Archive for July, 2008
Details on what happened to the Rebel, and how to fix it.
In essence, this is what happened, though the spring looks like it’s in the right place, just the pin is gone.
It’s a cheap repair, at least once you’ve done 30 steps of disassembly of something that’s probably not meant to be disassembled. It’s $200+ from Canon. And another view from someone else who had the same problem.
And, I have this sneaky suspicion that once the thing is all apart, this IR filter removal mod would not actually be that hard to do. I mean, the hard part is getting the camera apart and back together again. And an IR camera would be cool.
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Fun, hot, less people due to a whooping cough scare, but the kids had fun.
Unfortunately, my digital rebel met it’s end, from a design flaw in the mirror part of the shutter assembly. A pin sheared off, and now the autofocus mirror blocks the sensor through part of the exposure. I was hoping to not have to replace it till I bought a whole lot of other gear, but sometimes the equipment doesn’t listen to the plan.
And one past the last good image:
Eric’s Hospice for Wayward Birds
1 hour.
2 glass doors.
3 little birds.
All hit the glass, all survived after being really shaky for a while. They could perch rather quickly, but flying took a good 15 minutes before they were ready to launch. Given my previous experiences with cats and injured birds, I made sure that they were off the ground during this process. I put the first one on the perch of the hummingbird feeder. He wasn’t quite close enough to feed. The second, I held and tried to feed it a little sugar water from the feeder. It was holding on to my wedding ring as hard as it could, then fluttered to the branch where it sat for a few. The last one just got a branch, and no food, as we only really feed the hummingbirds.
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