Canon EOS Rebel XTi error 99 ?

Use a pencil eraser to clean the golden contacts. Worked like a charm for me.

Christian Schuster
October 2009

Try cleaning the lens contacts with a soft cloth, also the contacts on the battery itself. Make sure you clean the lens contacts on both the lens and the camera body. Have you tried a different lens? Error 99 just means "General Error", so could be a lens, battery or CF card problem, but in my case I've had it come up when I was trying to use an old Sigma lens on an EOS 400D, which the Sigma lens couldnt cope with.

LJ
March 2009

freak waste of bandwidth

Max
January 2009