f - - ERROR

[Ken Romero]

After shooting 400-500 images with my S2 and new Tamron 2.8, 28-105 lens with no problem....this Sunday I got "F --" indication in the top LCD...turned the camera on/off a copule of times and then it worked fine for 20-30 images and then did it again! Changed cr123's, 2aa's and it did it again. Made sure the aperature was locked on the highest aperature because the "F- - " message indicates non-CPU lens attached...not so. Anybody got any ideas?

Thanks,

[pixcolor]

I had a problem with my Sigma zoom lens where the focusing would stop working with no warning. Fuji Canada said that they would do nothing as I wasn't using a Nikkor lens. So I sold my Sigma and bought the Nikkor 80-200 2.8. Now I get the same problem as you are experiencing. According to Fuji, I am the only person in the world who has experienced this problem. The lens seems to be a bit looser on the body than other lenses, and I wonder if it is losing contact. Also makes me wonder if it sometimes loses contact only partially, causing out of focus images but without the F-- message. Has anybody else experienced similar problems?

[Ken Romero]

I find my Tamron also has a little too much "play". I'll try my Nikon 24-120 to see if it also has that little bit of movement. I don't think I ever had the f-- problem with the Nikon lens so maybe it's a Tamron mount problem?

[JetEye]

I am also seeig the same problem w/ Sigma 28-200 lense. I don't have any problems w/ Nikon lense that I have; I also have tried 2 other Nikon lenses borrowed from other people w/o any problems.
It appears that when I put my Sigma lense, it "clicks" into the camera but I can still twist just a bit more. If I do twist a little more, I get the "F--" error. So, everytime when I use the Sigma lense, I must make sure that I do not twist the lense more than the first "click".

HTH

[Tom V]

Last August, when I was trying out a wide angle zooms at a local camera store I had a similar experience. I think the fault was with the lens. I was trying a Sigma wide zoom (I think 15-30) which worked perfect on my Nikon F100 film camera, but when I put it on my brand new Fuji S2, the top LCD indicated the lens was not correct (F- -). Further twisting of the lens on the camera mount got the camera to "read" the lens. I could take a few shots, then the camera would "lose" the lens. I had to retwist the lens to re-establish contact. On the F100, it always worked fine.

I think there must be some specifications that either the individual Fuji camera or the individual lens just barely meet - or almost meet. The fact that the lens worked fine on the Nikon F100 leads me to believe that it was the Fuji at fault. Pixcolor's post above is the only instance I have heard of a Nikkor not working right on the S2. Since 99.9999% of Nikkors work just fine, I would suspect the individual Sigma lens being out of spec more than the Fuji. There are lots of people using Sigmas without any problem.

I ended up buying a Sigma 14mm ƒ2.8 lens. I figured, knowing me, that if I got a 15-30 zoom, I would have it at the wide end all the time anyway.

I have had no problems with the Sigma 14mm, or my 10 year old Sigma 70-210 ƒ2.8. The only lens I have had problems with was a Nikkor 20mm ƒ2.8 AF that had a stuck aperture. I think that was caused by condensation after a 15F degree outdoor shoot.

I have to praise Tamron too. I used to have a Tamron 70-220 ƒ4 that survived 2 camera-destroying falls, one onto hardwood floor, and another into Lake Superior -- and never missed a beat. I wish they build cars as sturdy (and as amphibious).

[sani]

Has anyone gotten to the bottom of this problem yet?

I get the same error with a nikon lens. I have D10 body with a Nikkor 24-120 VR lens.

I started getting F-- intermittently after several months of owning the camera. It happens very randomly.

Really pisses me off.

Sani

[Tom Nolle]

All I could suggest is to clean the contact area in the camera body well. The only time I see that indicator is if I don't have a lens mouted, so I agree with the other posts that it's likely a problem with the lens not making good contact with the body.

Tom

[Maisiemouse]

I had the same thing happen on my S2 with a Tamron 28-105. Annoyingly, it happened on the very first shot of my very first paying job. I spent the whole session rebooting the S2 every few shots. The guy who arranged the session kept wondering what I was doing (he considered himself to be a digital camera expert - so why didn't he do the job himself?) so I told him that the camera was so powerful it needed to be switched off regularly to cool the processor down. He fell for it - duh!

Incidentally the camera has never shown the same problem since, no matter what lens I use. What Tom says makes sense - it sounds like a contact problem. I'd be wary of using fluids to clean the contacts on the body - I don't suppose the Fuji warranty extends to WD40 damage to the CCD. I would guess the best thing to do would be to engage/disengage the lens a couple of times.