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Posted on May 13, 2009
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Nikon D40 problem, often will not take pictures

Will attempt to take what should be a point and shoot type picture and when I press shutter button it doesn't do anything. Battery is fully charged, memory contains no pictures, plenty of natural light. Playing with the camera I thought I had an answer by setting 18 -55 lens to 18 and it appeared to work for several pictures but 5 minutes later back to original problem. Have used the camera on several trips and not had any problems, I performed a 'reset' function to restore defaults in case I inadvertently changed something but still no solution.

Chuck

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  • cstrang May 13, 2009

    Excellent question and I should have noticed, nothing happens when depressing shutter halfway.

  • cstrang May 15, 2009

    I checked and double checked this, everything obvious seems to be right.

  • Anonymous May 11, 2010

    But are you then able to take a picture? If so the problem was related to focus and not a problem with the camera or settings..

    If not the intermittent problem could be associated by the specific mode selected for pictures on my cam - Can you try it in Auto mode and see what issues it comes back if any?

  • Anonymous May 11, 2010

    What happens when you press the shoot button halfway for a couple of seconds and then press all the way?

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Chuck,

Sounds like your lens might be set to M rather than M/A. Try that and let me know.

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