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Dropped my camera

nancyr84 — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 13:39:40 GMT

Help! My new puppy and my Canon 60D had a bit of a run in and the hotshoe bracket came off the camera. I cannot see how it attaches. I tried holding it on and the flash does fire. I hate to send the camera away to get fixed it’s over 5 years old. I do use the external flash often . I thought about trying to carefully glue it on , is that a crazy idea?

Re: Dropped my camera

kvbarkley — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 14:29:57 GMT

You really need to open the camera and look. It is held on by screws inside the camera. If those screws are rattling around loose they could cause some serious mischief.

iFixit has instructions to open up a 60D if your are so inclined.

Re: Dropped my camera

nancyr84 — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 14:58:01 GMT

I would definitely attempt to open camera up but looking at the different guides I don’t see any that apply. Is there a guide that would help me take top off where hotshoe is located ?

Re: Dropped my camera

jrhoffman75 — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 14:54:21 GMT

See this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_neI06o3c0

May give you guidance.

Re: Dropped my camera

nancyr84 — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 14:57:13 GMT

My 60D looks different on top, by the way I finally got my plug in installed , thanks!

Re: Dropped my camera

wq9nsc — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 15:06:23 GMT

It looks like the screws pulled through the lower part of the hot shoe mount; are they still in place on the camera if you carefully look under the hot shoe? If so get a replacement hot shoe, there is too much stress for any glue to provide a proper fix.

You will have to do some disassembly but the hot shoe should plug in with no soldering required.

Rodger

Re: Dropped my camera

jrhoffman75 — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 15:17:27 GMT

Here is assembly drawing for 1D Mark IV; yours is probably the same. Loks lke you may have stripped the threads. You could perhaps try a slightly larger screw. Canon used a thread lock compound as well.

Re: Dropped my camera

nancyr84 — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 15:20:36 GMT

Re: Dropped my camera

jrhoffman75 — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 16:31:45 GMT

Can’t see clearly; are threads showing or are there inserts in the body that the screws go into that pulled out.

Re: Dropped my camera

nancyr84 — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 16:06:58 GMT

There are 4 screws showing

Re: Dropped my camera

jrhoffman75 — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 16:30:56 GMT

So it looks like the screws pulled out of the body.

If you look at the 1D IV exploded view it doesn’t show anything inside the camera like nuts or a backing plate.

If you disassembled the part into the three pieces shown I think you could glue the plastic piece on around the contacts and then the larger metal piece to the plastic part, as well as coating the screws with glue and reinserting into the screw holes.

That’s what I would try if it was my camera. Otherwise it looks like you would need a new top body part.

Re: Dropped my camera

nancyr84 — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 17:13:20 GMT

I must have a part missing . All I have is the one metal one I showed in photo. Gotta go searching, sure hope puppy didn’t find it!

Re: Dropped my camera

jrhoffman75 — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 17:16:17 GMT

If you look closely you have two metal pieces assembled together. Look at the video I posted to see how to take apart.

Re: Dropped my camera

shadowsports — Sat, 24 Nov 2018 14:37:11 GMT

Black Friday Deals are here.. 60D.. bigger screws, glue? All good suggestions.

Here's mine:

Send that thing to heaven.

Time to upgrade.

Re: Dropped my camera

nancyr84 — Sat, 24 Nov 2018 15:01:08 GMT

That’s exactly what I’m thinking of! It’s 5 years old and I’m wondering if sending it to Canon would be worth it. I can still use it but no pop up flash , Camera thinks it has auxiliary flash on. I was thinking I could still use it on trips where I would not want to take a new camera. I wonder if the 80D is a good choice.

Re: Dropped my camera

jrhoffman75 — Sat, 24 Nov 2018 15:35:11 GMT

If you were happy with the 60 the 80D is even better.

Re: Dropped my camera

ebiggs1 — Sat, 24 Nov 2018 15:55:23 GMT

" I’m wondering if sending it to Canon would be worth it."

Call first, 1 (800) 652-2666, the 60D may not be supported any longer.

Re: Dropped my camera

arnauasitto — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 17:44:46 GMT

@nancyr84 wrote:
Help! My new puppy and my Canon 60D had a bit of a run in and the hotshoe bracket came off the camera. I cannot see how it attaches. I tried holding it on and the flash does fire. I hate to send the camera away to get fixed it’s over 5 years old. I do use the external flash often . I thought about trying to carefully glue it on , is that a crazy idea?

iFixit has instructions to open up a 60D if your are so inclined.

Re: Dropped my camera

RobertTheFat — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 18:51:36 GMT

@shadowsports wrote:
Black Friday Deals are here.. 60D.. bigger screws, glue? All good suggestions.

Here's mine:

Send that thing to heaven.

Time to upgrade.

Any event that did that much damage probably did other damage too. I say take Rick's advice.