Any guys from the UK sent lenses to canon

[sportsactionpics]

i damage my lense, well it broke itself IMHO. yesterday i was taking some snaps of the family and my lense went and the view went all dark. i now get Error 99 on it now and there is hadly any light on the picture now. my G/F thought it was all the dust on the lense cleaned it both glass ends and now it got smudges on and looks worse. :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

its a L lense canon 24-70mm and is only 2 weeks old and has its warrenty still. do you think its fixable or will they send me a new one, and how lond would that take, got a sports gig in a couple of weeks time :o :o :o :o :o

[DocFrankenstein]

Probably the blades got stuck... do u see the diaphragm when you look inside the lens?

Cleaning the lens wasnt' a good idea.

[sportsactionpics]

Yes its half closed, is there anything i can do and can i buy anything to clean the glass?

[PaulB]

As the lens fairly new (under a few weeks old) - if it is to your dealer that the first call should be made; they should replace the lens under warranty. Canon will repair your lems unde warranty but will not replace it with a new one. Oh, and anything is fixable if you have the parts and the money.
Really cleaning the external front and rear elements is NOT going to make the slightest difference to the problem if it is the iris which is stuck - you are just wasting your time and may just create a problem with over-enthusiastic cleaning......But you say you "damage my lense" (sic). If it broke by itself how did you damage it? What really happened?
I hope that the the "sports gig" you are going to do is in a sport you know more about than you do your photographic equipment!