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[khodgens]

NEWB here and I just purchased a D600, w/3600 clicks and a new Tamron 28-300mm f/3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD lens for the wife. A significant upgrade from her old Canon EOS Rebel. She's read everything in the owners manual and can't get the autofocus to work. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

TIA

[OTRTexan]

Is that the only lens she is having trouble with? Try cleaning the contacts, or just removing and resetting the lens.

[TBonz]

Great advise above...I have never dealt with that particular lens, but also confirm that it is set to auto focus if there is a switch as I've seen that changed accidentally before.  You might want to try a reset of the camera body if you bought it used to be sure all settings are at default settings.  Many Nikon bodies including a D600 can be set to use "back button" focus which uses the AE-L/AF-L button for focus rather than the shutter button.  When I get a used body, I always do the reset and then step through all the settings to get them set as I like them...

 

Oh!  And, welcome to the forums!  Hope you and your wife join us regularly!

[Jerry_]

Good advice so far - provided the D600 offers the same switches than the D610, you will also have an A/M switch at the lower left side where the lens connects, to disable autofocussing.

If ANY of the switches (camera or lens) is set to M, focussing will be manual.

[TBonz]

Good call - forgot about that switch Jerry!

[Ron]

Indeed, good call. Just last month I picked up my D610, changed the lens and discovered that AF wasn't working. After a few minutes it dawned on me that I had left the camera set to manual focus. The lens I had on it previously was a macro and I always use manual focus with macros.

 

The suggestion to do a reset is also, I believe, a good idea. Who knows what other settings were changed by the previous owner.

 

--Ron

[khodgens]

Thanks for the great info. Wife did some further reading in the manual and found a setting she had missed. All is well now. This is a great camera and she's very happy.

Thanks again!