On 8/22/08 I was in a cemetary in Savannah trying to take pictures. As soon as I got out of the air conditioned car into the warm, very humid air (courtesy of tropical storm Fay) my camera lenses fogged up. I made the very silly error of taking off one lense to put on another, and then the inside mirrors of my camera became fogged too. I pressed the shutter button anyway to see what would happen, and the camera locked up and gave me the dreaded "err" signal.
I tried EVERYTHING. After the camera was back inside the air conditioning, I switched batteries, took out my sd card, wiped off the connection rings, pressed the reset button, etc... I finally figured out that what was wrong was that the mirror on the inside of the camera was flipped up - thus I couldn't see anything through the camera. (go to menu, wrench sign (4th icon down), then "mirror lock-up" to re-create the cirumstance... this is an option in case you need to clean the inside of the camera, while protecting the internal mirrors). Unfortunately in my case, the camera had locked the mirror up itself, and wouldn't even give me the option of putting it back down through the menu (that menu item was greyed out, I couldn't select it).
I'm not really sure what I did differently but I did end up fixing it. Christina, IF your mirror is locked up, try this. Turn the camera off, take the battery out, take the SD card out, take the lens off. Press the reset button on the bottom of the camera (required a pen). Put on a DIFFERENT lens, put the battery and sd card back in, turn the camera on. Take the lense cap off, ignore the error sign, and PRESS THE SHUTTER BUTTON.
All of a sudden, the camera took a picture. Now it's totally fine. I just wish I knew why!
HELP! Nikon D50 Err....
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On 8/22/08 I was in a cemetary in Savannah trying to take pictures. As soon as I got out of the air conditioned car into the warm, very humid air (courtesy of tropical storm Fay) my camera lenses fogged up. I made the very silly error of taking off one lense to put on another, and then the inside mirrors of my camera became fogged too. I pressed the shutter button anyway to see what would happen, and the camera locked up and gave me the dreaded "err" signal.
I tried EVERYTHING. After the camera was back inside the air conditioning, I switched batteries, took out my sd card, wiped off the connection rings, pressed the reset button, etc... I finally figured out that what was wrong was that the mirror on the inside of the camera was flipped up - thus I couldn't see anything through the camera. (go to menu, wrench sign (4th icon down), then "mirror lock-up" to re-create the cirumstance... this is an option in case you need to clean the inside of the camera, while protecting the internal mirrors). Unfortunately in my case, the camera had locked the mirror up itself, and wouldn't even give me the option of putting it back down through the menu (that menu item was greyed out, I couldn't select it).
I'm not really sure what I did differently but I did end up fixing it. Christina, IF your mirror is locked up, try this. Turn the camera off, take the battery out, take the SD card out, take the lens off. Press the reset button on the bottom of the camera (required a pen). Put on a DIFFERENT lens, put the battery and sd card back in, turn the camera on. Take the lense cap off, ignore the error sign, and PRESS THE SHUTTER BUTTON.
All of a sudden, the camera took a picture. Now it's totally fine. I just wish I knew why!