I have no control over the camera and moving my view moves the same random object

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Hi! I’m a noob. I have no idea how to describe this problem. I’m on Windows 10 and Blender 4.2.1 LTS.

I was following the Blender Guru’s tutorial. During this process, I lost control of my camera and moving my camera moves another object.

Numpad 0 moves me to the camera, but I don’t see the camera frame that I used to see. Also, when I scroll up and down with my mouse, instead of zooming in and out from the center, I seem to be moving up and down, as if the “focus” of the camera is somewhere in infinity. Moving around in my camera feels dizzy, as if I am not looking at any particular “thing”.

Also, I have a plane in the environment that was the floor, but while trying to regain control of the camera, this plane was rotated and transformed. I don’t recall doing any transformation. I reverted the changed manually, and resumed trying to figure out how the camera works, but during this process the plane was transformed by itself again!

I don’t know how to describe this problem, so I don’t know how to google this problem, besides “blender camera doesn’t work” or “blender camera orientation not working”, which doesn’t get me anywhere. I know I can start from scratch, but I’d also like to understand what is happening to my camera, since I might run into this issue again in the future.

Thank you in advance for reading! I can’t attach my file since I’m new. Please let me know how I can troubleshoot this problem or help me describe what is going on.

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Seems like you turned an object into the active camera (ctrl+numpad0, or view menu > cameras > set active object as camera). Do it again with the camera selected, or pick the camera object in scene properties > scene panel > camera

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Thanks for the response! I’m trying these options.

ctrl+numpad0 doesn’t seem to do anything while I’m in “camera” view. If I am out of camera view, it does the same thing as numpad0.

I don’t see “menu” or “cameras” in my windows.

I attached an imgur screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/Jr6WDXM I think my scene panel is already in camera, right?

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Testing on a new file, it seems this definitely has something to do with active camera; I’ll do some troubleshooting here.

edit: After watching videos about blender camera views I’ve recovered my camera.

It turns out that the camera frame was way out of my visible view. I had to zoom out and my rectangle camera frame was at the bottom right. Then holding shift I dragged the frame to the center and zoomed back in, and I have my camera back.

Thanks @Hadriscus for helping me out!

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Alright, I understand what the issue was. If you ever find yourself in that situation again, hit home, that’ll center your view.

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