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Bought my first SLR a D50 on Saturday with it all worked 100%. First trip out on Sunday and suddenly autofocus doesn't work! Queue massive panic that I have bought what appears to be on it's way to a £190 paper weight.

On returning home a Google and a read of the manual shows I have the AF-lock button setting set to ON, which apparently is a silly thing to do...

Panic over and AF works once again. Think I need to finish reading the manual, confusing things these SLRs.

Managed to get a few keepers so not all bad :)
 
maninsuitcase said:
Bought my first SLR a D50 on Saturday with it all worked 100%. First trip out on Sunday and suddenly autofocus doesn't work! Queue massive panic that I have bought what appears to be on it's way to a £190 paper weight.

On returning home a Google and a read of the manual shows I have the AF-lock button setting set to ON, which apparently is a silly thing to do...

Panic over and AF works once again. Think I need to finish reading the manual, confusing things these SLRs.

Managed to get a few keepers so not all bad :)
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We've all flicked a switch that caused us some problems at one point or another :thumbs: You will soon get to grips with it :)
 
I did that once, set up back button focusing on my D90 and forgot to turn it off when I had finished with it, consequently the AF on the shutter button wouldn't work :bonk:
 
As previously said probably most of us have had that sinking feeling when starting out by forgetting to flick a button back to its original state when experimenting. I think the best one to learn first (providing you do not intend to keep customized settings for the moment) is the reset switch where you can return the camera back to its default settings at the press of a button.
In future if all else fails you can reset it.

I'm a canon man but I assume you will have a reset choice somewhere.
 
:lol:

I was on a location shooting in the middle of the desert when all of a sudden my 24-70 AF-S stopped focusing :eek:. It made me grumpy for a good while, thinking I'd have to send it for service, until I noticed I'd somehow changed the autofocus setting on the body of my D700!

What a relief, and how stupid I felt.
 
frank said:
As previously said probably most of us have had that sinking feeling when starting out by forgetting to flick a button back to its original state when experimenting. I think the best one to learn first (providing you do not intend to keep customized settings for the moment) is the reset switch where you can return the camera back to its default settings at the press of a button.
In future if all else fails you can reset it.

I'm a canon man but I assume you will have a reset choice somewhere.
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I did do a menu driven reset and a 2 button reset but this didn't seem to fix it, that assumes of course I was doing it correctly. Which I suspect I wasn't as it didn't work!
 
Glad you got it sorted, not quite as bad as my father-in-law once did though.

Found out last night he has, in the old film body days, taken a full roll of film and thought he'd got some excellent shots, only to find he'd left the lens cap on :bonk: :lol::lol::lol:

Don't think it happened to often after that and at least he can't do it now with the new digital body
 
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