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Da 60-250 will only focus in live veiw.

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bettyswolloks
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Da 60-250 will only focus in live veiw.

Hello everyone just took a chance on a mint Pentax 60-250. The seller said it stopped working so he put it back in the box and forgot about it for a few years. It's never been sent for repair.

Now I tried a few things I'd read about, like leave it connected to the camera for a few mins to charge a capacitor. Turn the screw drive screw. Clean The contacts. And press the AF button while moving the focus ring. It focused a couple of times, that was it. Until I gave the AF/MF switch a vigorous switching and put it in live view. It now works perfect, but only in live view!

Any of you lovely people got any ideas before I sent it off for a service.

Cheers,

Daz.

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