Surprise for Canon EOS 300 Digital Rebel

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Gosh - yet another person finds out that Sigma lenses are not permanent and
blames it on Canon rather than on Sigma. Sigma is NOT Compatible with Canon
except by random chance. They claim they will rechip lenses that don't work
on newer Canon (and apparently Minoltas too) bodies but they can be very
creative in finding ways to get out of doing this.
Had you bought good lenses in the first place you would not be in this
situation now.
BTW Canon has NEVER guaranteed that any lens by any manufacturer other
than Canon will work on any Canon body, but there have only been a couple
lenses by manufacturers other than Sigma that have needed re-chipping.

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"Augustino Patti" <apattijr@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
newsr6qe.74253$6k7.17992@bignews4.bellsouth.net...
> Hello and SURPRISE To all those of you that bought the Canon Digital
Rebel
> EOS 300 as its called, I paid $1 thousand dollars for it, was assured that
> all my lens would work on it and got it home placed a Macro Sigma lens on
> it, my super close up lens and guess what? BINGO, ERROR 99 meaning get
that
> off this camera.
>
> Tried my 300 mm lens again SIGMA ,,, NO GOOD "Error 99"
>
> What a shot in the dark for me all that money spent and then 2 or all my
> Sigma lens do not work.
>
> Why didn't Canon let us know about this before I spent some good cash.
>
> If you are buying MAKE sure they tell you what lens WORK and what lens
FAIL.
>
> Thanks,
> Tino
> Videobyme@yahoo.com
>
>

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Augustino Patti wrote:
> Hello and SURPRISE To all those of you that bought the Canon Digital Rebel
> EOS 300 as its called, I paid $1 thousand dollars for it, was assured that
> all my lens would work on it and got it home placed a Macro Sigma lens on
> it, my super close up lens and guess what? BINGO, ERROR 99 meaning get that
> off this camera.
>
> Tried my 300 mm lens again SIGMA ,,, NO GOOD "Error 99"
>
> What a shot in the dark for me all that money spent and then 2 or all my
> Sigma lens do not work.
>
> Why didn't Canon let us know about this before I spent some good cash.
>
> If you are buying MAKE sure they tell you what lens WORK and what lens FAIL.
>
> Thanks,
> Tino
> Videobyme@yahoo.com
>
>

My sigma 28-135 ASP Macro wouldn't work either. Perfect excuse to
upgrade to a decent lens ! Now got the canon 28-135 IS.

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Augustino Patti wrote:
> Hello and SURPRISE To all those of you that bought the Canon Digital Rebel
> EOS 300 as its called, I paid $1 thousand dollars for it, was assured that
> all my lens would work on it and got it home placed a Macro Sigma lens on
> it, my super close up lens and guess what? BINGO, ERROR 99 meaning get that
> off this camera.
>
> Tried my 300 mm lens again SIGMA ,,, NO GOOD "Error 99"
>
> What a shot in the dark for me all that money spent and then 2 or all my
> Sigma lens do not work.
>
> Why didn't Canon let us know about this before I spent some good cash.
>
> If you are buying MAKE sure they tell you what lens WORK and what lens FAIL.
>
> Thanks,
> Tino
> Videobyme@yahoo.com
>
>
Hi,
Another case of you get what you pay for.
Tony

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This is why I'm buying all Canon lenses. When I upgrade to a new body in the
future, I don't want the big surprise that none of my Sigma lenses work! You
can send the lens in and lose the use of it for a few weeks privided it is
not too old (yuck).
-S

"Augustino Patti" <apattijr@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
newsr6qe.74253$6k7.17992@bignews4.bellsouth.net...
> Hello and SURPRISE To all those of you that bought the Canon Digital
Rebel
> EOS 300 as its called, I paid $1 thousand dollars for it, was assured that
> all my lens would work on it and got it home placed a Macro Sigma lens on
> it, my super close up lens and guess what? BINGO, ERROR 99 meaning get
that
> off this camera.
>
> Tried my 300 mm lens again SIGMA ,,, NO GOOD "Error 99"
>
> What a shot in the dark for me all that money spent and then 2 or all my
> Sigma lens do not work.
>
> Why didn't Canon let us know about this before I spent some good cash.
>
> If you are buying MAKE sure they tell you what lens WORK and what lens
FAIL.
>
> Thanks,
> Tino
> Videobyme@yahoo.com
>
>

