topic Re: My Cannon Rebel T1i stopped shooting. I removed the lens and tried my other lens. It still doesn in EOS DSLR & Mirrorless Cameras

My Cannon Rebel T1i stopped shooting. I removed the lens and tried my other lens. It still doesn't.

isabelhines — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 17:38:34 GMT

My Cannon T1i stopped shooting. I tried changing lenses ant it still won't work.

Re: My Cannon Rebel T1i stopped shooting. I removed the lens and tried my other lens. It still doesn

hsbn — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 17:48:30 GMT

We would need more detail. What does it do when you press the shutter button? Does it power up? Can you focus? what mode do you have a problem with or all of them? Does it give you any error message? Have you tried to test the battery?

Re: My Cannon Rebel T1i stopped shooting. I removed the lens and tried my other lens. It still doesn

ebiggs1 — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 21:07:22 GMT

OK we know it is not the lens. Next get a new battery and fully charge it. Make sure it is fully charged. That will eliminate the battery and charger.

Re: My Cannon Rebel T1i stopped shooting. I removed the lens and tried my other lens. It still doesn

TCampbell — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 05:22:28 GMT

As a test (this is just a "test" -- not a fix), please switch the lens to "manual focus" (swith the AF/MF switch on the lens to the MF position) and try taking a photo (it does not matter if you focus or not). Let us know if the camera shoots -- that's all we want to know.

If the T1i is in it's default "One Shot" mode and the lens is in the AF position, then it will ONLY take a shot if it can confirm that it has locked focus on at least one AF point. If either the lens is in MF mode -or- if the camera is switched to "AI Servo" focusing mode then it will take a shot whenever the shutter button is fully pressed and it will do this whether the camera was focused or not.

That means this is a simple way to determine if the reason the camera is refusing to shoot is becuase it cannot focus.