Canon 400d problem?

Hi guys,

Further experimentation with the camera has yielded interesting results. Now I'm starting to mess around with AV mode, I set the main dial to F/11 and attempted to take a picture with low lighting. Now my camera is completely frozen and I can't seem to do anything with it. Also, the power light has gone off, but I think that's to do with the camera's power saving feature. I know somtimes the camera can take a while to process shots, but surely not ten minutes?

Please help!

Jen

Charge the batery

At f/11, what was the shutter speed? Did you get any error codes? What was the battery level at?

bildeb0rg wrote in post #5053064
Charge the batery

I agree, sounds like the battery died on you. Time to charge it again.

Samanax

how old your camera is?
how many shot that already taken?
I guess this problem is kinda weird... AV mode is just a setting.... and I guess that won't cause any trouble to the hardware...

CMIIW

AV at f/11 will give you a long shutter speed in lowlight...maybe your battery died before the camera was done taking the pic?

Thanks for the advice guys, it was the battery after all. There was no indication that the battery was running low, I thought there might have been some sort of warning!

miss_fugg wrote in post #5094219
Thanks for the advice guys, it was the battery after all. There was no indication that the battery was running low, I thought there might have been some sort of warning!

Yep! You should always have a fully-charged spare battery on hand. The 400D seems to get really finicky when the battery is low -- it shows the kind of behavior you saw before giving a "Low Battery" message.

Hehehe... same problem here.

The XTi don't give you too much of a warning before dying from low battery.
Just recharge, and you're good to go again.

Been there done that (twice).
Battery.

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