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<blockquote data-quote="WayneF" data-source="post: 463423" data-attributes="member: 12496">Welcome to the forum.Guessing, but I suspect it is a focus issue?Viewfinder shows the green dot (lower left viewfinder), indicating the camera found focus.&nbsp; The default options will prevent shutter operation unless focus is found, and the green dot is showing&nbsp; &nbsp; (normally is a very good thing to wait for focus first).I don't think the green dot shows on the Live View screen, so some experimenting holding shutter half press may be necessary to determine if it actually finds focus in those Live View situations.&nbsp; Try very close and then distant points, so you can see things changing as it focuses (wide angle lenses tend to not show great difference, but there is a point called &quot;in focus&quot; when the shutter will operate). You can &quot;zoom&quot; the Live View rear screen to see the subject details much more clear, to examine focus.&nbsp;Focus is considerably slower in Live View... give it a couple of seconds while watching screen for focus. Shutter should work if it finds focus.Live View and Viewfinder have very different methods of focusing. Viewfinder uses special phase detection cells in the viewfinder, very fast. All Live View can do is to experiment with focus and then examine contrast in the actual image pixels to determine best point, rather slow.&nbsp; Live View is a different world.Live view has its own set of AF-S, AF-C, Face Detect, etc, etc .. options and settings than does the view finder.&nbsp; Start at page 119 D5300 Reference manual&nbsp; ( <a href="http://downloadcenter.nikonimglib.com/en/products/25/D5300.html" target="_blank">Nikon | Download center | D5300</a> )</blockquote>

[QUOTE="WayneF, post: 463423, member: 12496"] Welcome to the forum. Guessing, but I suspect it is a focus issue? Viewfinder shows the green dot (lower left viewfinder), indicating the camera found focus. The default options will prevent shutter operation unless focus is found, and the green dot is showing (normally is a very good thing to wait for focus first). I don't think the green dot shows on the Live View screen, so some experimenting holding shutter half press may be necessary to determine if it actually finds focus in those Live View situations. Try very close and then distant points, so you can see things changing as it focuses (wide angle lenses tend to not show great difference, but there is a point called "in focus" when the shutter will operate). You can "zoom" the Live View rear screen to see the subject details much more clear, to examine focus. Focus is considerably slower in Live View... give it a couple of seconds while watching screen for focus. Shutter should work if it finds focus. Live View and Viewfinder have very different methods of focusing. Viewfinder uses special phase detection cells in the viewfinder, very fast. All Live View can do is to experiment with focus and then examine contrast in the actual image pixels to determine best point, rather slow. Live View is a different world. Live view has its own set of AF-S, AF-C, Face Detect, etc, etc .. options and settings than does the view finder. Start at page 119 D5300 Reference manual ( [url=http://downloadcenter.nikonimglib.com/en/products/25/D5300.html]Nikon | Download center | D5300[/url] ) [/QUOTE]

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