The Issue: Pressing the shutter button halfway down works as intended, allowing me to lock focus. But pressing the button the rest of the way results in a temporary black screen in the EVF, then it just goes back to the regular EVF view. There is no shutter click, no photo taken. Bonus: Occasionally the EVF itself just goes black on its own, though this seems more intermittent.
Possible ways to find a solution:
- Take the camera to a local camera store
- Ask friends, family or other people I know
- Do a web search on the internet
Issues:
- May require an up-front fee, likely repair cost will be disproportionate to the cost/value of the camera (that is, way more than I’m willing to pay)
- I don’t know anyone with enough expertise to diagnose
And let’s expand on #3:
What it comes down to is this: Web search now sucks. And yes, it’s because of Google and its push for ads, AI and other nonsense that has trained site builders to optimize (SEO!) garbage that will get pushed to the top of searches, resulting in a web that is mostly junk pages full of keywords, listicles and not much useful information. And if you use another search engine like DuckDuckGo or Bing (which is one of the engines used in aggregate by DDG) you still suffer because all those crappy pages are still going to turn up, thanks to Google’s dominance in search.
Shorter version: I expect a lot of garbage results, with no genuinely useful tips or solutions. And this ignores another thing that Google isn’t even responsible for: The tendency to find many people asking the same question, but no one ever providing an answer.
Observe: Someone posting on a public forum: “Hey guys. I have Problem X. Anyone know how to fix it?” Three days pass. Same person: “FYI, got a fix, you can go ahead and close this thread!” In which the person never offers to others what the fix was.
I mean, I’ll break down and do a search eventually, but it ain’t going to be pretty. I will, of course, provide full details here.
