topic Re: t4i screen shuts off in EOS DSLR & Mirrorless Cameras

t4i screen shuts off

chief — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 23:31:13 GMT

the screen will shut off fairly often and pressing shutter halfway does not turn it back on.also after taking picture it will appear on screen for second or less and screen will shut off.I have tried replacing with newly charged battery but that does not seem to matter.sometimes you put you eye up to viewfinder and screen will shut down as it is suppose to but when you back away it does not come back on or will shutter halfway turn it back on.It does not do this all the time but enough to be frustrating

Re: t4i screen shuts off

Skirball — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 00:29:40 GMT

If you press "play" do the images stay on the screen? If so you probably have it selected to turn off the screen (after the preview) while shooting. Push the "Info" button to cycle through the options. Not sure exactly what they are on a T4i, but probally something like (Settings Screen, Histogram, Off,...) Also, under the settings you can probably choose how long you want the preview to stay up for.

Re: t4i screen shuts off

TCampbell — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 01:49:21 GMT

This is a camera setting.

The "Info" button on the back of the camera decides what to display on the rear LCD. As you repeatedly press the "Info" button it will toggles between several options -- one option is to have the rear LCD screen go blank (which saves power).

Press the Info button until it displays what you'd like to see (the factory default is to display the shooting information.)

There's also a timer for image review after taking a photo. You can adjust the timer to decide how long you want the camera to wait while you review the image (you can also just hit the playback button to review images -- and these aren't effected by the review timer.)

Re: t4i screen shuts off

chief — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 02:09:11 GMT

Yes they do I also have image to stay on for 4 seconds as I said before this does not happen all the time also when looking through viewfinder screen shuts off as it is designed to do but screen will not turn back on when you move away from viewfinder once again this does not happen all the time

Re: t4i screen shuts off

chief — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 02:30:52 GMT

Tim I think you solved my problem.I have been taking some long exposures of stars moon and space station as it passes over and I probably hit info button in dark when going for menus button we will see thank you kindly

Re: t4i screen shuts off

Skirball — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 14:55:29 GMT

That's weird, I thought Tim said exactly what I did.

Re: t4i screen shuts off

chief — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 19:22:48 GMT

Sorry you did say same my bad

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eabanks — Sat, 07 Dec 2013 01:30:56 GMT

Hi! I have a canon rebel t4i and my image preview won't work at all after I take a shot. I have the review setting set to 4 seconds. I have reset the factory settings and I have changed the battery. Nothing is working. It looks like you had a similiar problem. Can you tell me how you fixed it. I can't find the settings that were suggested to you.

Re: t4i screen shuts off

chief — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 20:38:09 GMT

I will try on back of camera to left and top of view screen there are 2 buttons one is info the other is menu.The info button is one you want it has 3 settings just press and it takes you to the one you want.My problem is that when you are in darkness the eye sensor always keeps screen light from lighting up, so it does not destroy your night sight.Which is opposite with what happens guring daylight.You put your eve to view finder and the sensor turns off screen, then when you move away it lights back up.Takes a while to get use to it in darkness.Hope this helps.

Re: t4i screen shuts off

eabanks — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 21:02:26 GMT

My info button doesn't give me but one option. My screen won't come on or let me preview an image after I take a shot. I can press the "play" button button to see the image but it used to do it automatically. I'm kinda at a loss.

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chief — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 16:41:28 GMT

that is weird mine has 3 options do not know what to say,a thought comes to mind maybe your camera is a knock off????Or is it a T4??? I have never heard of a knock off but.....also when I was shopping for a T$i I was at Wal Mart and they had T4 for really cheap and i thought what is this, I then went home and researched and found out it is a Canon but just not the T4i just a cheaper verson with not all the extras a true T4I has.where did you buy it?

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eabanks — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 12:46:06 GMT

My son bought it from the Camera store he uses in Nashville, TN. He is a professional photographer so its the real deal. However yesterday it just fixed itself somehow . . . . . weird . . . .

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scase4250 — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 17:35:22 GMT

I had the same problem. The display would not show an image review, pushing the shutter release half-way did not produce a settings menu and the only way I could get the display to react was (1) to push the blue play button to view the last image or (2) to push the DISP button a few times to get a summary of settings or (3) to push the MENU button to get the settings menus.

I tried all of the suggestions, including full factory reset. No good. Turns out, the small rubber eye-piece protector frame had been bumped and had slid up a fraction of an inch - enough to trigger the display cutout which occurs when you have your eye up to the eye piece - but not enough to be obvious nor to prevent a view through the viewfinder.

Pushed the eye-piece protector back down and all functions returned to normal. Hope this helps anyone having a similar problem.

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zone5 — Sat, 14 Jun 2014 17:17:41 GMT

Thank you! I had tried all of the suggestions and was getting nothing. Then I saw your post, and that is what it was. Thank you!!!

Re: t4i screen shuts off

Maarten2014 — Mon, 14 Jul 2014 21:34:27 GMT

You just saved my day. I was about ready to send my camera back for repair

Thank you sir!

Regards,

Maarten

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thecharliescott — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 00:44:00 GMT

Yes!

Thank you all! I, also, was about to send my camera in. Recently, when shooting a wedding, this problem began to intermittently (doncha hate that?) occur.

I had recently purchased an eyepiece extender, which I really liked. I was shooting at a party last night, and, while this event wasn't a do or die, I was very disspirited to fight it.

Once I pushed the extender down firmly, (today) the problem disappeared.

Yea!

theCharlie

Re: t4i screen shuts off

alveron1 — Fri, 08 May 2015 14:40:09 GMT

Wonderful. We have read the entire manual and you solved such simple but frustrating problem. Thank you.

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alveron1 — Fri, 08 May 2015 14:42:03 GMT

Re: t4i screen shuts off

adebisad — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 17:00:19 GMT

Hi,

Though this post is many years old, its still much relevant.
I have same issue on my EOS T4i but the difference is that the camera settings information does not show on the screen even if I change the camera mode. Every other thing gets displayed on the screen. How do I resolve this please? Pressing the info button appears not resolving the issue.

Thanks