Kitesurfing in Paracuru, Brazil

Calina

I think this is my new favourite photograph. 50mm prime. After that the details are sketchy. About 50 shots later the camera failed.

smelltheglove

Gorgeous shot.

AnCatDubh

Nice one Calina. Love the splash and the skies. Really captures the action.

Sorry to hear of your 40D's woes.

Hope you can work around it or get an alternate sorted.

Dink

OMG.. What the hell happened to the camera??? Love the pic BTW..

Calina

The truth:

The camera did not fall.

The camera was not dropped.

Specifically it was not drowned. It did not fall in the water, I did not drop it in the water. Nor did it meet a lot of sand. The camera was in my hand when it stopped working. Returned an err99 while I was taking a photograph and will not power on since.

This was not an accident. This was not one of the risks of what I do coming home to roost. This was the camera suffering an unknown internal fault which cannot now be rectified without an engineer taking it apart.

stabo

Sorry to hear that. Great pic,nice colors.

Dink

So sorry to hear that Calina. I have heard of that Error99 message.

democrates

Calina wrote: »

The truth:

The camera did not fall.

The camera was not dropped.

Specifically it was not drowned. It did not fall in the water, I did not drop it in the water. Nor did it meet a lot of sand. The camera was in my hand when it stopped working. Returned an err99 while I was taking a photograph and will not power on since.

This was not an accident. This was not one of the risks of what I do coming home to roost. This was the camera suffering an unknown internal fault which cannot now be rectified without an engineer taking it apart.

Check this fix out though it's a 300d Error 99.

His update from canon tech support:

Canon-USA-Tech_Support wrote:

To isolate the cause of the issue, we suggest that you do the following:

1. Turn off the camera.
2. Remove the lens, battery, and CF card.
3. Allow the camera to sit without power for approximately 20 minutes.
4. Insert a fully charged battery, and turn on the camera.
5. Depress the shutter button as you would to take a picture.

Does the “ERR 99″ message appear? If it does, then the camera should be
serviced. If it does not, then please proceed to the next set of steps:

1. Turn off the camera.
2. Insert the CF card.
3. Turn on the camera.
4. Format the CF card in the camera.
5. Depress the shutter button as you would to take a picture.

Does the “ERR 99″ message appear? If so, then the CF card is the most
likely source of the issue. Try using a different card.

If the message does not appear, please complete the following steps:

1. Turn off the camera.
2. Clean the lens contacts by gently rubbing them with a pencil eraser
or soft cloth. Be careful that you do not let any debris fall into the
camera body.
3. Reattach your lens.
4. Turn on the camera.
5. Depress the shutter button as you would to take a picture.

If the “ERR 99″ message only appears when one particular lens is
attached, then that lens should be examined by a service technician.

If you see the “ERR 99″ with a different Canon lens attached, then the
camera should be serviced.

Failing that and in case you haven't already done it I'd eliminate as much as possible from the equation - swap lens, battery, card, see if you can prove them to work on another body/reader in case one of them is the culprit. Fingers crossed.

Calina

Believe me that is all done. There is another thread on the subject somewhere on the forum. Err99 is bad news and the camera ain't working.

thanks for the input guys.

Borderfox

Its not the first 40d that I have heard to sh*t the load. Sorry to hear about that. Nice shot too

Calina wrote: »

The truth:

The camera did not fall.

The camera was not dropped.

Specifically it was not drowned. It did not fall in the water, I did not drop it in the water. Nor did it meet a lot of sand. The camera was in my hand when it stopped working. Returned an err99 while I was taking a photograph and will not power on since.

This was not an accident. This was not one of the risks of what I do coming home to roost. This was the camera suffering an unknown internal fault which cannot now be rectified without an engineer taking it apart.

kjt

Sorry to hear about the camera Treasa. Lovely shot, at first I was like "wtf? that's awesome, how the hell did she capture the fish jumping out at the same time" on closer inspection 0.0004 of a second later it hit me that it was just a kite far far a way

As from Father Ted
"OK, one last time. These are small... but the ones out there are far away. Small... far away... ah forget it!"