This probably can happen to anyone's camera but in my particular case it was a Canon - a Canon 7D
I went on the Internet and someone suggested taking out the little watch battery in the battery compartment that stores all of the state information for the camera. I actually didn't even know that battery existed so that was interesting to discover. Not the typical way I would like to find out about stuff like that but interesting none the less. Anyway, this did nothing too.
When I got back to the Golden State I called Canon support again and after the usual rigamarole of questions making sure a real battery is in the compartment and that I actually switched the right switch to turn things on they suggested I send it in. A week later it comes back and guess what the problem was? Drum roll please....
Sand.
Huh? Yes, sand. We took a vacation to Hawaii in the Summer and I guess sand got into the battery compartment and shorted the system. I have an electrical engineering degree and I had no idea sand had such power. Of course I barely got my degree but that's another story. I guess I've now figured out the difference between a professional camera like the Canon 1Ds
Anyway, before you send your camera into some repair shop and pay UPS exorbitant amounts of money for the privilege, please try to get one of those can's of air and blow into your battery compartment to try to blow sand out or take a vacuum cleaner to see if you can suck it up. I think this what the Canon repair people did since it didn't look like the fixed anything. I wish the tech support people at Canon would have suggested that so I could have fixed my camera myself and taken some pictures on my vacation. Despite what iPhone 4 users say, there is a slight difference in picture quality between a Canon 7D and an iPhone 4 -- just slightly.
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