1d mkIIN "error 99"

hy guys.
i just bought it this past friday to a friend of mine and today the camera gives me an "error 99"!!!?!?!?!?
when i turn on the camera the shutter do a sound like when i took a picture.
on the lasts shots i took appear one big white mark on the center of the picture and one black on the bottom.
could any of you tell me the lifetime of the shutter curtain on the mkIIN?

thanks to all.

I believe it's rated for 250K shots, but that's just a MTBF. It can fail at 1 or 1,000,000. Sounds like you might need to send it in for a little TLC from a Canon repair center.

Post the pic but it sort of sounds like the shutter is not operating properly. Did this just happen a single time or with regularity?

What lens are you using with the camera? I had this same thing happen to me with my Digital Rebel XTi with a Quantaray 70-300 f/4-5.6 Macro. As it turns out, it was a fault with the lens.

My advice would be try snapping some shots with another lens and see if the error99 continues. If not, it's safe to say that you have a lens gone bad.

Good luck!

thanks to all of you.

heres the last image i took whith it, in the moment that happens the setup is:
1dmkIIN+canon 15mm fisheye+sandisk ultraII 1gb

HTTP response: NOT FOUND | MIME changed to 'image/png'

HTTP response: 404 | MIME changed to 'text/html' | Byte size: ZERO

Hmm.. that sure looks like a shutter blade that did not get out of the way fast enough. A bit surprising based on how slow the shutter speed was at.

Has it happened again? Or was this a one time event.

that happen like 20 times in all shutter speed!!!
even at 1/4000!!!!

kaddafy wrote in post #6408985
that happen like 20 times in all shutter speed!!!
even at 1/4000!!!!

Ouch!! Time to call Canon service before something really bad happens.