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Strange Failings of 550D

Started Jul 30, 2018 | Discussions thread
OP eques Veteran Member • Posts: 4,113
Re: Strange Failings of 550D

User5567965101 wrote:

I recently experienced something similar at my grandson birthday. I was shooting both stills and video. A lot of the stills were great and so were the videos, but about half the stills were completely out of focus and unusable. I couldn't figure it out until I remembered that when I started shooting video I turned off the auto focus on the lens and focused manually. When I switched back to stills, I forgot to switch the auto focus back on on the lens! Complete operator error! The lens stayed at the last focus of the video shots and looked okay in the small screen on camera, but once I downloaded them onto my laptop it was immediately evident there was a major problem! Not sure if that could be your problem or not?

Sorry I didn't answer that long. I was away and have trouble to get a sample of this problem. The friend with this problem says he didn't switch to MF at all. Also the bad samples and the good ones are mixed.

I'll come back, when I got an example.

Peter

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