good luck. it's been nice knowing you. :)
K.
2009/3/12 Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> That seems to be one of those catchall error codes that's used for
> everything from lens-camera communications failure (dirty contacts) to
> battery on the fritz to all-out four legs pointing to the sky dead.
>
> I see that there is a new firmware update for a couple of the models which
> fixes the Err99 by renaming it to other error numbers.
>
> Now, before our resident darksiders go and launch tiefighters at me and
> think I'm unfairly targeting their beloved axes of choice, I'm not. Every
> digital camera has faults--even my E-1 has one fatal one that can occur
> when
> I'm running multiple bursts of pictures and the file-writing goes into bog
> mode and locks the camera up for five minutes. But my point is that some
> cameras are more resiliant to faults than others by design. A fault which
> will bring one camera to its knees will be compartmentalized by another.
>
> It's kinda like Microsoft vs Mac-OS, vs Linux. The computer may be subject
> to something as simple as attaching/detaching a printer, which is turned
> on. Remember the infamous BSOD* that occured when Bill Gates was speaking
> at that conference?
>
> Err99 is just Canon's version of the BSOD.
>
> AG
>
> *Blue Screen Of Death
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