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

[isabelhines]

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

[hsbn]

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?

[ebiggs1]

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.

[TCampbell]

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.