EOS Rebel XS saying busy and won't take pictures

[mliz2486]

My camera worked fine the other day.  Now, it won't take pictures at all.  When I go to take a picture, it will act like it is focusing by flashing and such but it will never go through.  It always says busy.  I have tried all modes, and none will work not even without flash. 

I have also taken the battery out, taken the card out and reformatted it, and cleared all camera settings.  Can anyone help?  I have a newborn that I would really like to be able to capture. 🙂

Thank you ahead of time!

[Jea]

Hello. Can you please help to solve my problem. My canon eos T1i has a problem when im capturing in a AF mode the camera says busy with the symbol of a flash. Then if i use the MF mode it works. Why is this happening to my dslr? Please help me, answer my question please. Is my dslr okay? Is my dslr will work properly again?

thanks.

[Thelay]

Hi.
I'm new here. I have this Rebel T4i. It's working perfectly until yesterday. It won't take pictures in AF. Can take photos in MF but blurred. Unable to lock focus. And everytime i click on the shutter it's not working and sometimes shows 'busy' error. Can only take blurred photos in MF and in AI SERVO mode. Please help.

[NashvilleSuz]

Take and reformat you card in the camera and see if that helps get everything working smoothly again.

If this does help, then you need to get a faster card (Class 10) to use in it all the time.

[Thelay]

Hi. Im confuse. What dos the cars have to done with it? Tried to take photos outside early in the morning but still it won't take photos in AF and blurred in MF. Tried to remove the lens. Shutterworks but of course photo os just plain white.

[Thelay]

Card*

[NashvilleSuz]

Card...does that mean your camera is working now?

[Thelay]

My current card is kingston 8gb (class 10). No still not working.

[NashvilleSuz]

1. Take out the battery.

2. Take out the card.

3. I use Hepa Jet ll and blow air into card and battery slot with camera held upright and openings on the bottom so if there are any specks, they fall out.

4. Put the battery back in making certain it is fully charged. Are you using Canon brand or other brand?

5. Put the card back in and format it IN THE CAMERA.

6. Remove lens and put it back on.

7. Check to make certain lens is set to AF and not MF. Click it back and forth a couple times between AF & MF.

8. Try a different lens.

9. Try different settings on your camera i.e. (green) A+ and P and see if that makes a difference.

10. Check menu to see what firmware version you have... mine is 1.0.4   Update yours if need be.

11. Just a random shot in the dark, make certain you haven't changed your focus to "back focus". I have one camera I use this feature on and one I just use regular "push the shutter release button part way to facus".

That's the list I would use if I were you and then take it to a camera repair shop in person and see if they have any further suggestions.

NOTE: Some people subscribe to the shake the camera in an extreme manner and shout out various $#&**%$ words. I have not found this technique to work in fixing the camera but it feels like one is at least being pro-active. YMMV.

[Thelay]

Thank you so much. Will try those once i get home and will let you know again. 😊

[Solanum]

I'm just going to piggyback on this topic rather than create a new one.

I have a brand new Canon EOS Rebel T5 with the stock  EF-S 18-55mm IS lens. While shooting outside on a lightly cloudy day, in manual focus mode, I constantly (maybe 1 in 5 photos) get a "busy" message along with the flash symbol. This lasts for about 5 seconds, just long enough for me to miss my shot.

I have removed the battery, cleaned everything, reformatted the memory card, etc...still the same error message. 

I would really appreciate some help with this, as I said, it's not even 5 days old, so I really hope it's not malfunctioning already.

Thanks in advance, Canon gurus!