RIP 350D?

[Alison]

I was out and about taking photos this afternoon in the snow with my Canon 350D and it seems to have died. My first thought is that something important has got damp but following is a list of the symptoms if anyone can help:

Screen is working and displaying no error messages
Shutter isn’t functioning at all (I’ve tried firing it with the remote too)
Change of lens makes no difference
I can change aperture and shutter speed but wasn’t able to at all when it first went kaput. That was intermittent when I first got home an hour ago but it's gradually improved and now seems fine
ISO, WB, menus etc. can all be changed and settings are displayed on the screen

I put a polythene bag over the camera while I was out but a few big snowflakes still managed to land right on top of it and melt before I had chance to dab them away.

I’ve removed the lens and put the body face down on a tissue in a dry place (ambient temperature – ought it to be somewhere warmer, like close to a radiator?). Any ideas would be most welcome.

 

[wack61]

warmest place in the house is usually the airing cupboard, sounds like it may have just been too cold for it

 

[RichardC27]

Sounds like cold to me too. My 40D had a mild strop last week after it had been out in the cold for a couple of hours.

 

[Alison]

....sounds like it may have just been too cold for it

Sounds like cold to me too.

But it was warm today in relative terms. The camera has never failed me at far lower temperatures, like -20 (I've spent much of the winter in the Austrian alps) and it was only -3 here today :shrug: