I love to take pictures, and because of that enjoyment I bought a really nice 35mm camera a few years ago. \u00a0 It is a grey market Canon EOS 5 slr – grey market because of the +\/- f-stop dial in the viewfinder. \u00a0 The camera focuses where you look, by bouncing a tiny led … <\/p>\n