Re: good lens gone bad?

[Bob <w8imo@xxxxxxxx>]

Lea,

Looks to me like you answered your question.  Hopefully it is still in warranty.....

Bob

Lea Murphy wrote:

It's a Tamron.

I have two of the exact same lens...it's a 28-70mm f/2.8.

I put the second one on and all is well.

The first one still won't work.

Lea

On Jan 28, 2009, at 11:46 AM, rebphoto wrote:

What brand of lens?

 

I had a Sigma lens that worked fine

for over a year with my 10d and

then decided not to talk with the camera

anymore. Kept giving the error 99.

 

I gave it to a friend.

 

He sent it to Sigma and for about $10.00

they did something so it would talk to his

Canon Rebel.

 

Russ
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Starve a Fever........

 

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Lea Murphy

To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students

Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 12:38 PM

Subject: good lens gone bad?

I have a dedicated 5D and lens in my studio. It never leaves there and isn't used by anyone else.

Today when I used the camera for a session it was acting all funky, had a heck of a time making focus and was kind of grinding around as if I were manually focusing with the lens set in autofocus mode. I removed the lens, put it on my 5DM2, it behaved the same way and the camera gave me an error saying the contacts needed cleaning. I cleaned them but the problem persists. Can a lens or lens contacts go bad? It hasn't been dropped or used outside the studio ever. Actually, it's never off the studio body. Any ideas what in the world is going on here? Lea

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