I went out for a little photoshoot this evening and used my cannon 17-85 IS lens on my XTI, we were shooting for a good hour or so. I had it set on a 10 sec. timer with a 4 sec shutter speed, after the four seconds I heard the shutter close but the screen remained black and the green light above the "ON" letters stayed on, at first I thought maybe I had lengthened the shutter speed but after about 45 seconds it stayed the same way. So I starting pushing buttons and nothing happened then I turned it off still nothing the green light was still on I had to take out the battery. I turned the camera back on and everything was fine until I tried to take another picture and then the same thing happened. I tried taking off the lens and putting it back on then the memory card and also tried switching to full auto mode using flash but the same thing happened. When I got home I tried again and it only took one picture on the second try it froze up again. I switched to my 50mm and now everything is fine. Also when it froze as I took the picture you could see the picture through the viewfinder shift a little bit.


Has anyone had this problem??? Sorry for the long write up, I'm trying to be as detailed as possible.

 

it happened with my nion and wha it was the lense wasnt cliped on all the way? maybe thats whats going on with ur camera?? if not try going to ritz n tell them whats going on and see if thell let u test with one of there lenses?? hope that helps g/l bro

 

sounds like something with the lens. My xt sometimes like to lock up at times.

 

I tried it out now and everything seems to be working fine. There's no way it could have gotten too cold is there? Right now that seems to be the reasonable explaination, but then again I sure there people using this lens in freezing temps.

 

Yeah, cameras are known to operate in much colder temperatures than we have locally. I'd just forget about it and wait to see if it happens again.

Not a great solution, but the other option is to send it in for 'repair'.

 

Or throw it on the floor and put my insurance on it to good use


I'm going out for another shoot tonight so I'll see what happens then