| Author |
Message |
    
Picturepoison
Tinkerer
Username: Picturepoison
Post Number: 1
Registered: 12-2011
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, December 09, 2011 - 12:19 pm: | 
|
My daughter was playing with our Nikon D40X. While tightly holding the auto focusing lense she depressed the focus button. We heard a grinding noise and the auto focus stopped working. Would her actions just break the lense or could the camera have been broken too? |
Sillyconguru
Tinkerer
Username: Sillyconguru
Post Number: 41
Registered: 12-2007
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, December 09, 2011 - 06:24 pm: |
|
This isn't really a forum for such questions to do with a modern camera.
However; it sounds like the focussing gears inside the lens are broken/stripped, this shouldn't have affected the camera though. |
Br1078lum
Tinkerer
Username: Br1078lum
Post Number: 183
Registered: 11-2010
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, December 09, 2011 - 07:58 pm: |
|
You won't know if it affected the camera until you try another lens. I would think the weakest part would be the lens, as it's mostly made of plastic, and it sounds like the camera focus drive motor had enough umph to grind up the lens focus ring.
PF |
Mr_tomcat123
Tinkerer
Username: Mr_tomcat123
Post Number: 5
Registered: 02-2011
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, December 09, 2011 - 10:31 pm: |
|
the D40x has no focusing motor in the camera so your camera body should be fine.
I'm not sure how well do you know your equipment... but I would say, first make sure that the lens' AF selection switch is at A but not M
Then you could try those "electronics way"... turn off camera, remove batteries, unmount and mount lens again... you get the idea
If none of those work, go to a camera / electronics shop and try on another AF-S lens
Worst case scenario is a new lens... used 18-55 are cheap (~$80-150 here in Vancouver, B.C.)
Hope that helps! |
