…just hung up again. Again, not long after live view. No response even to on-off switch: nothing happens and top LCD remains lit. And again, it needed the battery removed to start responding to anything. Worrying, and as a wedding shooter, this would stop me (a hang could theoretically very easily corrupt the disk).
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This must be a problem Canon can fix under warranty. That sort of repeated hang isn’t a software glitch – it must be a hardware issue.
Hopefully Canon Canada are trained on the 7D already.
In Bangkok I am lucky because the Canon Thailand office is close by and they fix things in a couple of days for a reasonable cost. In the States I had to Fed Ex my camera to Los Angeles and they took several weeks to return it.
But see http://bkkphotographer.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/delighting-you-always/
Could be hardware, sure. Though when it’s not responding that could also be software: everything ni these cameras (even the on-off switch) is software driven. In any case, I am CPS registered. But I’ll wait until they’ve sported out these issues. Shame that they did not get there by themselves though!