400D Hangs up!

My 400D hangs-up when it reaches 2 bars in the battery meter. This ONLY happens when I use my SIGMA 18-250mm DC OS and I had that lens for a year already. Though when the lens was still brand new, my camera started to hang when it reaches 2 bars. (this has been happening and i'm already getting used to it) The camera hangs after taking a shot, the LCD display is blank, and the green LED light is still even switching it to off, so the only solution is to take the battery off and put it back in. The other day, I was with a friend who shared the same camera model as mine and I inserted my lens to her camera body. Her battery level was also in 2 bars and I took series of shots and it didn't hang it even reached until 1 bar.

I believe there is no problem with the lens and the problem might be in my camera's body or its battery.

What should I do? Anyone share the same experience?

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Permalink Reply by CameraClicker on September 25, 2011 at 6:57am

I don't have a 400D but I use a Sigma 18-250 a lot with my 550D. I am on my second lens. After shooting for almost a year the first started to generate an error that translated to not setting/reading the aperture properly. It would happen periodically. Restarting the camera would get it going for some more shots. I did not even consider the battery level.

Other lenses did not fail on the 550D and I put that lens on my 30D where after a number of shots, it also failed. The lens went in for repair a couple of times. On the third time in, it failed while they were testing it on one of their bodies and they decided to just replace it.

If it were all Canon, you could just give them the pieces and ask them to work it out. As it is, you pretty much have to figure out which is failing then get that piece in for service.

Try putting the lens on your friend's camera for more shots. I could sometimes take a few hundred before I saw the problem, other times I could see the problem after only 10 photos.

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Permalink Reply by Maeda on October 2, 2011 at 2:00am

Thanks! :) I'll do some few experiments and see what solution is best for me.

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Permalink Reply by Glenn P on September 25, 2011 at 12:00pm

Hve you check the battery well and see if there are some corrosion or dirt in the contacts. And check the contacts too for the lens. I did get errors in my Nikon when I was on vacation in Hawaii where the salt in the air was the problem. I make it a point now to clean the contacts both on the lens and body every time I change lens. Hope nothing more serious is wrong with your camera.

But look on the bright side, good reason to get a new body.