DisneySuiteFreak
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- Aug 4, 2007
5 minutes before my DD's 7th birthday party today, I took out my camera (Nikon D50)...... went to start taking pics (on auto focus) and the lens will NOT focus... keeps going in and out... it just won't be happy and find a focal point???? I tried switching over to my 55-200mm lens to see if it was the lens or the camera.... THAT lens worked fine, but for indoors, it was just not able to be used because I needed more distance. I had to rely on my little Canon Powershot for pics (so glad I at least had a back-up!!!) I tried blowing any dust out from inside the camera body.... wiped down both ends of the lens w/ my lens cloth...changing the camera battery.... NADA. Can't get it to work? My Ritz camera closed down near me-that's where I used to go when I had any issues because there was a VERY savvy camera guy there.... I don't know what else to do other than to buy a new lens but I was hoping to hold off to buy the D90 next year....??? Thoughts? suggestions??? Thanks in advance!!!!!
When you say the 55-200 worked fine but couldn't be used indoors because you needed more distance, where were you when you tested out the 55-200? Were you outdoors? Did you try to test your 18-55 outdoors to see if it would focus? Usually if it's zooming in and out it's trying to achieve focus but it could be that with the kit lens you didn't have enough light indoors to do that. Did you try bumping up the ISO or double checking where the AF point is placed in your viewfinder? Also, ditto-ing Jeff, you could Manual Focus...