02-14-2015 07:49 PM
Up until yesterday, I have had no problems taking pictures - I'm fairly new with a DSLR, (the T3i is my first), and yesterday I was watching a video tutorial on this particular camera. I went through the camera settings along with the instructor, through the menu settings, etc. Today I cannot get the shutter to work the way it's supposed to!
If I hold the shutter release half-way, I get the autofocus to work as usual, but when I continue to push it the rest of the way down, the shutter closes. I have to press the shutter release a second time before I get a photo. I went into the custom functions and cleared all settings, (in case I had unwittingly set something that I didn't know I'd done ), but I still have to press the shutter release twice.
Does anyone know what happened, or what I'm doing or not doing??
TIA!
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02-14-2015 08:59 PM
@cicopo wrote:Sounds like you've set it for MIRROR LOCK UP if you're getting a photo on the second press.
Thanks! That was the problem! I thought I had cleared up all the changes I'd made, but apparently not -
02-14-2015 08:16 PM
Sounds like you've set it for MIRROR LOCK UP if you're getting a photo on the second press.
02-14-2015 08:59 PM
@cicopo wrote:Sounds like you've set it for MIRROR LOCK UP if you're getting a photo on the second press.
Thanks! That was the problem! I thought I had cleared up all the changes I'd made, but apparently not -
02-14-2015 09:31 PM
You're welcome. Glad it was an easy fix.
02-15-2015 10:30 AM
"I'm fairly new with a DSLR,"
Why were you in mirror lock up? It is a more advanced setting. And I would look for a new instructor if he/she did not see that right off!
02-15-2015 01:02 PM
@ebiggs1 wrote:"I'm fairly new with a DSLR,"
Why were you in mirror lock up? It is a more advanced setting. And I would look for a new instructor if he/she did not see that right off!
Er... I don't believe he said he was with the instructor when the problem occurred. (Note: "yesterday" vs "today")
Indeed, was he "with" the instructor at all? It was a video, no?
02-15-2015 04:12 PM
Bob from Boston,
Not the way I read it.
"I went through the camera settings along with the instructor, through the menu settings, etc. Today I cannot get the shutter to work the way it's supposed to! "
Some form of communications is missing though!
02-15-2015 07:12 PM
@RobertTheFat wrote:
@ebiggs1 wrote:"I'm fairly new with a DSLR,"
Why were you in mirror lock up? It is a more advanced setting. And I would look for a new instructor if he/she did not see that right off!
Er... I don't believe he said he was with the instructor when the problem occurred. (Note: "yesterday" vs "today")
Indeed, was he "with" the instructor at all? It was a video, no?
To clear up any misunderstanding - the online video was going through camera settings, - all the buttons and menu items, explaining what they did. I was going along with the video, trying to find the settings and seeing if I could do the same thing. I wasn't aware that I had engaged mirror lock-up, but I still went to "clear camera settings", thinking it would re-set any "oops" I may have done. Apparently I had engaged the mirror lock-up unknowingly, and either clearing the camera settings didn't affect the lock-up, or I really didn't get the settings cleared! lol Whatever it was, I was inadvertently and unknowingly still in mirror lock-up - an easy fix once cicopo identified it for me!!
Thank you to all who took the time and trouble to respond - as a beginner, I really appreciate your responding to my (to you, I'm sure!) pretty simplistic problem!
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