Just curious of any opinions on this.
About a year ago my Canon 24-105mm starting actiing up.
Then it seemed to be consistently coming up with the Err-01 and saying clean the contacts.
Of course I did clean the contacts but it made not difference.
Looking it up it seems to be a relatively common issue generally to do with the ribbon cable.
It doesn't seem to be practical to get it repaired, seems to be relatively expensive.
I went back looking at it recently and youtube videos of people repairing it.
People were blocking contacts to make it work sort of manually.
I started messing with different apertures and its erractically working.
Say if its on F4 and doesn't work if I switch off and back on and go to F16 it will at least work for a while.
So I'm wondering if its the aperture blades have an issue or whether the ribbon would also cause that problem.
It was a very handy lens, sad to see it broken but not sure if its worth investing in its repair.
About a year ago my Canon 24-105mm starting actiing up.
Then it seemed to be consistently coming up with the Err-01 and saying clean the contacts.
Of course I did clean the contacts but it made not difference.
Looking it up it seems to be a relatively common issue generally to do with the ribbon cable.
It doesn't seem to be practical to get it repaired, seems to be relatively expensive.
I went back looking at it recently and youtube videos of people repairing it.
People were blocking contacts to make it work sort of manually.
I started messing with different apertures and its erractically working.
Say if its on F4 and doesn't work if I switch off and back on and go to F16 it will at least work for a while.
So I'm wondering if its the aperture blades have an issue or whether the ribbon would also cause that problem.
It was a very handy lens, sad to see it broken but not sure if its worth investing in its repair.