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Canon Digital Rebel XT / EOS 350D Digital Camera with EF-S 18-55mm Lens

Error 99 in Canon EOS 350 D (by 5 users)

posted by pollocks20 on Aug 15, 2007

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I have been experiencing sporatic error 99 messages for the past 1 week with my kit lens and my Canon EF-S, 18-55 mm, 1:3.5 - 5.6 II. This original Lens was bought along with the Camera. I have taken just over 10,000 exposures with my camera in 16 months.

If I change the lens, the camera works fine.

I have done this, but still the error continues :

1. Carefully clean the 8 gold color lens contact pins on the camera body
lens mount with a pencil eraser. Do this while holding the camera so that
any eraser dust will not fall into the camera.

2. Take out both batteries. Also remove the CF memory card.

3. With the batteries removed, turn the camera switch on for 3-5 minutes. He said that this clears the memory.

4. Turn the camera off and put the batteries and CF card back in.

5. Re-attach the lens and turn it back on.

I have the same problem.

4 Other Users Have The Same Problem

Comment by Guest, posted on Aug 25, 2008

i was taking pics from my EOS 350 D then all of suden this mesage appears on the screen camra stoped working plz help me out

Comment by Guest, posted on Jun 10, 2008

My camera has the same problem. How I fix that?

Comment by Guest, posted on Nov 25, 2007

Hi I am Anand,
I a professional photographer I had the error 99 problem in my Canon EOS 350D with sigma lens 17-35mm while shooting a landscape picture which was very important to me and suddenly i had this problem and i did not know what do. I shut down may camera and after few hours i switched on the camera it was working fine Should i give may camera for service? and get it checked.

Comment by Guest, posted on Nov 21, 2007

when i take any shot by camira show these word (error 99)

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posted on May 03, 2008

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I am desperate; I am at Normandy (France) to see the D-Day sites...something I've waited to do for 40 years. Accidentally, my Canon 350D fell on the ground; I picked it up and it worked fine as I took dozens of picture in Paris...but now that I'm here, absolutely nothing will turn on, even though it downloaded picture to my laptop just this morning. Please help; what can I do?

FYI, after the accident, the Error 99 message came on...but then went away; is there a link here?

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posted on Feb 10, 2008

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how do i fix the error 99 in my lens in canon 350 d

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posted on Jul 14, 2008

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error 99

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posted on Aug 24, 2007

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The aperture diaphragm of the Kit-Lens may be "damaged" by unkown reason(s), such that it cannot stop down. Prove it when you try the depth-of-field button several times, the stopping-down action may fail sometime.

Therefore, I have to bought another second-handed one to solve this problem!

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