Recently my canon 1d mk1 died on me. It was a good faithful camera that served me well during my course of study and my work experience work. I was just at the a-league soccer taking some images when it decided to stop working. Well at first I thought it was just one of those usual stupoid canon errors I get, but then when i pushed the trigger button down the unit would turn off for a few seconds and power back up. I thought, being the faithful work horse that it is, I moght as well get it fixed. So I took the unit down to the local service center being told, “yeah its serviceable”, and thought nothing off it. A few days later the service center rang me up and told me that it would be $1400AUS to repair, I nearly fell off my chair. I decided not to get the unit repaired, and hopefully one day on ebay another unit, cheap enough will come up, when I have the money to purchase. I really liked the 1d mk1 for the pure reason that I could do flash sync at 1/500th sec, which was great for basketball, that I shot for my local paper. The paper only every publishes at two mega pixels, so I never worried about it being only four megapixels. I just needed to frame right. I know newer camera’s don’t need flash now with higher, brighter iso range’s, but there out of my budget, and I am still studying, so no income to just go and buy a new unit.
Anyone got a spare 1d mk1 there not using.
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