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NX500 "Check the Lens" Problem

Started Apr 9, 2015 | Questions thread
kypfer Contributing Member • Posts: 985
Re: NX500 "Check the Lens" Problem

icbcht wrote:

Hello everyone, I am new here, and I know now it's 2021. I also got similar problem with my NX500, I have search answer on google but still not solved, so I decide to reply here, hope I can get some tips (so sad I can't send it back to Samsung camera cs for repairment now )

I got my NX500 before it it was discontinue. I have many samsung AF lens(16mm/20mm/30mm/45mm/16-55mm/12-24mm/50-200mm)and I also adapt many MF lens to it (like M42 mount/Nikon ais mount/Leica L39 mount/Pentax PK mount/DKL mount etc.)

Recently I regret to buy a new C-NX adapter to try C mount cine lens on nx500, It turn out to be lack of infinity,and the side effecet is I got this problem.

When I put the above mentioned samsung AF lens on my NX500, it can't show the aperture (just showing "F--") , and only MF focusing is available. and then I have to keep the power on, turn lens down, it shows" lens detached", and then put it back to the body it shows"lens attached", now the AF lens work perfectly. I can still use my camera but the problem is pretty annoying cause I have to do this detach and attach each time I turn off the camera or wake up from sleeping mode.

I am sure that the pins on the body is clean, and all my af lenses are working ,but I can't still get any clue on the problem, wish I have some luck on this post.

Best Rgds.

I'd suggest that one or more of the contact pins in the camera body has got sticky, else the adaptor you had trouble with has possibly bent one or more of the pins.

Examine them carefully with a magnifier to ensure they are all straight and that they move in and out freely.

The lens attached/detached message is generated by a different contact, operated by the lens bayonet when the lens is fitted.

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