Today when I was out shooting the fire damage (using the 10-20 mm Sigma) the camera stopped firing. When I pressed the shutter button, the indicator light for focus went on but the shutter didn't go off. It was stuck like that when I brought the camera home. The 55-200 mm lens also would not work in autofocus but would work in manual focus. When I reset the camera using the reset on the menu, everything seemed to work again. I got really paniky and called the camera store and NIKON support (got no call back). Does anybody have an idea what I did that caused this?

I read something in my magic lantern guide for the D-40 about this. And if I remember correctly resetting was the fix. There is also a reset button in the left side usb cover between the usb port and the video out port to do a hard reset if the cameras electronics go goofy. Seems that static electricity builds up and causes havoc.

Thanks very much JFS. I just printed ths little note.

Glad to be of help.

Jim