Ok, I have been rather poor on updating you all on what is going on. Here goes it, then. A few weeks back, I was trying to take shots off the roof of my building. I had my camera on the tripod well away from the edge, and was pointing it upwards to try for some star shots. It's not easy trying to spot stars through the viewfinder in the middle of a bright city, even being 17 floors up. Well, I dropped something I was holding and stepped away to try to pick it up. In a perfect example of Murphy's Law, a strong gust of wind blew up when I was not a foot or three from the tripod.
Before I could turn around and grab the tripod, it had fallen over, my camera falling to the cement bricks that cover the patio on the buildings roof. I tried hard to figure out what was wrong, spent several days trying to see if I could diagnose the issues I was seeing, the messages given, and when I still could find no information I reached out for help from Tim Hellsten, a fellow local photographer and someone who has been dealing with Canon DSLRs a lot longer.
He confirmed the nature of the message I was getting, and advised I should take it to Precision Camera Repair in the city here, and see if they could at least find out what is wrong. Well, this past Thursday I heard back from them and they said the camera would need to go off to Canon, as the MDU, which is apparently a major circuit board inside the camera, is not working. I can still take pictures with the camera, or I could when I last had the camera in my possession, so my plan now, since $400 to repair is as much as a replacement body will cost, is just not worthwhile.
I have some pictures I have already taken which I am working to process and post to the gallery, and will continue to make the best of the camera I have and the pictures I can get out of it while I save up to replace the camera, maybe even getting a nice black body (the old one was a unsightly silver) and maybe a battery grip while I am at it. So, there i where I am at now, and you all know where I stand. If you have any interest in donating to help me get new camera, feel free to donate on geekblog.net.
