topic Re: Light leak canon 6d in EOS DSLR & Mirrorless Cameras

Light leak canon 6d

Shanaus — Tue, 17 Oct 2017 11:43:27 GMT

I am in Indonesia and have what I believe is a shutter issue? Can you confirm it is a shutter issue and is this comon?

Re: Light leak canon 6d

TCampbell — Tue, 17 Oct 2017 14:32:28 GMT

Failing shutters are not exactly "common" ... but shutters do wear out over the life of a camera (most cameras seem to have a mean-time-between-failure of around 100,000 actuations ... with some cameras doing more like 150k or more). But a shutter failure, while rare, can happen at any time.

The pattern in your image does match what I would expect with a failure. The shutter "curtain" or "door" is actually a series of flexible blades that slightly overlap each other and slide up/down like window blinds. If one jams, it typically goes askew on an angle instead of remaining horiztonal and you end up with a spikey/wedge-shaped section of bright light much like you see in your image.

If you want to see a slo-motion of the shutter in actcion, you can see an example here, and you'll get a clear idea of how the shutter "curtains" work (they do not show a jammed shutter blade).

Re: Light leak canon 6d

Shanaus — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 04:35:07 GMT

Thank you.

Would you think it would be replaced or can be fixed via a service?

Someone suggested it maybe mould or bacteria on shutter blade?

Re: Light leak canon 6d

TCampbell — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 05:33:57 GMT

@Shanaus wrote:
Thank you.

Would you think it would be replaced or can be fixed via a service?

Someone suggested it maybe mould or bacteria on shutter blade?

Yes - Canon can take care of it. Contact their service and arrange to have your camera sent in.