Canon eos 400d/xti purchase

I just bought a canon eos 400d for €36,50 the flash is broken but the rest still works perfectly fine. Included are a charger, the manual and three battery's. Was this a good deal or could I have gotten a better dslr for the same price?

When you say the flash is broken, what's broken about it?

D148xZ wrote:

I just bought a canon eos 400d for €36,50 the flash is broken but the rest still works perfectly fine. Included are a charger, the manual and three battery's. Was this a good deal or could I have gotten a better dslr for the same price?

I think you did fine.  You would only use the popup flash for fill in and you can always use an external flash on the hot shoe if you want to do any serious flash photography.  My 350D is still going strong and continues to take excellent photos as my back up camera.

Enjoy your "new" purchase!

D148xZ wrote:

I just bought a canon eos 400d for €36,50 the flash is broken but the rest still works perfectly fine. Included are a charger, the manual and three battery's. Was this a good deal or could I have gotten a better dslr for the same price?

Is this some kind of joke? That is couple of beers, and i bet you would still be sober after that. Btw, in my country, only one for sale is 220 EUR (but it does include kit lens).

Btw, give it a good clean. I had all sort of problems with my 100D, until i finally cleaned "vents" where AF sensor is. Ok, AF still sucks on any point except center point, but i do get now 3/10 good focus, versus 9/10 failed focus on outer AF points, but i am addicted to opening lens wide, i shoot poor 50mm 1.8 wide open just to get FF look (and i get only soft photos ).

It arrived today, the flash shows absolutely no signs of life. I installed 400plus on it for some reason. My grandma gave me three of his old fd lenses, I saw that they were expensive so I thought that I might as well use them.

D148xZ wrote:

It arrived today, the flash shows absolutely no signs of life.

What do you mean by "no signs of life"? Does it refuse to pop up, or does it pop up and refuse to flash?

If it refuses to pop up, does nothing at all happen or does it make some clicking noises followed by ERR 05?

If it refuses to pop up and makes no noise, that's an easy fix:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dougpardee/133066175/

My grandma gave me three of his old fd lenses, I saw that they were expensive so I thought that I might as well use them.

Canon FD lenses won't fit on an EOS mount. You have to use an adapter. If you use an adapter without glass, you only get close-focus. If you use an adapter with glass, the cheap glass usually wrecks the image quality.

FD lenses work okay on mirrorless cameras with glass-less adapters, but honestly, the state of lens design and manufacture has moved so far ahead over the past 30-40 years that you'd probably do better with some cheap Chinese manual-focus EOS-mount lens.

Wow... That actually worked, thank you so much for your help. It is fully working again!

D148xZ wrote:

Wow... That actually worked, thank you so much for your help. It is fully working again!

Perfect, Doug ! This is why I like this forum