Sony a7 iii: With lens 70 to 28 My camera went nuts yesterday, it went black, was not focusing and i could inly see the very bright parts of the picture. Its on automatic and it...

cony25

With lens 70 to 28

My camera went nuts yesterday, it went black, was not focusing and i could inly see the very bright parts of the picture. Its on automatic and it usually results in well exposed pictures. I attached a picture of the setting when it malfunctioned. I am so disappointed i just bought it about 1.5 years ago.
Anyone with the same experience?

cony25

Also. Sometimes when i press the shutter, i hear a clicking sound inside the camera. 😞

cony25

This is one of the nonesense pictures that it took.
Please hel!

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

Perhaps an inquiry to Sony would pinpoint the problem better than the splattering of suggestions and opinions you'll get here. Just sayin'
--Bob

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cony25 wrote:

Also. Sometimes when i press the shutter, i hear a clicking sound inside the camera. 😞

Looks like you have a noncoupled lens but are trying to use the “Green Zone” fully auto everything mode. That seems to me like asking for trouble.

Bridges Loc: Memphis, Charleston SC, now Nazareth PA

cony25 wrote:

With lens 70 to 28

My camera went nuts yesterday, it went black, was not focusing and i could inly see the very bright parts of the picture. Its on automatic and it usually results in well exposed pictures. I attached a picture of the setting when it malfunctioned. I am so disappointed i just bought it about 1.5 years ago.
Anyone with the same experience?

Are you using Sony Batteries? While I have generally had excellent experiences using non OEM batteries I have also had a couple of bad experiences. One battery I had worked great until it was about 2/3rds expired, then it would make the camera do all sorts of crazy things. If you are using a 3rd party battery make sure it is 100% charged or better yet, put a Sony battery in.

Grahame Loc: Fiji

cony25 wrote:

This is one of the nonesense pictures that it took.
Please hel!

The aperture setting is not showing, which 'may' be simply caused by poor contacts between lens and camera. It could be something else but the first check is as follows,

Switch the camera 'Off'. Press the lens release button and rotate the lens back and forth a few times and try again.

cony25

I can always count with the experts on this forum! Thank you so much!

olemikey Loc: 6 mile creek, Spacecoast Florida

Bridges wrote:

Are you using Sony Batteries? While I have generally had excellent experiences using non OEM batteries I have also had a couple of bad experiences. One battery I had worked great until it was about 2/3rds expired, then it would make the camera do all sorts of crazy things. If you are using a 3rd party battery make sure it is 100% charged or better yet, put a Sony battery in.

I have also run into "low voltage anomalies" with camera acting wierd when power remaining drops below the 20% range - however in this case it looks like fully charged battery, so....... ALSO - check the pin connections from camera to lens, carefully clean both sets of contacts, remount lens with charged battery, perform a reset, see where that leaves you. If it doesn't help, call Sony...if it helps, you are on the right track.

ORpilot Loc: Prineville, Or

I'm a Sony a7iii owner. In your first photo it shows that you are in MF manual focus. Re-check the settings on you lens AF vs MF and also go to FN Function or Menu to change back to AF auto focus. Clean the contacts on the camera body and the lens. You can go into the menu and totally reset the camera. You can find Setting Reset on the tool box, page 7 . I hope this helps.

nealbralley Loc: Kansas

I don't pretend to be an A7iii expert, but when I compare what your screen showed and what my screen shows on the back, I noted that my battery indicator provides a "100%" percentage of fill next to the battery at the top right, your screen doesn't show a percentage of charge.

Otherwise, things appear about the same.

I don't know what the "approved" way to clean the contacts between the lens and camera may be, but in the army we used a pencil eraser to clean contacts between handset's and the radio's contact points. That always worked pretty well -- at least when the problem was with contacts.

So, I would ensure my battery was fully charged first, then I think I would call my local camera store, or Sony for some help.

R.G. Loc: Scotland

cony25 wrote:

I can always count with the experts on this forum! Thank you so much!

Does that mean you fixed it? If not, I notice that the ISO and shutter speed are both high (maxing out?) whereas the f-stop is registering as zero. The camera will be trying to get working values while being told that the f-stop is zero. That suggests that the camera is doing its part but the lens is failing in some way. It could be bad contacts or a fault in the lens, or possibly the lens isn't seated properly. (If you have fixed it, please ignore the above

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