--- "Denise E. Kissinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was using my 70-200L the other evening and it quit working. > Thought > it was my camera and checked it and it wasn't so I switched lens and > realized it was the first lens. It was getting dark and when I > depressed the shutter button I could see the red light under the lens > cover but nothing happened. Didn't focus or move or anything. > Switched from auto to manual and tried everything I could think of, > cleaning the contacts. After about 20 minutes it finally worked > again. What do you think happened?
Contacts could be one reason but you say you have cleaned them. Low level light is probably not the reason (even if the lens hood has blocked the AF assistent light) as the camera still should make an attempt to focus. Now if the cameras 'thinks' the object is closer then your minimum focusing distance and you are already at that distance then nothing will happen. Another reason could be that your lens was set to 3m-infinity but the focusing distance was set closer to that (either by you are when you took the camera out of your camera bag). In that case the camera does not move the lens automatically out into the 3-infinity range but it simple doesn't do anything. Robert __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Greetings - send holiday greetings for Easter, Passover http://greetings.yahoo.com/ * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
