Common Malfunctions
What can cause malfunctions?
- Shooting conditions and environment
- Power usage of components
- Accessories used (battery pack, lens, flashes etc.)
- Static electricity
- Other unknown factors
What types of malfunctions are encountered during travel?
Lens
- Failure to focus
- Focusing is not sensitive
- Zoom is not smooth
- AF inaccuracy
- Dust settles on the lens’ interior
- Blurred shots
Digital Camera
- Lens error
- Camera does not start up
- LCD appears blurred or has bright spots
- Lens iris does not open
- Flash does not fire sometimes
Battery
- Power depletes fast
- Frequent low battery prompt
- Failure to charge - indicator turns green after charging for a few minutes, indicates battery is depleted after battery is inserted
Memory Card
- Memory card pins are bent
- Memory card pins need to be checked
- Memory card “BUSY” is displayed
- Incomplete Memory card pins
- After shooting and playback, screen does not show display until battery is removed
EOS Camera
- Shutter button cannot be pressed
- Bright dots appear on the CMOS sensor
- Dust settles on the CMOS sensor, needs cleaning
- LCD display is blurred, blank or has banding
- LCD has bright dots
- LCD leaks light
- LCD flickers when rotated
- Flash does not fire sometimes
- External flash does not fire
- Defective flash synchronization
- Camera fails to autofocus
- Camera does not start up
- Shots are blurred
- Firmware updates