I have an issue with my Canon lens, It started coming up with a connection error between camera & lens. I found that it only happens between 17mm & 34, the rest of the range is okay......has anyone ever experienced this? I wonder if it's expensive to repair.

Edited 26 November, 201015 yr by GAFF

What lens is it? I had my 17-55 stripped down, AF repaired and a new IS mechanism installed for a total of £220. So depending on the lens fixing the focussing shouldn't be that expensive?

Hmmmm, what model camera/lense is it? Some of the Canon SLR's have seen this problem, due to issues with the contacts where the lense attaches (especially on EF-S lenses,apparently. Do a search on DPreview for info), but if it's at one zoom setting, it can be the aperture blade sticking in the lense, from what I've read.

Phil

Sorry for the late replies, I was away.

My lense is Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4.0-5.6 IS USM, I did find this http://www.fixya.com/support/t4972139-error_lens_camera_body_connection_not

on the dpreview site mentioned, doesn't look like the soldering went well....sounds like it's expensive to fix.

Hope it's not a common thing, as I have the same lense!

Good luck with sorting it.

Phil

If it's just a flex cable then it should be quite cheap to fix? It's not a massive part to replace, and shouldn't need a total strip down hopefully.

If it's just a flex cable then it should be quite cheap to fix? It's not a massive part to replace, and shouldn't need a total strip down hopefully.

I would have thought so myself BUT on the links mentioned above I was thinking twice about it....

Looks like it could be tricky to solder the new cable on....I might get a cost on fixing first.