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LeVan Moxley December 19th, 2011 09:32 PM

XL2 Service manual?
 
I'm looking for a downloadable copy of an XL2 service manual

Colin McDonald December 20th, 2011 02:46 AM

Re: XL2 Service manual?
 
It's in the Stickies http://consumer.usa.canon.com/cusa/s...ersAndSoftware
Seek and ye shall find

LeVan Moxley December 20th, 2011 07:30 AM

Re: XL2 Service manual?
 
Ok, I guess I'm completely blind because I can't find anything about the Service Manual. Your link takes me to the Canon website where the operators manual is located. I also see a link to the operators manual in the Sticky section. Could you please point me to the link for the Service Manual. Sorry my search skills are so lacking.

Chris Soucy December 20th, 2011 02:33 PM

Re: XL2 Service manual?
 
Doubt you're going to have much luck.

Canon DO NOT (publicly) publish service manuals for any of their gear, though there have been rumours of the odd one somehow "slipping off" their servers, usually in a language not conducive to easy use.


CS

Colin McDonald December 20th, 2011 02:44 PM

Re: XL2 Service manual?
 
LeVan, my apologies for not reading your first post carefully enough. You are quite correct, no link here will take you to the Service manual for that camera.

LeVan Moxley December 20th, 2011 07:09 PM

Re: XL2 Service manual?
 
I've been looking around on Google for a service manual with no luck. I've got a back focus issue with one of my XL2's and I'm hoping that with a service manual I can fix it without having to send it in to Canon.

Terry Wall December 21st, 2011 10:51 PM

Re: XL2 Service manual?
 
Hey, LeVan...I have a PDF of the XL2 owners' manual...downloaded it a while ago. PM me and I'll send it to you.

Cheers!
Terry

Terry Wall December 21st, 2011 10:53 PM

Re: XL2 Service manual?
 
Sorry, LeVan...I jumped the gun. You're looking for a SERVICE manual; not an owners' manual. I don't have one of those. My bad! Good luck with your search. I can also tell you that if you do have a back focus problem with the lens, the service center is the way to go.

Don Palomaki December 23rd, 2011 03:00 PM

Re: XL2 Service manual?
 
Going back a few years it was possible to buy a hard copy service manual from Canon Parts, they ran on the order of $50 or so. Then when the GL1 came out Canon changed policy - end users had to pass through a gate keeper and sign a warranty waiver in order to buy one. The issue being end users really had no business inside the camcorder - most would likely only mess things up if not a well qualified technician with a decent bench of tools and test/service gear.

With that in mind, you could call Canon parts and see what the current policy is.

I've seen partial manuals for machines like the HV20 available for download on line. Usually related to some user mod. A web search may turn something up.

In any case I would be reluctant to open any machine that is still under warranty, and recognize that anything i did might increase ultimate repair cost.

Chris Soucy December 23rd, 2011 06:30 PM

Re: XL2 Service manual?
 
Ain't no manual and I can't vouch for it's accuracy, but is this any help?

Setting Back Focus (XL2)

Don't say I didn't warn you!


CS


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