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On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 21:07:05 +1200, Colin D
<ColinD@killspam.127.0.0.1> wrote:

>
>
>Augustino Patti wrote:
>>
>> Hello and SURPRISE To all those of you that bought the Canon Digital Rebel
>> EOS 300 as its called, I paid $1 thousand dollars for it, was assured that
>> all my lens would work on it and got it home placed a Macro Sigma lens on
>> it, my super close up lens and guess what? BINGO, ERROR 99 meaning get that
>> off this camera.
>>
>> Tried my 300 mm lens again SIGMA ,,, NO GOOD "Error 99"
>>
>> What a shot in the dark for me all that money spent and then 2 or all my
>> Sigma lens do not work.
>>
>> Why didn't Canon let us know about this before I spent some good cash.
>>
>> If you are buying MAKE sure they tell you what lens WORK and what lens FAIL.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tino
>> Videobyme@yahoo.com
>
>Just in case the message from the other replies doesn't get through,
>I'll say it in words of one syllable for you. You buy a new car, get
>some third-rate tires fitted, and then blame the car when a couple of
>tires blow out?
>
>Canon make first-rate lenses for their cameras that are *guaranted to
>work on any Canon camera*. Canon do not have to verify lenses that some
>independent company makes without the official technical data to base
>the design on. Sigma are renowned for reverse-engineering the camera
>interface, and their lenses often fail when used on a later camera than
>they reverse-engineered. They run a re-chipping program to counter the
>problems caused by their design approach, but I understand they do not
>like re-chipping a lens more than once.
>
>So, the problem is Sigma's, not Canon's. Get your lenses re-chipped, or
>dump them and buy Canon.
>
>Did you get the 18-55mm lens that is offered with the 300D? I bet that
>doesn't throw an error 99. Go figure.
>
>Colin

Exactly!
Canon isn't in the business of guaranteeing that Sigma's lenses work
on Canon's cameras; that's Sigma's job.

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Big Bill
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"Augustino Patti" <apattijr@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
newsr6qe.74253$6k7.17992@bignews4.bellsouth.net...
> Hello and SURPRISE To all those of you that bought the Canon Digital
Rebel
> EOS 300 as its called, I paid $1 thousand dollars for it, was assured that

Hellooooo?!
I don't own a 300D, but even I knew there would be a problem with older
Sigma lenses.

Research - what a shame people don't do it, and then get all inflamed when
nothing more than 5 minutes on the internet would have saved them all that
heartache.

But you're trolling really, aren't you, Augustino?
H.

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"Augustino Patti" <apattijr@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
newsr6qe.74253$6k7.17992@bignews4.bellsouth.net...
> Hello and SURPRISE To all those of you that bought the Canon Digital
> Rebel EOS 300 as its called, I paid $1 thousand dollars for it, was
> assured that all my lens would work on it and got it home placed a Macro
> Sigma lens on it, my super close up lens and guess what? BINGO, ERROR 99
> meaning get that off this camera.
>
> Tried my 300 mm lens again SIGMA ,,, NO GOOD "Error 99"
>
> What a shot in the dark for me all that money spent and then 2 or all my
> Sigma lens do not work.
>
> Why didn't Canon let us know about this before I spent some good cash.
>
> If you are buying MAKE sure they tell you what lens WORK and what lens
> FAIL.
>
> Thanks,
> Tino
> Videobyme@yahoo.com
>
>



In fairness to Canon, they have no obligation to ensure compatability with
third party accessories. That's up to the manufacturer of the accessory,
not Canon.

Mark