{"id":1835,"date":"2011-01-31T22:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T22:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1835"},"modified":"2013-11-09T19:35:20","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T19:35:20","slug":"shutter-failure-but-only-after-some-shots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/shutter-failure-but-only-after-some-shots\/","title":{"rendered":"Shutter Failure (but only after some shots)"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I suffered technical difficulties today. The shutter on my 40D finally packed up midway through taking photos in Regent&#39;s Park (typically, it happened on a beautifully sunny day).  It hasn&#39;t entirely stopped, but it crawls across and masks most of the sensor leaving an image like this.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/shutter_3101110681.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Fortunately I had managed a few shots before that happened, including this back-lit squirrel near the entrance to the park.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/squirrel_3101110618.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>I also snapped a sleeping swan.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/swan_3101110635.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>But the main subjects were a pair of passionate pigeons, still in courtship phase I think!<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/pigeon_3101110653.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/pigeon_3101110654.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/pigeon_3101110655.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/pigeon_3101110656.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>As for the camera, I&#39;ve resurrected my old 400D for the time-being so I won&#39;t be entirely without a means of taking pictures (perish the thought!), and it was probably time for an upgrade anyway \ud83d\ude09<br \/><span class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/button.php?u=Words\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" alt=\"Nature Blog Network\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/><i>Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 40D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[980],"tags":[59,1141,339],"class_list":["post-1835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","tag-pigeon","tag-squirrel","tag-swan","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}