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T3i dead after fist time filming
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hi, so since I'm not an active member of any photography forums I will direct my questions here. So 3 weeks ago on my last day off before work my crew calls me up to go hit some urban and film it, it was -20c and filmed off and on for 3 hrs or so and finished around 1am.
I got home and bagged up my lens and body and wrapped them in my jacket and left them in the garage until morning. Being 1 am and that I had to get up in 4 hrs, not thinking clearly and rushing I left my battery grip attached and batteries in and the camera on (this is how I found it 3 weeks after the fact, today) I'm not sure if it worked the next morning cause I never even dumped the card.
Anyway, I grabbed my camera (T3i i should add) and nothing, wont turn on in any shooting mode, tried with no battery grip and fresh battery, still nothing. Suggestions on what I should do??
I'll also add I'm running magic lantern, only on this one card, would it be advisable to put it on another card and try and turn it on?
I wouldn't mind taking it apart and checking for corrosion if there is common places that are known.
A repair manual or guide or even direction to a more appropriate forum would be much appreciated.
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apparently everything just turns into one big paragraph...
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how long were they in the cold for out in the garage? Just overnight or for 3 weeks?
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The garage is actually heated, but less then the house, and only over night
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how do your contacts inside the compartment look?
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I checked earlier and one (the tallest one) seems to have a little corrosion on it. I'm going to get some q tips and isopropyl tomorrow and try and clean it off. I hope it's that simple, I did have my knock off battery grip on it so their contacts might have been cheap metals
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magic lantern also could have some part of this. Take it out and place a new mem card without it in. Then put a new battery in. turn it on.
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I tired that, also and nothing
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I've checked google and can't find a disassembly guide for it anywhere
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Main boards are only 200 bucks. Dare I attempt to fix it myself?
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okay... got it fixed. narrowed it down to the cheap knock off battery grip as well as a card with ML on it.
after browsing online, I found everyone suggests to pull the battery, turn it on and hold the shutter release for 30 seconds and it finally started responding again.
Sure I should have left it at that, but I wanted to see if putting the battery grip would wield the same results; it did, wouldn't turn on again. So I pulled the battery and held the shutter release again.
Again, I tried with my ML card and it died again.
Its strange both the grip AND the card cause it to act like this, so needles to say I will be attempting to return the grip as well as reformatting my card and putting ML on again, hopefully that works as I do rather like the added features. If it doesn't work I'll remove ML completely.
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