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350D shutter button/power fault

Started Oct 21, 2014 | Discussions thread
Doug Pardee
Doug Pardee Veteran Member • Posts: 9,920
Re: 350D shutter button/power fault

GreenPig wrote:

I tried this http://martybugs.net/blog/blog.cgi/gear/bodies/Canon-350D-Lockup.html but the camera is working now anyway so not sure if it helped.

Did you replace that button battery with a new one? That little battery is the prime suspect any time an XT/350D starts behaving weirdly. Those batteries are only supposed to be good for a few years, and the old one is probably about dead.

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