Q2 - Camera manual focusing while in AF

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Hey ya’ll, 
I’ve had my Q2 since new in 2019, and it has been pretty much flawless until recently.  As nice as the MF focusing experience is, I rarely use it, sticking to AF 99% of the time.  In the last couple weeks an issue has arisen.  With the manual focus switched locked to AF, I’m experiencing random bouts of the camera appearing to switch to MF, with the EVF image zooming in, focus peaking displaying.  It really sticks out when it happens, because I so rarely use MF and see the zoomed in image and focus peaking in normal usage.  It’s now happened 5 or so times over the last couple weeks now, this morning being the latest.  

Today, put the camera up to my face, centered the focus spot on my subject and half pressed the shutter, and the image zoomed in with peaking.  Each time this has happened, I’ve checked the MF switch in case I had inadvertently switched it to MF, and it has been locked in AF each time. This morning, I checked the switch, tried again to AF, and it didn’t change from MF.  I wiggled the manual focus ring which has just a fraction of movement, and it switched to AF, but then back to MF, and did a back and forth a couple times.  I pushed the little button and turned focus ring to put it into MF, and then back to locked in AF, and after a couple times doing that, it stayed in AF.   

Anyone, had this same experience?  I’m thinking that maybe an electrical connection is not making contact consistently, or maybe there’s some sort of dirt or grit in the mechanism that is not allowing it to make consistent contact.  I tried to make a claim through insurance to get it looked at/serviced, but I guess they’d rather I had dropped and broken it, so it could just be replaced.

I love my Q2, and it has always been reliable, so this has really been frustrating.  Thanks for any advice you may have!

 

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