Service.

[Paul]

My 70D is now 10 months old, and has occasionally overexposed an image or 10, so it's gone in to Wilkinson's Cameras in Preston and will get a full service, check up, and a sensor clean.


It's also very good service from the shop too, as for the 3 weeks (roughly) that my 70D will be away with Canon, they have kindly loaned me a 5D MkII for the duration (which has to be looked after really well it goes without saying) so for a while, you'll see a few macro's back on the full frame format.


Paul.

[JohnP]

Sounds like good service from the shop Paul...  I'm surprised your 70D needs servicing after only 10 months, my 60D is two and a half years old and has done about 12,500 shutter operations and it's all working well so far.

[bugmeister]

Definitely a good service from the shop as well, although they will send it off to a Canon service centre (6 in England and the nearest to you is in Stoke on Trent) so three weeks isn't bad at all.

 

I'm with John on being a bit surprised at your 70D needing a service so soon. ok my 5D mkII is a level up from the 70D but I'm currently on 55K shots in 5 years and it's going fine. I do get the occasional overexposure but that is normally down to the button pusher not getting settings right.

 

Please do let us know how it performs when you have it back and whether there's much difference. I had a lens serviced a couple of years ago and it came back better than when I first got it, although it was very good originally.

[Paul]

It is unusual, but it probably just needs recalibrating.

 

Even the best things can go wrong.

 

As an example - here are two sets of two images, taken moments after each other, which the exif shows the settings were identical for each pair.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paul.

[bugmeister]

Very odd. Here's hoping they get it sorted

[JohnP]

Paul   were you using a tripod, I can't believe these are hand held, the camera hasn't moved even a fraction between shots. The images are also very pixelated... is that the correct word.

[Paul]

Yes, tripod mounted.

 

I reduced the pixel size down to the very lowest setting - if I posted my usual edit, you'd see them looking perfectly rendered, apart from the over exposure of course!.

 

 

Paul.

Edited June 23, 2014 by Paul

[Paul]

Like this John:

 

 

 

Paul.