vanessa_fulcher

<p>I have had numerous issues with my 5D MkII...none with this line. However, I thought I'd just share that I saw this same problem over a year ago while working at a wedding chapel in Vegas. We shoot with quantum battery packs and 580 exIIs attached to the 5Ds... HOWEVER... after seeing this line we determined that the battery pack could not be actually placed on the camera flash bracket under the camera (these were the older quantums) because the sensors were picking up noise from them. When we started wearing the quantums on our hips, the line went away... just FYI.</p>

<p>I purchased my 5D MkII in the spring and finally received it about a month ago. I am a Las Vegas Wedding Chapel photographer... meaning some days I shoot 8 weddings... over 1,000 shots a day...outdoors and indoors. Indoors we have 3 chapels. The other photographers and I that shoot Canon have all been shooting with the older 5Ds and with either the 24-70 or 24-105 lenses. We have tested many different settings and finally found that shooting with speedlight 580 exII that we would shoot ISO 640, 60th shutter speed, f4 with internal comp up 1, neutral setting, 4000K... trying to neutralize color, exposure, etc... to get even results between all of us shooting. THEN... I got my new 5D. I knew that it would be different... but I thought for the better! I tried these same settings and they were SOOOO dark one minute and then COMPLETELY overblown the next.... doing the same thing (metering, bouncing flash, etc.) that I have been doing with the old 5D for over a year. That was my first problem. THEN... 3 DAYS INTO USING THIS NEW CAMERA... I leaned in to shoot a limo shot and the entire viewfinder lit up... all 8s, ever meter bar showing, etc... the viewfinder was completely unreadable. At this point I called Canon and then had to send it in for repair. They found that the pcb assembly was faulty. Now I've had the camera back for 2 days and last night I'm in the middle of a shoot and it just won't shoot. The lens is focused, red light blinks, and then NOTHING! I press the shutter button, red light flashes that it's focused and then NOTHING! At first I thought perhaps it was the lens so I changed out lenses and again NOTHING! I had to completely switch out cameras for the rest of the shoot. After the shoot I went back to the new 5D to test it out again and find out what was going on.... then it shot. I AM SOOOOO FRUSTRATED that I have what is supposed to be this great new camera and in the past month I've not even been able to shoot 5 days with it without problems and/or having it in Canon's hands! If anyone has suggestions for what I should do, things I should consider... PLEASE HELP! At least after reading this post I now know that at least I'm not the only one with the metering issues.</p>