5d mk3 bricked after CF removal

[TjS]

Hi everybody,

I was using a 5d mk3 and ML (08/22/2013 version) for a shoot the other day. We were running ML to record RAW video. When the first card (a 64gb 1000x Komputerbay) was full, the camera operator unfortunately did not shut off the camera and just removed the CF card.

It bricked the camera for good. 

I tried pretty much everything - new battery, different cards - even a SD card, CF cards with and without ML, camera reset by removing the small button battery for a few hours etc.
The camera seems completely fried. The LED does not light up at any point and there is no
other sign of life.
Also since this incident the mirror is folded up and the shutter is closed.

I will probably have to send it in and see if Canon can fix anything - but if anybody has any ideas,
any advice would be much appreciated!

Cheers!

[dmilligan]

did you try all of these?
http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=2221.0

it might be recoverable, but you're going to need an expert like a1ex to help you

there's an LED blink test here: http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=2296.0
but I don't think it's been updated to work with 5d3, so you'd need a version of that with the 5d3's LED address, there might be one floating around, IDK, it would be a simple change if I knew where the source for that was (it might be somewhere in the main tree, if I can find it, I'll compile it for you)

[g3gg0]

hmmm.
iirc if you power it on, the mirror should go down regardless of the main cpu state.
will check that when i am at home.