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Offline timbobaggins

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Help with error message
« on: February 22, 2012, 06:53:39 AM »
Hi folks,

I wonder if anyone can point me in the right direction here

I was out today with my usual combo of canon 550d plus tamron 200-500 lens, never had any problems before but today the camera started making buzzing noises every time i tried to take a pic, plus error message 01 Communication between Camera & Lens is Faulty Clean the Lens Contacts. I've tried cleaning the connections but to no avail.
 
Strange thing is the camera works fine with another very recently purchased tamron lens which i bought in France, an AF 18-200 aspherical.
 
The camera has a few days warranty left and thinking of contacting Canon but is it the camera or is it the lens? Someone has told me recently that the old Tamron I use (SP AF Di LD (IF) 200-500F/5-6.3) is not meant to be used on the 550d because it's not marked Di11 ..... no ever told me that, and in any case it's worked fine for over a year with good results - until now. Just wondering if the new lens (which is marked Di11) has inadvertantly triggered something?!!
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Offline Snapper

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Re: Help with error message
« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2012, 09:10:56 AM »
It certainly sounds like the lens and so returning the camera to Canon is unlikely to achieve any successful outcome...  :(
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Re: Help with error message
« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2012, 11:24:01 AM »
I recently bought an old used sigma 70-300mm that has the same issue. Its not designed for digital cameras It only fires properly when the aperture is wide open.
It is the lens. Return it!
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Offline Bif

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Re: Help with error message
« Reply #3 on: February 24, 2012, 08:43:07 PM »
The third party lens makers like Tamron, Sigma, Tokina and others do not have the same quality control in the manufacturing process that Canon and Nikon do.  Failures of that type are not at all uncommon.  Another relatively unknown fact with third party glass is that image quality varies within the same model.

In the 1970's Vivitar lenses seemed to come in 3 "grades" within the same model.  Pretty good, mediocre, and downright awful.  In 1973 the photo lab chief and I hit the Navy Exchange in Taipei and the photo counter had a 20mm Vivitar wide angle in Nikon mount.  He "snapped it up" while I hesitated, he began using it "on assigment", I was doing most of the "grunt" lab work and wound up printing most of his stuff.

Couple of months later they got another one in and this time I didn't hesitate.  First thing that hit me in the face was that mine was much, much sharper than his.  Same focal length, same lens formula, same lab Nikon F2...But mine was sharp and his was soft.

I saw the same thing in Vivitar Series One 70-210 zooms in that time period and I continue to see the same thing in the current third party lenses sold. 

So in those days I stuck with Nikkors, now I stay with Canon (Olympus Zuiko and Panasonic Lumix in Micro Four Thirds) glass.
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