Cant adjust aperture in manual mode

Canon 80d and nothing i do will let me change aperture in manual mode. Its stuck at f/6.3 and wheb i try to adjust it an L pops up.

2005GLI wrote in post #19083749
Canon 80d and nothing i do will let me change aperture in manual mode. Its stuck at f/6.3 and wheb i try to adjust it an L pops up.

Is your lock switch on?

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Lol! It happens to all of us, me included.

2005GLI wrote in post #19083751
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♂️ I cant even right now. Yes, that's what it was. I feel so dumb.
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No need to feel dumb.

I have been very serious about photography for 13 years now. . I never even knew there was such a thing as a lock button until a year and a half ago. . I don't think it should exist, because it can be depressed inadvertently and many people don't even know it exists. . So we take our cameras to repairmen when nothing is even wrong. . D'oh


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Tom Reichner wrote in post #19083756
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No need to feel dumb.

I have been very serious about photography for 13 years now. . I never even knew there was such a thing as a lock button until a year and a half ago. . I don't think it should exist, because it can be depressed inadvertently and many people don't even know it exists. . So we take our cameras to repairmen when nothing is even wrong. . D'oh

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And conversely, I regret forgetting to use it sometimes because the settings get changed while I travel. Canon can't win

Same thing happened to me once. I too discovered what that lock thing does after that incident.

I spent ages trying to adjust the diopter because the viewfinder was out of focus.... then realised I had the wrong glasses on.

I am like the original poster- If the camera doesn't do something I think it should, I immediately assume the entire camera is damaged beyond repair, and I'll spend the rest of my life with a Pentax K1000.

The reason for quick answers to questions like this... is because we've done it!

greyswan wrote in post #19087540
The reason for quick answers to questions like this... is because we've done it!

There is no better way to learn than experience.
I always check to see if I have a card in the camera because once, I grabbed the camera, headed out, got to where I was going to shoot only to realize I had forgotten a card.
I never shoot with my 100-400 with a filter because once I did, and all the images came out very soft.
I never shoot with a lens that has not been MFAed because of all my lenses, I only have one that is close to zero.
I always run a new camera through some autofocus testing because I have had 2 bodies that had near perfect center focus points but some of the outer points that were noticeably off. There are so meany more things I have learned the hard way, it happened to me while shooting

Teton wrote in post #19085779
I am like the original poster- If the camera doesn't do something I think it should, I immediately assume the entire camera is damaged beyond repair, and I'll spend the rest of my life with a Pentax K1000.

The K1000 was my first "real camera". Loved it!