Anyone ever experience this problem?

[akimartymar]

Last night I was doing a wedding and just before the ceremony I was setting up my cameras for the lighting in the church. I have 2 cameras with a battery grip on each. When I went to set up my second camera, I went to adjust the manual settings. I turned the dial to set the shutter speed and noticed it went slower when I was trying to get faster. I turned the dial the other direction and again it went to a slower shutter speed. No matter which direction I went the shutter speed slowed down until I got to "bulb". I tried AP setting. Same thing happened to the aperture. I tried TV, same again. I ended up having to shoot it program mode because I couldn't get the settings I wanted. Today I messed with my cameras to figure out the problem and it was the battery grip. I took the grip off and moved it to the other camera and it had the same problem. Now why would a battery grip cause the camera's dial to work like this? It doesn't make any sense to me.

[Breezy]

Oh that sucks.
I hope that your pics turned out ok

[bondarnes]

Must be a Canon thing.

[akimartymar]

Originally Posted by bondarnes

Must be a Canon thing.

Ha ha!!!! That's a low blow Don. BTW, nice pic of you and the misses on the back of the TPA magazine (I think that's the magazine I saw it on.)

[Bill]

Maybe the grip was sending too much juice to the camera and messing up the circuitry.

If the in-camera battery is supposed to cut out when the grip is on, maybe it didn't and too much juice was sent through the circuitry.



Bill

[Daniel Bates]

Originally Posted by Bill

If the in-camera battery is supposed to cut out when the grip is on, maybe it didn't and too much juice was sent through the circuitry.

On all the cameras I've used, there's not a battery inside when the grip is on (the grip extends into the battery compartment).

[akimartymar]

Originally Posted by Daniel Bates

On all the cameras I've used, there's not a battery inside when the grip is on (the grip extends into the battery compartment).

As is this one. The only batteries available are the 2 inside the grip. I've never seen a grip that would attach with a battery still in the camera. The good thing is I thought that it was the camera. At least the grip is much cheaper to replace. It had a one year waranty, but that year was up 2 weeks ago. I still trying to see about getting it replaced though.

[steckler]

Sounds like dirty contacts between the grip and the camera. Since it happened on a second body, take a look at the contacts on the grip itself. Are they dirty? Mis-aligned? Broken?

Is the dial you're talking about on the grip or the body? or both dials did the same thing?

[Arnor]

Martin,

No idea, but if you have a voltmeter, you could check the grip to see if it's putting out the same voltage as a good one. If the batteries in it are removable/replacable, I'd check the batteries invididually and see if they've gone bad. I can't imagine battery grips being complicated machinery<g> so the only thing I could think of is the output voltage gone haywire...

Best regards,

[akimartymar]

The dial that I was using was on the camera. I also swapped the battery inserts to make sure it wasn't the actual batteries. I do have a voltmeter and may see if I can detect anything. I have already ordered a new one though since I have another wedding next weekend and need a grip.

[dtscds]

No real idea what could be wrong, but , did you try setting the shutter speed with the dial on the grip? Also, did you try turning the grip off while it was still attached? Like I said, no real ideas but these are things I would try.
It's like what would happen if my car broke down on the highway. I would get out and lift the hood without any idea what I was looking at/for. If I pull the hood up and don't see a giant on/off switch that's flipped the wrong way I've pretty much exhausted my mechanical investigation skills...

[srdanz]

Probably not what happened to you, but I had similar problem with bg-e2 before. The wheel on the grip was stuck half-way between the two normal positions (how can I explain this, when you try to rotate the dial on the grip, it has a bunch of discrete positions. I had it somehow get stuck between the two 'legal' positions).

The same wheel on the camera would not behave as expected. The thumbwheel worked, but it took the role of the main wheel...

It all came back to normal after I moved the dial on the grip again.

What does the wheel on the grip do when you rotate it? Same as the one on camera?

Good luck!

[bondarnes]

Originally Posted by akimartymar

Ha ha!!!! That's a low blow Don. BTW, nice pic of you and the misses on the back of the TPA magazine (I think that's the magazine I saw it on.)

Thanks. That's my first wife. We've only been married 41+ years. Next issue we are being promoted to the front cover.

Did you ever figure out your camera problem?