Re: Canon EOS Stops Taking Photos

"Halfordian Golfer" <walketim@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Feb 25, 7:16 am, "Garry Douglas" <ga...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "Halfordian Golfer" <walke...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > Hi Guys,
>>
>> > Hope someone can help. I have a Canon Digital Rebel EOS camera that I
>> > really like. Here's my question. I was shooting at a 1 year old's
>> > birthday party last night in a restaurant (Casa Bonita) and there
>> > where times where the shutter would not trigger. My assumption is
that
>> > the camera thought it was too dark or couldn't find any focus points
>> > or something. When I'd press the shutter, I'd see a "Busy" in the
>> > viewfinder and a fully colored circle in the display. I had a problem
>> > with a Sigma lens getting an Err99 but that is off to be fixed and I
>> > can't think of anything related between these events. It's like the
>> > DSLR just goes to lunch sometimes. Oddly powering off/on would no
>> > avail, but I did get a reset removing the battery.
>>
>> > Any help or thoughts very, very much appreciated.
>>
>> > Sincerely,
>>
>> > Tim
>>
>> Did you try switching the lens to manual focus to see if that fixed it?

>> If
>> the shutter still didn't fire when the lens is set to MF that would 
>> probably
>> eliminate an inability to obtain focus as the cause of the problem.
>
> Thank you all for your replies. This will give me a lot to try in the
> future. Definitely need to get some clean CF cards as well as spare
> batteries and realize that the flash takes a while to recharge. The
> Err99 was an incompatible Sigma 70/300 Super Macro. I sent that back
> to Sigma for re-chipping.
>
> Excellent you guys, thank you very much. I am indebted.
>

Don't feel indebted Tim. If we all send you our banking details please
feel 
free to clear the debt :-)

Garry