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D5500 behaving strangely - going deliberately out of focus


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dswan

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This generally happens near water, on a D5500, the autofocus goes completely, utterly out of focus.  It happens repeatedly until I completely shut off the camera and restart.  After that, if I shoot very quickly at something else randomly (my foot, up in the air, etc) it's OK and will do a normal beach picture.  Manual focus doesn't help.  It's OK in other situations and, most of the time, it's OK near water.  What gives?



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You don't indicate which lens is having the focusing issue.  Have you tried another lens?  Are you suggesting the lens continues to focus incorrectly even when you have set it to allow you to manually focus?  More specific information would obviously be help.

 

Is it possible you got some sand on or near the lens or body?  That could definitely cause issues.  The only other thing I can think of is perhaps you need to clean your contacts on both the lens and body...



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Yeah, I've tried all of those, including a sensor clean.  It's a stock kit lens, 18 - 55 zoom and it works fine everywhere except near water.  The other night, I was shooting at a big Baltimore night event on the waterfront with all sorts of lights and festivity and shots with lights illuminating harbor water made it go bad again.  It's not just at night, daytime too.  It's predictable and a "reboot" fixes it for the moment, but it is aggravating.