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ashby
May-28-2005, 11:16 AM
Is there a reason why I cannot get any mode of autofocus in the creative zone? Several lenses, all in auto, work fine in basic zone, nothing in creative. Camera? Operator? Technique?

Thanks.

Hal
wxwax
May-28-2005, 06:02 PM
Canon 20D, right?
ashby
May-31-2005, 03:57 PM
Sorry Sid, yes it is a 20D. I was literally out the door to take pictures of my niece's wedding and couldn't figure out the problem. (Not the offical photog, thank goodness). Finally, in desperation, I reset custom functions to zero and everything worked OK. Still cannot figure out the problem. No focus in any auto mode in creative and unable to take RAW. After the reset, everything was OK and I did get a few good picts.

Thanks for your efforts. Still wearing the BMW summer pants? :):

Hal
wxwax
May-31-2005, 04:07 PM
Sorry Sid, yes it is a 20D. I was literally out the door to take pictures of my niece's wedding and couldn't figure out the problem. (Not the offical photog, thank goodness). Finally, in desperation, I reset custom functions to zero and everything worked OK. Still cannot figure out the problem. No focus in any auto mode in creative and unable to take RAW. After the reset, everything was OK and I did get a few good picts.

Thanks for your efforts. Still wearing the BMW summer pants? :):

Hal
:nod Jeebus, did I buy them from you? :lol3
ashby
May-31-2005, 04:09 PM
:nod Any ideas as to what I might have done?
wxwax
May-31-2005, 04:20 PM
:nod Any ideas as to what I might have done?
Dang I have a bad memory!

No, no idea. I'd hafta study your camera's custom settings to figure it out. I assume you're the original owner and this never happened before? Is it possible that the menu got bumped over to custom settings, one of which might include manual only focus? :dunno
ashby
May-31-2005, 06:26 PM
Still can't figure it out. Some of the custom modes are confusing to me, but in any case, what mode would affect both the auto-focus and capturing RAW? Maybe Canon can tell me. :dunno
tlittleton
May-31-2005, 08:12 PM
Still can't figure it out. Some of the custom modes are confusing to me, but in any case, what mode would affect both the auto-focus and capturing RAW? Maybe Canon can tell me. :dunno
I only have the 10D, but I know when I started switching some options, at one point I lost track of what I did and just reset the camera back to full factory defaults. I popped the main battery and the backup litium battery. I don't know if that's an "approved" Canon method for doing that, but it worked. I just had to go back and set date & time and such back up.