Canon EOS Rebel T3 not taking out pictures

[ricki2014]

I have my camera since 2010. lastweek I tried taking out pictures and realise I wasnt getting a focus but I took a picture. Now today, I am pressing the shutter button but nothing.

I have a stock lense EFS 18-55MM and its on the Canon EOS Rebel T3.

I took the lense out and cleaned the contacts, and replaced the lense, this did not helped. I also did a manual reset on the features but that didnt help either.

Please help me.

[ricki2014]

Hey,

I inserted the battery this morning and I wasnt prompted for a time to change. I had to check manually the time and do a change. I them proceed to take a picture out and the promble is still there.

I will hold on and take it to a Canon technician to repair.

Thank you.

[ricki2014]

Good day folks.

So its been about a week or two now. I put back the battery in the camera from since I took it out. When I power it on, everythin comes on normal. I was not prompted for any date and time set.

I tried to take a picture but Problem still exist. I am tryingto find out where in my country that does repairs to Canon DSLR cameras. I havent been called back yet. If I cant get a reliable technician here I will ship to the US, most closest repair centre and have it check out.

[ervsch]

I found these forums searching through Google for the same issue  - didn't look like anything listed would help short of sending the camera to Canon for a repair...

Then - I manually exercised the part of the lens that automatically extends/retracts to focus in auto mode (no idea what it's called).  Twisted this mechanism in and out about 3 times - and then the camera started working as normal again.  Maybe it was just stuck? 

Anyway - that's my solution and i'm sticking with it - until of course the camera quits working again and my method doesn't fix it.

[ricki2014]

Hi thanks, will give it a try, I am still stuck at the same problem.

Will give your method a try and let you know what the success was like.

Cheers mate!!!