Digital SLR for sale

[ewx]

I've bought a new camera. Does anyone want to buy my old one? Now sold.

It's a Canon EOS 350D. Specifications. In short: a very capable consumer digital SLR from a few years back.

From the original kit:

• EOS 350D body
• Body cap
• EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 II USM lens (almost identical to this one)
• Canon NB-2LH battery
• Charger
• USB cable (but I recommend you use a card reader instead)
• TV cable
• Manual
• Software CDs (you will probably want to downloaded updated versions from Canon)

Extras:

• Equivalent 3rd party battery
• 1GB Sandisk compact flash card
• 256MB compact flash card
• RS60-E2 cable remote
• UV filter to fit lens above (if you believe in that sort of thing)

(The remote and extra battery are not compatible with my new camera, hence their inclusion here.)

Condition:

• Bought mid 2005
• About 20,000 shutter activations
• Eyecup is getting loose
• Firmware version is 1.0.3
• Sensor has been cleaned with a blower once
• Some dirt on mirror (?or focussing screen) - does not appear in photos!
• Lens slightly noisy when zooming

If you're interested, make me an offer. Come round and try it out if unsure.

I also have a broken PowerShot SD40 and associated gubbins (charger, two batteries, some cabling) if anyone is interested in that (probably for free).

Comments

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Hard data seems difficult to come by.

Number of shutter cycles seems to be the most popular number to measure and someone's been collecting data here (http://www.olegkikin.com/shutterlife/canon_eos350d.htm); if that's anything to go by then you have little to worry about. But the number of samples is small!

It's not the only moving or fragile part though; as I say the eyecup is a bit loose for instance.