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Brief note on Canon 10x30 IS Battery Door issue
Yes, they just sent me the part of the image that referred to the focusing knob. It was extremely easy to replace... peel off the sticky bit on the front, unscrew, replace, etc. -
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Brief note on Canon 10x30 IS Battery Door issue
I think it depends what's broken or failed. I'd try and find out who provides Canon spare parts in the U.S. and ask them what parts are available. Also perhaps they have the full parts drawing that I posted part of (the only part I have) earlier in the thread. Good Luck! -
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Brief note on Canon 10x30 IS Battery Door issue
As I said earlier SIG don't design or manufacture binoculars, they just pay Kamakura to write SIG on some of their standard binoculars so they can sell them under their brand. As do Kite, Opticron and Vixen (maybe more). All of those that seem the same I would expect to be the same. -
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Brief note on Canon 10x30 IS Battery Door issue
The Zulu-6 are, as I understand it from these forums and CloudyNights, just a standard Kamakura binocular badged by SIG, they make Guns but not Optics... Also badged by Kite (plus Opticron and Vixen): https://www.kiteoptics.com/en/nature/products/stabilized-optics/bino-apc-stabilized-30/... -
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Brief note on Canon 10x30 IS Battery Door issue
I'd try the UK e-mail address I gave... fingers crossed they can either supply you or at least measure it... -
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Brief note on Canon 10x30 IS Battery Door issue
In Europe you get 2 years on Canon stuff, that's better than many, Nikon is 1, Fuji is 1, Sony is 1. They don't do anything special for binos AFAIK, but its a specialist area. I have yet to have a Canon lens fail and I have a lot of them dating to 2008. -
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Brief note on Canon 10x30 IS Battery Door issue
Do you have a release slider like the bottom left in my picture? If not you may have a problem, if so the spring needs to fit over the small projection at the right end in the pic. If the design is the same as the 10x30 then you could estimate the length by comparing to the AA battery in the... -
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Brief note on Canon 10x30 IS Battery Door issue
While answering a question elsewhere on the forum I ran down a partial parts diagram for the mk 1 10x30s in my old e-mails, so I'll add that here too... The focusing knob that went gooey is #35 in the image and its part number is YA7-0645-000 (£14 delivered in 2018 from [email protected] ). -
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Brief note on Canon 10x30 IS Battery Door issue
I find them enjoyable to use. I use them off and on, but they are a little heavy to just always carry when I go out for any reason, rather than planning to use binoculars (although light compared to many of the Canon IS models - the 15 or 18 x 50s are mostly for body-builders IMHO). Also if... -
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Brief note on Canon 10x30 IS Battery Door issue
Parts (not included yesterday as I was having my first go with a mild glue... didn't work so trying Superglue now and took a pic while the bits were available)... P.S. I found the receipt - purchased in 2000 (July? not sure if a 7 or a 1) for £275, so not done too bad as they're over 22 years... -
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Brief note on Canon 10x30 IS Battery Door issue
I have a, quite old now, mk 1 pair of Canon 10x30 IS binoculars that I have been delighted with. I have had two issues over the years. One was that the focusing knob's rubber-like plastic went a bit gooey, but I got a replacement from Canon and exchanged it myself. Yesterday I had a new issue -...