Question about Pentax *ist D Digital Camera

Auto focus quit working

The auto-focus is not working...have I disengaged something....on vacation and do not have manual with me...everything else appears to be working

gasman1065 Oct 04, 2008

hi i have eos 40d and my sigma lens has stopped working on autofocus i just keep getting a clicking noise but it works on manual, anybody have any ideas please

Thanks

Alan

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Make sure you have not set a dial control to say manual focus or Macro focus. Run through the menu's on the screen to see if you have inadvertantly changed sometihg. As you are computing - give Pentax Technical Support Team a a go on their website

Posted on May 27, 2007

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