I've been playing with the prime lenses. The shutter release not engaging IS because I was too close.
If I hold the button down and slowly back away, it will engage and snap the picture as soon as I'm at a correct distance.
I can also see the difference between the 35mm & the 50mm - it's so obvious to me now.
I'm still having a problem with blurring, though. I put the camera in 'auto' mode and no blurring, but I don't like the f-stop it chooses in auto mode. Should I try a faster shutter speed in aperature mode? Or do you think it's something else I need to adjust to stop the blurring?
I'm going to set it to manual mode and play around with it some more today.
Thanks for all the advice!
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