Comments on: Unofficial response from Nikon Norway

By: nuworld

nuworld — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 03:08:58 +0000

Image of both the original with the defect and the newly arrived with minial specs. Not perfect but tolerable and I’ll keep an eye and see if it worsens. I’ll update.

By: nuworld

nuworld — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 07:42:31 +0000

New lense in hand and appears to be much better although still has a few specs. No where near s/n 200112xx. The new lense s/n is 200225xx. Both lenses purchased through amazon. I will try and get an image up but having a heck of a time getting the angle to show the cleaner threads. I will keep watch and see if it worsens.

By: STJ

STJ — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:51:33 +0000

First great post here! Thanks…

By: pleio

pleio — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 06:58:11 +0000

that’s because everybody envies Canon, the leading company in the digital era. Only nikonians who know that nikon can’t create sensor on their own and continue to recycle sony’s old 12 mega pixel sensor complains about the new excellent 18 megapixel sensor. nikon after all is a company which wasn’t able to adjust itself to digital era.

By: nuworld

nuworld — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 05:25:58 +0000

I sure will jon. Here is my original s/n 200112xx. I also posted an image of the defect version at this flickr stream. The new lense arrives tomorrow so first thing I will do is take some snaps and send to the stream plus update here.

By: Ray

Ray — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 04:49:56 +0000

For This subject we need to go to youtube and ask people stop buying this lens until nikon does something about it.

By: A Naughty Mouse

A Naughty Mouse — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:33:43 +0000

Um… just because you close your eyes does NOT make you invisible!

By: NikoDoby

NikoDoby — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:28:44 +0000

56% ?! So why have ONLY two people ACTUALLY posted pictures of the problem here?

Post pictures of your lens []v[]ike and share the email of Nikon telling you they won’t do anything to fix it!

Do not reply to a forum to complain about a lens you don’t even have!

By: jon

jon — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:01:52 +0000

let us kno wth eoutcome ok..also the affected lens S/N and new S/N..and where did you get it if new lens is good. best of luck.

By: john

john — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:39:39 +0000

go to canon? kiss my aXX. I read a lot on problems of their new products in the DPR forum. I am specially refering to 7D and 5DMark III. if you serious about it, read it first.

By: john

john — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:27:30 +0000

they trying to ignore the problem because, it is almost imposible to clean up inside of the lens barrel in the service station in my opinion. so, guys, you and nikon stuck together inside of this lens barrel. good thing is though, you will probably experience some special effect from those silver particles like silver focus or silver ghost something. I am proud owner of 14-24, 24-70 and old 70-200 but not this one. I am going to re-purchasing the old 70-200 vr and wait another 2 years until nikon update this lens because nikon will never admit their fault. I still love nikon but not much as F4S time.

By: fxed

fxed — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:04:21 +0000

Nikon USA sent me a crap response, to the effect of, does not need to be sent in and will not affect image quality. Bull$hit. Nikon, me and you are going to do a two step in small claims, be sure of that.

By: Dweeb

Dweeb — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:31:48 +0000

That’s actually an old picture. I believe it was taken a few years ago at the announcement that the Nikon White Balance data issue doesn’t matter either.

It will be interesting to see what the replacement parts are. Is someone sitting somewhere sorting them into acceptable and reject piles like should have been done at the start of this mess? And I’d love to know if they’re continuing to use the junk parts on their assembly line to keep getting new len$e$ out the door. That’s one for Nikon to answer.

By: longtimenikonshooter

longtimenikonshooter — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:41:03 +0000

The latest rumor:

Just spoke in person with a couple of guys from Nikon Support.
It does look like the official line from Nikon is going to be that the defect does not affect the lens optical performance but they will replace the part if the customer so wishes. Customers who have bought the lens [and registered] the lens will be notified by Nikon.
The problem is that [at least in Europe] replacement parts are not in stock and will only be in stock in about 3 weeks time, add to that a repair time of 1.5-2 weeks and you are looking at 4.5-5 weeks from now to get the lens repaired.

source: http://nikongear.com/smf/index.php?PHPSESSID=52f55ff9d00fdccd705e96ed35865534&topic=22517.80

By: Jørgen

Jørgen — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:22:44 +0000

There are now an official statement from Nikon, and it says:
” There are absolutely nothing wrong with our lences. We have full control over the situation. This is only propaganda from Canon.”

I have actually got a picture of the Nikon representative.
http://theliberati.net/quaequamblog/wp-content/comical_ali.jpg

By: jon

jon — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:10:25 +0000

alright..let’s order the new 300mm lens..see if anything wrong with it…NOT!!!

By: Nikonfan

Nikonfan — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:19:02 +0000

huh? So that means 70-200mm VRII is not a 200mm at all !??!!?!?!?!? Sounds unbelievable to me ! Have anyone have the sample compare about this lens and the prime? Any tread like this ?

Thanks!!

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:24:33 +0000

Not quite. If dust particles can get sucked from the lens into the body so can these flaking bits. Lens particularly zoom are not completely air tight otherwise the moving parts simply won’t move in a vacuum. Air is needed to push in and out for zoom to work.

By: Daf

Daf — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:29:32 +0000

Oh that was a reply to the original post not mine. OOps

By: Philippe

Philippe — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:28:28 +0000