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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Moab Man" data-source="post: 159911" data-attributes="member: 11881">The camera will not take the picture if it can't focus. Manual focus is the only override. But you have figured this out. Your options. Bring up the lighting where you are going to be shooting. Or, you need a prime lens that will allow for a wider (lower number) aperture to allow more light in for auto focus but now your depth of field is becoming shallow. Higher end cameras do better in lower light but they cost.Prime recommendation would be a 35mm and NOT the 50mm. 50mm is for full frame cameras meaning on your DX camera that 50mm is more like 75mm and you might have difficulty getting close enough to your intended picture. 35mm is for the DX camera and you can get much closer. I have both lenses I have mentioned and I find the 50mm just does not nail the focus as consistently as the 35mm.</blockquote>