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Damn I hate my canon 5d so much. 60% of my shots today are returning error 99 when they try to write to the card. This camera is such a piece of crap. And a month after they were supposed to ship the mark 2 I still haven't received my preorder. I hate canon so much right now.

December 23, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

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You deleted you old entry that I commented to. :( - Tyler (Chacha)

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Oh yeah, that famous Err99... :( - Holger Eilhard

Soon my friend, it will be all over and you'll be in happy Canon-land once again! - Ryan

You should switch to Nikon, followed by a deeply discounted sale of all of your Canon gear. - David Thomas

Headed over to shoot that giant Felix the cat head car dealership thingy. - Thomas Hawk

yikes -- I'm thinking about going Nikon for my first DSLR. This a from Canon user - Shey, Jamaican of FF

Thomas, have you tried reformatting the CF card, or using a different CF card? - David Sifry

This has nothing to do with your 5D. Which lens? That is a lens communication error. I used to get this with my 70-200mm L IS. Cleaning the connectors on the back of the lens is your first start. Check to see if the lens that this is happening with is known to have this problem. Some older lenses require a tune up by Canon. - Jim Goldstein

Amazon is still showing kits available - http://astore.amazon.com/saouri-... - planetMitch

Yeah I don't think it's the lens or the cards. I'm getting the same error on three different cards and on my 135mm, 50mm, 24mm and 14mm. The power keeps going out on the camera as well with the only way to revive it being to remove and reinsert the battery. - Thomas Hawk

The following link has step by step instructions on isolating the cause of your Error 99 - http://www.richardsnotes.org/archive... - Look for "Update #2" - Joakim Erdfelt

Grrr. It's getting worse. I can't believe I'm going to be stuck shooting with my 10d for the rest of this trip. - Thomas Hawk

OI GRUMPY some would kill for a 10D so shhhh - Phill Price

Sorry to hear of your camera troubles, Thomas...I've noticed a lot of places are starting to have the Canon 5D Mark ll kit in stock now... if that helps any. - Susan Dennis

Yeah, I'm grumpy. I expect more from a $3,000 camera. These problems are costing me a lot of time today. I'm going to have to bail on John Candy's grave and just head straight to Peterson's automotive museum. - Thomas Hawk

"Good, I can feel your anger. Take your D3X. Press that shutter down with all of your hatred, and your journey towards Nikon will be complete!" - Johnny Worthington

Thomas -- I thought your 5D had already exceed by a long shot its expected shutter life? By that standard you have already received your $3000 worth of value? - Brian Sullivan

Hey, thanks for that link joakim, I just used a pencil eraser on the contacts and will see if that helps. - Thomas Hawk

Ok, not so grumpy anymore. First, thanks a million joakim for that link. The eraser trick worked and my error 99 problems are gone. 2nd, Peterson's automotive museum is spectacular. Highly recommended if you like to shoot fine automobiles! - Thomas Hawk

where is this museum? - Paula W

Pencil eraser? That's it? I'm amazed - Morton Fox

I'm liking this just because it had a happy outcome. - Alex Scoble

What Alex said. - Derrick

How about a repair? Hope you get your 5D MKII soon. - Håkan Dahlström

like your pics http://www.Merry X’mas.com - xuzizhan from Nambu

Where is Thomas Hawk? His last post was Tuesday. On second though I don't want to interrupt his family time. - Russellreno

still around. Out in Angeles National Forest with dial up only access that's barely dial up at that. That and focusing on shooting alot. My 99 errors have returned to my 5D. Really sucks. Going to try and shoot Bukowski's grave today, the MONA (finally) and meeting up with a guy in Long Beach at 3pm to shoot some industrial stuff down there tonight. Should be a good day. Shot Ventura Blvd. on Christmas Eve night. The Cadillac dealership there is fantastic. - Thomas Hawk

Ha! I was thinking of heading up to Angeles to do a photowalk with the kids. - Admiral Anika

my 5D Mark II is still on backorder with Wolf. I wouldn't mind near as much if my current 5D wasn't handling so badly. It's really frustrating when you can't get 60% of your shots. It really slows things down. - Thomas Hawk

send it my way, I pay top dollar ;o) - sofarsoShawn

time to upgrade to Nikon!!!... - Fernando

My Error 99 problem has gone from bad to worse on my 5D. i can barely get the camera on any more. I have to take the battery out and reinsert it about 30 times in order to get the power on the camera. As soon as I get my new Mark II this sick puppy is going in for repair. Fortunately I bought a 3 year warranty on it from Mack. Hopefully Mack honors the warranty as the camera's only a year and a half old. - Thomas Hawk

Officially giving up on my 5D. Shooting neon signs this afternoon/tonight with my 10D. - Thomas Hawk

Have you tried with a different card brand? What about a different size? - Alejandro Ramirez

I started getting these for the first time last night and I had no idea what was going on. - Andrew Trinh

Hey you camera enthusiasts, I called someone a shutterbug a few weeks ago and drew a blank. Is that a bad thing? I find nothing on Google. - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

Dave Winer

Rick Warren pulled the anti-gay language from his Web site. http://www.americablog.com/2008...

December 22, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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via lfg - http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article... FAQ page at the Saddleback Church that contained their policy statements on dinosaurs, evolution, and homosexuality (among other subjects) has suddenly been wiped clean: Saddleback Church: Small Group Information. But Google’s cache has a copy as it appeared on December 16, 2008. - Jeff Evans

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Maybe a step in the right direction? Is Obama making progress? - Eric @ CSTechcast.com

You cannot escape Google cache. - Russellreno

Even if you cannot escape Google cache, it's obvious someone got to him and told him to do the right thing. KUDOS! - Helen Sventitsky

What is hilarious is their mishmash of Bible translations on the pages. TLB isn't even a translation! It's a paraphrase! It is as if they had a committee searching to find which translation was the most anti-gay. This is an inerrant document to them. You would think they would show it some respect. - James Little

dota is cool http://www.dota.com - xuzizhan from Nambu

Instead of looking for the negativity in this removal, look at it as a start of his education. A positive in my opinion. You will not change some people's opinion - ever. Some people will take a long time to educate. - Robert Couture

Dave has identified one thing, and James Little has identified another thing, that is probably causing a huge firestorm of protest against Rick Warren right now. As some people know, Rick Warren is very controversial among some circles of conservative Christians, for sins such as (a) using a mishmash of Scripture translations and paraphrases to make a non-scriptural point (as James noted), (b) denying what are seen as basic Christian doctrines (as Dave noted), and... - Ontario Emperor

...(c) associating with evil Holocaust-loving abortionists such as Barack Obama (as many noted when Warren's appearance at the inaugural was announced). I'll check my sources, but I suspect that Warren is really being raked over the coals now. - Ontario Emperor

just proves to me what I though all along, Rick Warren is after social praise. If he believed what the Bible says, he would not change. - Darren

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