hi im new to photography and im having trouble with the 50mm lens.

hey i just bought a nikon D7000 and i also bought the 50mm lens because i heard good thinks about it. idk what im doing wrong but it will only let me take a picture when its on U1 or U2. can anyone help me with this issue? i thought it would let me take a picture when its on auto but it wont let me.

Which 50mm? A description off the lens will help - for example, one of mine is AF S Nikkor 50mm 1:1.8G.

If its a D, is the aperture locked on F22? I think it has to be locked on F22 in all modes. Edited October 22, 2018 by Sanford

As a first step, try turning AF off with the switch on the front of the camera. Manually focus, and shoot. If it works, you can guess that it's an AF setting. If that's the case, make sure that AF is set to release priority, not focus priority, and that the focus point has not accidentally been moved up to the sky.

 

U1 and U2 are user-saved settings, so maybe you can figure out what those settings are to find out why they work when others don't.

Set to U1 or 2 and press info and all the settings will show.

Set to U1 or 2 and press info and all the settings will show.

 

- Thanks Sandy. I didn't know you could do that.

 

I've completely forgotten what settings I have in U1 & 2, and a note of them will be useful. I guess it's also stored on the memory card somewhere?

I don't think U settings are stored on the memory card. On the D7100 at least one can store settings on the card, and retrieve them through the menu, ,but they are not the U settings, which reside only in the camera.

but they are not the U settings, which reside only in the camera.

 

- That's a bit rubbish if you can't back up the user settings.

You can back up a User setting from the menu but it doesn't back up to the card automatically. You can only have one backed up setting on a card, it seems, so ordinarily I'd not see the point of it, since the U settings persist unless you reset them or the camera. Whatever changes you make while in a U mode are lost when you exit it.

You can back up a User setting from the menu but it doesn't back up to the card automatically.

 

- OK. Thanks for the memory-jog Matthew. I vaguely remember doing that now.

 

I use the U1 setting to quickly put the camera into manual - off camera - flash mode: Manual control with a shutter speed of 1/200th, flash WB, etc. So it wouldn't be any big deal to put those parameters in again; just irksome.

Does anything happen? Any error messages? Any lens movement or sounds?

 

Do a Hard Reset and it should all be dandy.

Do a Hard Reset and it should all be dandy.

 

Maybe not in this case.... Well, my guess of what is going wrong here: the lens is the AF-D 50mm f/1.8 and the aperture is not set to the smallest (f/22 on this lens). U1 and U2 settings have the option to use the aperture ring enabled, but the other modes do not. Else, A and M mode should both also work just fine. So, put the aperture ring on f/22, and all should be dandy. Do a camera reset afterwards all the same, so that all settings are default, making the user manual a lot easier to follow.

 

Of course, this is full of assumptions, but not unlikely. The key info to know is the exact model 50mm, but in short, if it has an aperture ring, the above scenario will work.

Agreed, but i would have though the OP might have noticed the Error message flashing on the top LCD panel?

 

My guess is the 'no AF confirm, no shutter trip' theory!

 

IIRC Release Priority is the default position.

Any progress on which version of 50mm lens this is?

rosshannibal was last seen: Oct 22, 2018

 

Think the OP has given up on it or sorted the problem.

Think the OP has given up on it or sorted the problem.

I know there's no absolute requirement to reply to a post you started but these 'no returns' can get kinda annoying when it would be nice to know the right answer for when it happens to someone else.

 

This thread will be findable by others who have a similar problem and, sure, they get to read our questions/suggestions but it's an UNSOLVED issue....:(

 

"rosshannibal was last seen: Yesterday at 3:54 AM"

 

.............but not at this thread.

Edited October 31, 2018 by mike_halliwell