What on earth happened???

Nephila

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5 Mar 2012 - 4:01 PM

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I have a Canon EOS 550D and was using a tamron Di VC USD 70-300mm lens for shooting rabbits or something like that. Anyways, the sun was setting and it was so pretty that I decided to take a few pictures of it and didn't think to change my lens. All went well until a few shots in my viewfinder went dark and AF points would not illuminate and, basically, my camera became pretty much unresponsive. Thinking that it was just the new lens I was using, I changed lenses and everything seemed to go back to normal. Thankfully my camera's been alright since but for a while I really thought my camare had died on me Can anyone tell me what happened here?

Nephila

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5 Mar 2012 - 7:32 PM

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Live view not activated as I don't like to shoot using live view on my dslr. Think I did try switchingit on and off but to no avail so then decided to change lenses thinking that it was something to do with the new lens that I'd just bought. Nothing like that has ever happned like that before and I can't seem to find an explanation in my canon instruction book. It probably sounds ridiculous but I was worried, because I'd been taking pictures of a sunset, I thought I'd burnt out my sensor or something, a bit like you do with your eyes if you look at the sun too long, was worried that I'd done permanent damage

Nephila

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6 Mar 2012 - 10:44 AM

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No, no error message came up. and I didn't press the shutter button during a long exposure, I know this for sure as I don't ahve a tripod yet so no long exposures for me yet.

adrian_w (e2 Member)

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6 Mar 2012 - 12:51 PM

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Was that a one-off event, or does it happen whenever you use that particular lens?
Don't worry about burning out the sensor, that won't happen with sunset/sunrise shots.

Nephila

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6 Mar 2012 - 9:58 PM

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It's never happened again, thankfully and my camera and lens seem perfectly happy together now I was just curious. But I have had error messages come up with that lens though, saying that the contact between camera and lens is dirty or something. But that's only happened about twice and I appreciate that such complicated equipment will screw up sometimes. Thank you for all your suggestions

Nephila

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2 Apr 2012 - 10:00 PM

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Hi, was just passing through and thought that I'd mention that it was my lens being dodgy. It's been giving me even more problems and now it's in for repair for about 3-4 weeks Am worried my lens might be a bit of a lemon, anyone have experience of having their lenses repaired, is it likely to go wrong again? I don't mean this question in a psychic kind of way, only that lens are pretty complex and am wondering if Tamron will have nay odea what's really going wrong :-(