My 70D will not shut off.

[kellyswanson]

My only recourse is to remove the external battery.  Please advise.

[RobertTheFat]

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@kellyswanson wrote:

My only recourse is to remove the external battery.  Please advise.

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"External battery"? Let me guess: It's in a 3rd-party battery grip?

[kellyswanson]

No- its a canon brand battery directly in the camera - no grip. I stated external battery as opposed to removing the internal clock battery. Its the only way I can get it to turn off by removing the battery. I have also tried factory reset of all settings. No luck.

[Peter]

I have only read about a dropped 7D with similar problem. A camera service man needed to fix the camera.

[lly3988]

Power on/off switch problem ?? Send it to Canon service center if resetting to factory default won't work.

Check out other discussions regarding similar problem of the othe brand camera.

http://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/2889465

Good luck.

[TCampbell]

The switch is a "soft" switch in that it mere tells the camera you want to turn it off, but does not cut power. (Normally the camera will invoke a sensor cleaning cycle it powers off.)

This may be a loose connection inside the camera, but you would need to send the camera in for service.  There won't be any reset option to correct it.