During the past week, I was out a couple of times to take photos. I haven't taken many outdoors lately because I've spent a lot of time over the past year working on a church calendar.
Sunday afternoon I decided to just do it. Had a beautiful image in my viewfinder with the sun's ray coming down on the river so I clicked the shutter button. I heard the mirror go up then everything went silent. Huh? I looked through the viewfinder and everything was black. Of course I'm a goober so I turned it around to make sure the lens cap wasn't on! :loyal: Yes, I actually did. The top display said ERR. Uh-oh!
Pressing the shutter button didn't clear it so I turned the camera on, turned it off, turned it on, turned it off. Nope. Nope. Nope. NOPE! Nothing worked. There was still an err message on the top. *sigh*
Next I looked everything over. Wait! What?!! The VR was on even though I hadn't turned it on. Hmm.... While the camera was off, I flipped off the VR switch then turned the camera back on. CLINK! The mirror dropped back down and all was well.
Obviously I forgot to turn off the VR when I last used this lens even though I always try to make sure it is off. I never turn the camera off immediately after taking a photo so even if I had left the VR on, it shouldn't have been engaged when the body was turned off. So...just a heads-up to those of you who leave your VR on. Once the problem was fixed, the camera/lens performed flawlessly. And I only have 2552 shutter actuations on this body. In the past I've forgotten to turn off the VR only a couple of times before turning off the body...and this might have been the first time with this body, but it's never posed a problem in the past any of the other times I've forgotten. So just beware and know leaving the VR on can cause problems.
Sunday afternoon I decided to just do it. Had a beautiful image in my viewfinder with the sun's ray coming down on the river so I clicked the shutter button. I heard the mirror go up then everything went silent. Huh? I looked through the viewfinder and everything was black. Of course I'm a goober so I turned it around to make sure the lens cap wasn't on! :loyal: Yes, I actually did. The top display said ERR. Uh-oh!
Pressing the shutter button didn't clear it so I turned the camera on, turned it off, turned it on, turned it off. Nope. Nope. Nope. NOPE! Nothing worked. There was still an err message on the top. *sigh*
Next I looked everything over. Wait! What?!! The VR was on even though I hadn't turned it on. Hmm.... While the camera was off, I flipped off the VR switch then turned the camera back on. CLINK! The mirror dropped back down and all was well.
Obviously I forgot to turn off the VR when I last used this lens even though I always try to make sure it is off. I never turn the camera off immediately after taking a photo so even if I had left the VR on, it shouldn't have been engaged when the body was turned off. So...just a heads-up to those of you who leave your VR on. Once the problem was fixed, the camera/lens performed flawlessly. And I only have 2552 shutter actuations on this body. In the past I've forgotten to turn off the VR only a couple of times before turning off the body...and this might have been the first time with this body, but it's never posed a problem in the past any of the other times I've forgotten. So just beware and know leaving the VR on can cause problems.