So, I took the camera to the beach today to take some pictures of Mobius running around.

After about fifty shots, interspersed with me picking up the giant stick, and throwing it, I noticed the camera (Canon Rebel XT) wasn’t autofocusing anymore. Turns out a couple grains of sand had gotten lodged under the button, and were causing it to constantly be fooled into thinking it was half-depressed – so it’d autofocus any time you switched modes, but not otherwise. Gah!

So, I stopped taking pics, played with the dog, and when I got home, used a can of compressed air to blow out the button, which seems to have fixed the problem. Frustrating that it’d be that delicate, to be honest. Still, works fine again, got some nice photos, and all is well.