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02/17/2005 07:14:48 PM · #1 |
I had a bit of a freakout today- I took a photo, then suddenly the viewfinder went dim and when I tried to focus it wouldn't lock. I turned it off and on, swapped lenses, locked up the mirror and put it back, nothin'. It seemed like something somewhere in there was stuck.
Even though I've never used the depth of field preview button when shooting, I remembered the manual said that when you use it the viewfinder would go dim- so I wondered if maybe I'd accidentally pressed it or something, or if at the very least pressing it again might unstick whatever was stuck. I pushed it a few times and the camera went back to normal. Whew!!
Just wanted to put this out there in case anyone else ever has this problem in the future.
Now for a question: think this was a fluke occurrence? Is there something I can do to make sure it doesn't happen again?
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02/18/2005 09:04:11 AM · #2 |
When I first got my D70, the shutter would lock up. After pressing the shutter button again it would come out of it. Lost my camera for about 3 weeks to Nikon to fix that. I did purchase it as an open box (the first person must have had the same problem-but didn't want to send it in) and was $300 off normal new price. So Igot a deal.
Pretty hard to "accidently" hit the DOF button. That takes some effort and you usually have to "push " on it to get to work. Hope it doesn't do it again.
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02/22/2005 11:56:32 PM · #3 |
Just thought I'd update this thread.... got back this afternoon from a weekend in Orlando. All day Sat, Sun and Mon the camera worked like a trooper. Monday night, same problem as last Thursday. And this time, no amount of clicking the DOF button helped. I would take a pic and the shutter would stay open too long- it eventually closed, but then I got an "err" message that wouldn't go away unless I turned off the camera. Fire the shutter again, same result. So tomorrow it's going to a repair shop. Luckily it's still under warranty, but I'm still awfully disappointed.
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02/23/2005 01:39:53 AM · #4 |
Originally posted by ahaze:
Just thought I'd update this thread.... got back this afternoon from a weekend in Orlando. All day Sat, Sun and Mon the camera worked like a trooper. Monday night, same problem as last Thursday. And this time, no amount of clicking the DOF button helped. I would take a pic and the shutter would stay open too long- it eventually closed, but then I got an "err" message that wouldn't go away unless I turned off the camera. Fire the shutter again, same result. So tomorrow it's going to a repair shop. Luckily it's still under warranty, but I'm still awfully disappointed. |
This has happened to me, but only once, I just turned it off and back on again, removed and replaced the lens and thought nothing more of it - not happened since (hopefully, I'll have no further repeats).
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02/23/2005 03:15:32 AM · #5 |
It was time to clean the sensor anyway, right. They fixed quite a few things when mine went in for this. (to Nikon "plant")
Message edited by author 2005-02-23 03:15:48.
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02/25/2005 12:31:47 PM · #6 |
Jeez. I got a call from the shop yesterday (I took it to the local authorized Nikon repair place here in GA) asking me to bring in the lenses I shoot with (I'd only taken in the body). I took in the 18-70 kit lens (under warranty) and my 70-210 D (not under warranty). The Japanese tech was a bit hard to follow, but it sounds like the connectors on the lenses are bent or "not right". $75 to fix the 70-210.
The weird thing is, the problem happened once, a week ago, and I was able to fix it with the DOF button. Then it happened on Monday and I wasn't able to fix it at all. I got "err" and overexposed shots every time. I'd been shooting with the same lens all day and at the end of the day the camera started erroring. I have a hard time believing the connector somehow got bent while it was on the camera all day....
They said I should be able to pick up the body and lenses Monday. I'm not liking how this is going.
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