Why does my camera say cannot recognize lens?

"Jennifer Ruiz try to clean the contacts between the lens and the body carefully with a soft cloth. Make sure that the pins that make contact, are not bend. Sometimes it will reset if you remove the lens and then the battery. Leave the battery out for an hour or so. You could also check to see if you can reset your camera to factory defaults once the lens is removed. Of course, always make sure that you have a fully charged battery.

If you have another lens you could try to check that out. It could be (worst case scenario) a bad lens. It might help if you can let us know what lens you have (SELP1650?)

Consider attaching some images of the lens etc. With your question. That would allow us to see what you see. Use this guide for that"

"OK, I had this problem after dropping my 16/50 kit lens as well. If I looked carefully, I noticed that the inner mechanism (the bit that comes out when you power up the camera) was uneven, sticking out a tiny bit on one side. In this case, you have to take it to a certified repairman to fix it for you, or buy a new one. Do NOT do the following:

1) Take the lens off. You see those four silver screws? Leave them alone. Do not remove them, making sure to put them in a bowl or other container so you can keep track of them.

2) Removing the silver ring held on by those 4 screws is also a bad idea. It exposes the lens’s “guts”, plus 4 black screws. Don’t take those out either. You see the little ribbon cable attaching the silver ring to the circuit board? If that comes out it’s goodbye lens, so really oughtn’t you leave this to the professionals?

3) Once the black screws are out, you’re really hosed. The internals of the lens can be moved, and the central assembly can be gently unseated and guided back into place all the way around so it’s nice and level. Obviously, this is way in void of any warranty you ever had, but of course you won’t have done this, so it’s all quite moot.

4) If you were to screw everything back together and put it back onto the camera, you will no doubt discover it’s still totally broken, and will probably catch fire or something. And serves you right. I suppose there’s *just* a chance that it will work good as new, and only have taken you 15 minutes from beginning to end, but it’s much easier to pay someone more than the cost of the lens itself to do it for you. So I’d do that.

Anyway, that’s my terrible idea on how to (not) fix this error when the lens internals have been knocked off-kilter. If you ruin your camera and/or lens trying it, remember I told you multiple times not to do it so don’t come crying to me."

In the settings, edit to enable “release without lense”

I had this issue and these solutions didn’t work for me. I noticed that the lens was slightly extended (zoom), so I gently but forcefully pushed it back all the way in to the original position. Then it began working.

Take it off by pressing and holding the release button and rotating the lens clockwise. Then put it back on by aligning the two white dots and rotating counterclockwise. If that doesn't fix it, just comment down below and I will tell you another fix.

Replace the bayonet mount.