Hi all I just bought a EOS 300d on Friday, and I took it into school to use it in the studio for some portraits for Portraiture class and I ran into a wall when it came to getting the strobes to sync with the camera. They wouldn't. I was useing a pair of white lightning 2400s and the hotshoe was a "tundra hotshoe adapter 97hsa" (which was working everytime I used a school nikon d100) whenever I would fire the camera (300d) I would get "error 99" on my display. I called the canon customer service and after about 15 minutes of nonsense (what is your address, what is your email, the 300d is a wonderful machine, isn't it? I love mine.. etc.. etc..) he tells me its a problem with the hotshoe. say it could be the voltage of the lights? Tells me I should look for "TTL hotshoe 3" or check out weinporducts.com for a safe sync? I'm about to head off to check these things out, but I wanted to post here to find out if anyone had a similar experiance and how you rectified it. I really need to get this problem fixed, because half the reason I bought the camera when I did was to help with my studio portaits.
thans alot.
Phil