D3/300 2.8 not communicating - DPChallenge Forums

01/19/2013 09:29:21 PM · #1

I sent this message to MattO as he would be the first person I could think of who might know this. But in the interest of getting all the help I can I am putting it out there.

I picked u a used Nikon D3 body this past week from the sports editor at a major newspaper. I seem to be having a technical issue that NO ONE (even Nikon tech support) can seem to answer for me. If I put my 300 af-s on my Nikon D700 it works beautifully. If I put it on my D3 the camera/lens will not auto focus. If I put ANY other of my lenses on the D3 everything works fine. It is just the combo of the D3/300 that is giving me issues. I cleaned the contacts, reset all menu options, took it to the camera store and perplexed them. I have a 14 day return policy with the camera body but I am looking for input from you. Have you every heard of anything like this? I did forget to mention that it had recently been serviced by Nikon and one of the items they fixed was the auto focus. But again, it works with every lens but the 300.....

Tammy

01/19/2013 09:51:21 PM · #2

is there a lot of play at the mount?
do you have AF TC?
try if that would make 300's AFS work

01/19/2013 09:53:38 PM · #3

Originally posted by Basta:

is there a lot of play at the mount?
do you have AF TC?
try if that would make 300's AFS work

There is not a lot of play. The 300 works amazingly on my d700 and d300.

01/19/2013 09:55:11 PM · #4

how is battery on D3?

my 300 stops working if my power gets low

01/19/2013 10:00:57 PM · #5

Originally posted by Basta:

how is battery on D3?

my 300 stops working if my power gets low

Fully charged and tried two different batteries

01/19/2013 10:04:33 PM · #6

do you have tc? did you try if Af works with 300+ tc?

01/19/2013 10:11:31 PM · #7

Originally posted by Basta:

do you have tc? did you try if Af works with 300+ tc?

no tc

01/19/2013 10:14:31 PM · #8

sounds like a strange problem, I wish you a good luck figuring this out... please post update on this

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

01/20/2013 08:17:52 AM · #9

Bump for the am crowd.

Giles

Canon EOS-5D Mark III

01/20/2013 09:21:37 AM · #10

is the d300 crop and the d3 full frame? dont know nikon sorry

jaysonmc

Nikon D200

Nikon MF 105mm f/2.5 AIS

01/20/2013 12:16:06 PM · #11

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jaysonmc

Nikon D200

Nikon MF 105mm f/2.5 AIS

01/20/2013 01:42:19 PM · #12

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01/25/2013 05:45:16 PM · #13

So after trying my lens on 3 different D3 camera bodies...It is the lens. It works on other Nikon DSLR bodies (D60, D300, D600, D700) just not the D3. I took it back to Calumet in Cambridge and they are shipping it to Nikon to repair at THEIR expense. They were very very very good to me. Even stating there was no way I could have done anything, nor would the problem have been known about until I got the D3. They even offered a refund on the lens if that was my preference. They are even going to UPS it to me at the house after it comes back from repair. Excellent customer service.

Tammy

Canon RF 24-70mm f/2.8 L IS

01/25/2013 05:59:20 PM · #14

interesting..what afs version do you have ? first one ?

kirbic

Canon EOS R5

01/25/2013 06:06:35 PM · #15

Good to hear you got resolution on the issue, and even better to hear about the great service from Calumet. I've always gotten great service from Calumet's West Chigagoland location.