Might be the popup flash mechanism. My D800e (along with all others I have seen) make a rattle when the flash is closed, as the flash retention arms are not under pressure. If you pop up the flash, the rattle goes away since the arms come under spring pressure. . Completely normal.

I just did this with my D90 which has a lot of use. Sounds like a huge piece is loose inside. But, the fact is many of these cameras and lenses have parts which move and if jolted will make sounds. If the camera works, I certainly would not send it to Nikon and spend a service charge..maybe $75-$100 to find out nothing is wrong. I think if one sends in a camera even under warranty and no problem exists, there will be a charge. But, I cannot say for certain what any one service center will do.

Shoot images, let us see what you do... post on PAD

Hi jtcaraig, welcome to the NR forum.

I have to ask you - have you noticed anything wrong with the function of the camera or any problems with the images that the camera takes, and do you have any previous experience with DSLR's of the D7000's complexity? I'm just trying to get a feel for the detail behind Newbie with that last question.

TaoTeJared said:
That is the mirror flapping.

Hi. I am a newbie. I am also having exactly the same problem. And I also did what he did actually. My question is: Is the 'mirror flapping' normal? Shall I bring my D7000 to service center?

It is a different type of product and work flow. There is not "camera raw" it just imports the images and you have all the mostly used photography tools. Many like me, barely use photoshop anymore as Lightroom does 90-100% of the work that needs to be done. (depending on the type of work it is of course.) The nice thing about LR is that you can choose to edit the photo in photoshop once you have it where you are ready for big heavy lifting.

You should try it to see what you think.

To your original post - you need to do all raw edits in NX2 if you work in that work flow.

Is there anything lightroom can do that you dont with camera raw + photoshop?

Just a Thought
Use Lightroom rather than Capture
As they are both Adobe products, they will integrate seamlessly
you can download a free trial for 30 days

But then I cant access the things like exposure controls in camera raw.

Save as a TIFF from NX2. Import that into PS.

<insert gory details here>

Capture and View NX2 save their changes nondestructively inside the NEF file as a series of steps (instructions). You will find a basic JPG with these steps applied but that's all. The adobe or apple raw converters don't understand the Nikon (NX2) data so you start over from the raw sensor data.

See this thread for discussion on why this may or may not be a good idea

http://nikonrumors.com/forum/topic.php?id=13062

What in particular do you want to do in photoshop?

Whats the proper way of transfer images from Capture to photoshop? It is crap. I do processing
in capture. Fix exposure and lens things. Save the image as a nef. Open in photoshop 13. It does not have the changes that I have made. Im not sure if it camera raw that does not work or the nikon software. Any ideas?

msmoto said:
And, another

If it is not reading in the computer also I would maybe think about the card being faulty. I would try another and if the new one works fine send the bad one back to Sandisk for a replacement.

This happened with an offbrand card I had...I couldn't even recover anything from it because nothing would even recognize the card. I lost the pics...I sent the card back and got a replacement, but I haven't use that brand card again. Bought a Sandisk card and haven't had a problem since.

The easy answer to both of these is to reformat the card and try again. The harder answer is if you want to try and recover any of the data from the card before reformatting. SanDisk used to bundle a product called Rescue Pro. You can still download a demo version for free to see if you can recover before buying a license.

Honestly, some sort of data recovery software should be in every photog's bag. It's just as important as a sensor cleaner :-)

The reason I'm digging this thread up is that we should probably put together a sticky trouble shooting thread and put all of the first answers in there:

Did you reset your camera? Did you pull the battery? Try a different lens? Is the cap off? Etc... Anyone else think this is a good idea?

And, another

diamondz said:
I just purchased a Nikon d5100 from Besy buy and along with it a new 16gb sandisck sdhc card. when I turned it on today..it said that there was no sd card installed..when in fact it was there... i had taken some photos and some videos..just trying to get the feel of the new camera..but i cant get any of them to pull up. I have been reading about this issue and my firmware is already up to date. Has anyone had this issue with up top date firmware? I will get e new card and try it..any reccomendations. The card is also not readable in my laptop either..it could be the card..but i could preview my pictures in the camera at one time..now it insists that there is no card installed.

stillriver said:
We bought a Nikon D5100 for a trip to Tanzania this past month. For the first several days, everything worked fine. My husband downloaded and cleared the 32G SD Card onto a MacAir computer each night. He was taking mostly still shots. On the day that we saw a leopard and a couple of Cheetahs, he switched to shoot video. The camera went blank after a minute and the hourglass displayed stating "can't read card data". He turned it off and on again but had the same issue. When we got back to the lodge, he inserted the data card into the computer and it didn't even register that the device was inserted! There was no icon on the desktop noting that the SD card was inserted. So--has anyone else had this problem? The camera is 3 weeks old. We are hoping against all odds that there may still be a way to capture the data on the card. BTW, we had another data data card we used for rest of trip with no problem but we never used video again. We're not sure if it was a card problem or switching to video or a lemon camera problem? Thanks for your help! Glad to have found this Forum.

Nope...SanDisk cards are the best. It is a firmware problem.

CrawfDJC said:
I have just bought a D5100 and a Sandisk Extreme 16GB SDHC card. I put the card in, formatted it and then over the next couple of days I got a "NO SD CARD INSERTED" error. It is an intermittent fault - I would pull it out, put it back in and it would work for a couple of shot but them the error would return. I returned the card and swapped it for a new Sandisk Extreme 16GB SDHC card but the same issue is still happening.

Is there something I am missing or is there an issue with the D5100 and these cards?

I am about to update the firmware - a new release on the 10/11 - to see if this helps but any help would be appreciated.

Thanks everyone. I updated the Firmware and the problem was resolved. Loving the camera, shame the original firmware could not handle a common SD card.

There have been tons of refurbished D5100s for sale. I wonder if everyone was having this problem and just returned them where the firmware could have fixed them. Nikon should have put out a message to all the stores telling them to try the firmware first (but I guess it would have to be somewhere other than a big box store to get that kind of service).

I had the same issue with the 16gb card. I did the firmware update and the problem was resolved.

Normally if you buy a camera after a firmware update has been released you should expect it to come with the latest version. Obviously if the one you bought had been on the shelf or left the factory before the update, it won't have the latest version. Have a check and let us know if that was the problem. From what others have said it seems likely. Let's hope so.

I purchased recently D5100 and it is not having any problem with 8GB card but when I inserted 16 GB card, it started giving problem for the first time after taking more than 200 shots, started showing " NO SD CARD INSERTED" message, I removed card and re insertged again, It just worked for a few minutes and later it started giving problem.

Now I have to try the suggestion given by tcole1983

Thanks @tcole1983. This firmware update seems to have resolved the problem.

I suggest updating the firmware with the new version. It seems to have been addressed in the newest version that was just released 11/10/11. Check it out...

http://support.nikonusa.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/17547

I am having the same problem with D5100 and a class 10 SDHC from SanDisk. I tried formatting using the PC and the camera. None work reliably. Most of the times, the camera does not recognize the card. Intermittently, it does and I can take stills. Video is choppy. This is quite frustrating.

Hello Nikon support team, Speak up or risk a loss of reputation.

Try to insert the SD card on a PC and see what format it has. (The filesystem should be FAT32), if not, format the card on the PC using a FAT32 filesystem format and try again.

I don't remember where I saw/read that Nikon cameras do not like NTFS formatted cards.

Disclaimer: I never tried to check if my cameras are capable to read NTFS formatted cards... I guess that the only problem that could arise is that the camera will not recognize the card, and you will be forced to re-format the card back to FAT32.

Hope it helps.