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<blockquote data-quote="DJM1981" data-source="post: 840165" data-attributes="member: 65705">Hi thereI would appreciate a bit of help with my camera. D5100 I purchased the camera body in perfect working order however the seller said that the camera would only work in manual mode. I suspected from the description that he was unsure even if he had the correct lens in the first place. I took a gamble and received the camera without any lens however he included two nikon batteries and charger. I purchased a lens witch I assume is compatible to make things work in auto. Don't get me wrong manual is a good thing to make me learn photography in general and the camera does indeed work manually with this lens. But for some reason or another I get an error message saying lens not attached. I understand the reasons why it comes up with this error.. the lens or camera can not communicate to each other. So how does one go about sorting out this issue <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤔" title="Thinking face&nbsp; &nbsp; :thinking:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f914.png" data-shortname=":thinking:" /> . I've tried cleaning the contacts on the camera and lens and they look perfect to me. However to my untrained eye maybe there could be issues. I've taken a photo of the lens to see if its compatible or not and the contact points in the camera. Any help would be Appreciated.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DJM1981, post: 840165, member: 65705"] Hi there I would appreciate a bit of help with my camera. D5100 I purchased the camera body in perfect working order however the seller said that the camera would only work in manual mode. I suspected from the description that he was unsure even if he had the correct lens in the first place. I took a gamble and received the camera without any lens however he included two nikon batteries and charger. I purchased a lens witch I assume is compatible to make things work in auto. Don't get me wrong manual is a good thing to make me learn photography in general and the camera does indeed work manually with this lens. But for some reason or another I get an error message saying lens not attached. I understand the reasons why it comes up with this error.. the lens or camera can not communicate to each other. So how does one go about sorting out this issue 🤔 . I've tried cleaning the contacts on the camera and lens and they look perfect to me. However to my untrained eye maybe there could be issues. I've taken a photo of the lens to see if its compatible or not and the contact points in the camera. Any help would be Appreciated. [/QUOTE]

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