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Well i've got my 400D last Saturday so i have had it just under a week and today i was out trying to capture some will birds with the tamaron 70-300mm lens and then this message popped up and it said "err99 Please turn on and off your or take your battery out and put it in again" so i did that and the message popped up again! So i thought maybe my battery was running out so i went home charged it (until it was fully charged) and put it back in again and decided to do some macro shots to see it was working and it work fine until about 10 mins later the same message popped up and a couple of minutes it popped up again. so i was wondering if anyone could tall me what could be wrong i looked at the manual and that was no help so if anyone knows of this problem and how to fix it your help will be much appreciated if there is no way of fixing this problem it will be going straight back to jessops:(! at the moment the camera is working fine but no doubt the message will pop up again!:(
 
Its a very vague message err99 and from past experience it needs to be avoided like the plauge. I would check your lens then get it fixed asap if its not the lenses problem
 
Err99 is the cameras way of telling you "Theres something wrong...but I've no idea what":lol: Have you tried it with another lens to rule out the Tamaron being at fault?
 
Err 99: what's the meaning of this error code
Essentially the err 99 error code in Canon DSLR means nothing and everything. I'll try to explain myself in a better way. Err 99 is a generic all-purpose error code used to indicate that something went wrong with your Canon digital camera; I'm saying something because this is the meaning of the code, something went wrong and it could be anything, the camera system has no idea of what went wrong.

A part from all the discussion on the usefulness of implementing a kind of generic code like this one, a lot of talk could be done but this is not the place to go deep on the topic, what is really happening is the camera has detected some kind of error impeding its proper functioning. The fact is the camera itself has not detected the source of the problem.

This is why the solution proposed is either to turn the camera off and on again, or to remove the battery. Think of this as your preferred IT guy telling you to reboot your computer; this is what your Canon DSLR is telling you: I don't know what's happening, something is wrong and I cannot shoot anymore. Reboot me and let's see if I can recover.

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i would take it back , i had an error code on my old 350d when i used some sigma lenses
 
Thanks, well it looks like someone might be going Jessops tomorrow :(.
 
I've had the canon lens on know (the kit lens) and it has not happened once so i have just give the lens contact a good cleaning on my tamaron lens I'll give the tamaron lens a proper try out to see if that has made a difference (fingers crossed) and i will see if the canon lens make the err 99 appears so i'll give it tomorrow to prove to me it wants to work but if its not working then it will be back to jessops on Sunday.
 
Thanks for the link! Ill give it a good rubbering (wow that actually a word :p) now! Hopefully that will be the problem or it might be the lens i just hope its not the camera!
 
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