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Posted on Sep 28, 2007

Digital rebel / SLR photos are nearly all black

When taking a photo, the shutter all of a sudden slows and the picture is nearly all black. Not sure how to fix this problem.

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If the camera still "operates normally" with recorded pictures while they are all black, you try to select CMOS Cleaning to see if the shutter really opens or not. If not, a plastic lever operates the first set of curtains had broken. This could be common for all plastic shutter except EOS 1 series which use metal.

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