Error 99/Error1
StarrToDowler
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Hello...
I use an EFS 17-55 on my 20D. A few days ago, I was getting ready to do a shoot, and after a test shot, I got the dreaded "Error 99" message. I removed and replaced the battery, the CF card, and took off and replaced the lens... still got the message. So I took off the lens and moved it to my 40D... and the 40D gave me an "Error 1" message. I put my 70-200 lens on the 20D to test it, and it worked fine.
When I got home, I looked up the "Error 1" message, and was told to clean the contacts of both the lens and the camera. I did that, and it worked for a few shots, then it failed again, and now no matter what I do I still get the message when using the 17-55 on either camera.
Is there a fix for the 17-55, or am I in serious trouble?
:help
Thanks.
I use an EFS 17-55 on my 20D. A few days ago, I was getting ready to do a shoot, and after a test shot, I got the dreaded "Error 99" message. I removed and replaced the battery, the CF card, and took off and replaced the lens... still got the message. So I took off the lens and moved it to my 40D... and the 40D gave me an "Error 1" message. I put my 70-200 lens on the 20D to test it, and it worked fine.
When I got home, I looked up the "Error 1" message, and was told to clean the contacts of both the lens and the camera. I did that, and it worked for a few shots, then it failed again, and now no matter what I do I still get the message when using the 17-55 on either camera.
Is there a fix for the 17-55, or am I in serious trouble?
:help
Thanks.
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Edit: this was on a 1D2, FWIW.
Under "no" circumstances is steel wool and sandpaper ever allowed near the back of a lens or near an open camera body.
It does sound like there may still be something on the contacts, so I recommend an additional pass with a "clean" pink pencil eraser. (You can rub the eraser against some paper first to gain a clean eraser surface, but don't let any eraser particles near the lens or camera body.)
If you have any doubts about the procedure, take or send the lens to a capable camera shop.
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And I was kidding about the steel wool and sandpaper. But the acid seemed to work!
Oh, the agony ...
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