[Shaun @ Tru6]

Started reading the manual and watching youtube videos and websites on using the camera and immediately came up to a roadblock. When I bought the camera, the seller showed me how to focus with the AE-L/AF-L button and then press the shutter button to take the pic. I thought that was both odd and cumbersome but what do I know. Anyway, like every other camera I've owned, pressing the shutter button halfway in is supposed to focus it. Mine does not. I have reset the camera, made sure that all appropriate buttons are in autofocus mode both on the camera and the lens but it won't focus pressing down on the shutter button.

And more fun. I have misled you all on the kinds of pictures I need to take. I need to take four kinds of pictures shown below. I am happy to get another lens which I absolutely have to do. But first have to figure out the camera and why it's not focusing with the shutter button.