Hi everyone - hope this is in the right place...
A couple of weeks ago, my EOS-5 developed a fault. Worked perfectle one day, ran maybe 3 rolls of film through without a hiccup. Next day, checking camera before another day's shooting, when switched on, the camera showed the flashing empty battery symbol. Assuming i'd left the camera switched on and flattened the battery I removed the 2cr5 and replaced with a sealed new example. Same problem. Took out multimeter and "old" battery was 6.1v, new one 6.22v - both well within spec. Resorted to the manual, to find that the battery flashing was a sort of catch-all error message - one of those "we don't know what's wrong with it, so send it to our service centre along with one arm and one leg (non-returnable) and we'll tell you it's broken" errors. After checking the EOS Documentation project website (among others) the only recomendation they had was to remove the battery for a week and see if it reset itself. I checked thes morning (after 2 weeks) and it's still doing the battery-flash-boogie! Anyone got any ideas, or even a source of the service manuals for this camera I could d/l and have a look at? I've managed to effect one solution - bought a replacement EOS-3 body
- but would like to get the EOS-5 working if I could.
Obviously, the nice people at Canon would be happy to have a look at it, but even the shipping costs of sending it away would be prohibitive on a £30 from fleabay camera body. It just goes against the grain to chuck it away, when it could just be a loose connection somewhere.
Sorry to be cheeky, and make my first real post a request for help, hopefully i'll be able to put a little back into the community somewhere along the line
A couple of weeks ago, my EOS-5 developed a fault. Worked perfectle one day, ran maybe 3 rolls of film through without a hiccup. Next day, checking camera before another day's shooting, when switched on, the camera showed the flashing empty battery symbol. Assuming i'd left the camera switched on and flattened the battery I removed the 2cr5 and replaced with a sealed new example. Same problem. Took out multimeter and "old" battery was 6.1v, new one 6.22v - both well within spec. Resorted to the manual, to find that the battery flashing was a sort of catch-all error message - one of those "we don't know what's wrong with it, so send it to our service centre along with one arm and one leg (non-returnable) and we'll tell you it's broken" errors. After checking the EOS Documentation project website (among others) the only recomendation they had was to remove the battery for a week and see if it reset itself. I checked thes morning (after 2 weeks) and it's still doing the battery-flash-boogie! Anyone got any ideas, or even a source of the service manuals for this camera I could d/l and have a look at? I've managed to effect one solution - bought a replacement EOS-3 body
- but would like to get the EOS-5 working if I could.Obviously, the nice people at Canon would be happy to have a look at it, but even the shipping costs of sending it away would be prohibitive on a £30 from fleabay camera body. It just goes against the grain to chuck it away, when it could just be a loose connection somewhere.
Sorry to be cheeky, and make my first real post a request for help, hopefully i'll be able to put a little back into the community somewhere along the line
