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Canon Digital Rebel XTi / Canon 400D (Body Only)
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EJ (Keegan) 1 pts
February 4, 2008 1:56 PM
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Why Error 99 with this camera w/ lens included?

I am trying to buy a digital SLR and looked at the review for this camera. The one without a lens has 5 stars from everybody but the one with the lens so may comments with "Error 99" . Is there a problem with Canon lens 18-55mm?
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by James DeRuvo (byjamesderuvo) 58449 pts
February 4, 2008 7:12 PM
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It was probably dirty contacts. It can do it with third party lenses, but usually it's something a simply scrape with a pencil eraser can cure.
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EJ (Keegan) 1 pts
February 4, 2008 8:56 PM
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The comments I read did not seem with the third party lenses or being dirty. Many of them indicated that it was a brand new lens that came with the camera. It makes me nervous about buying it.
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by James DeRuvo (byjamesderuvo) 58449 pts
February 5, 2008 1:32 PM
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I found a good error 99 post on a blog which gets into it pretty good and shows how to isolate the error .... worth checking out. Other sites I have read boil it down to two causes, third party lens compatibility and dirty contacts. There is also the possibility of low battery power causing the issue. But I haven't come across it being attributable to the Canon lens itself. Can you share a few links?
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EJ (Keegan) 1 pts
February 6, 2008 7:46 PM
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Thank you for giving me the site that discuss Error 99. It sounds to me there is some issue with Canon firmware or something. I will ask Canon if they have done anything about it. If not I will ask them to read these comments.
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Dave@Canon 43 pts
April 18, 2008 10:55 AM
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Unfourtanently this is nto a firmware problem it's one of four things.

1. Camera was dropped.
2. Third party attachment.
3. Bad cf card.
4. Dirty contacts.
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