Lens: Nikon 70-300mm VR f/4.5-5.6G IF-ED[it has 2 years Nikon India warranty.(Still 1 year left ]
VR just goes wild after 180mm and up and makes a terrible grinding noise . I will hate to give it to service center during festive season :|
Nikon VR(VIBRATION REDUCTION) malfunction
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Posted 1 year ago #
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If it's not a problem with Your support (which I don't think it is), it only means You will have to use the remaining warranty.
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Wow, something not right there! Almost sounds as if something has worked loose and is moving around? As Adamz says, at least it will be sorted under warranty, although I know what you mean about being without your equipment at a busy time. I suppose you could always use it with the VR turned off until the festive season has passed? Good luck in getting it sorted, It's a nice lens.
Posted 1 year ago # -
Definitely something to get looked at. In warranty or out, I'd would send that in to get repaired. Did anything happen to your lens before this happened?
Posted 1 year ago # -
That looks and sounds awful.
Posted 1 year ago # -
did you drop it?
if you did, they will know and you will might have to foot some of the repair cost.
hopefully you did not.
Posted 1 year ago # -
^ Nope ,I did not drop the lens .This happened while I was shooting a concert.
@SquamishPhoto : yes ,it does .
I will try to shoot another concert without VR today .I hope I will be able to capture few images with it .
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same thing happen here. lens become crazy at 135mm and up. Scrubbing sound, jumping viewfinder. Happened while mounted to tripod. Less than 100 shots taken that night. Shooting a pagaent. Used mostly 1/250
Posted 1 year ago # -
I had the same thing on two brand new 16-85 lenses. The first one was replaced straight away, the second one was repaired by Nikon who replaced the whole VR assembly within the lens. No problem since… :)
Posted 1 year ago # -
Abhinav, did you get yours fixed?
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kevinworld said:
same thing happen here. lens become crazy at 135mm and up. Scrubbing sound, jumping viewfinder. Happened while mounted to tripod. Less than 100 shots taken that night. Shooting a pagaent. Used mostly 1/250I always understood , you need to turn VR off when shooting from a tripod, unles you've got a lens like the 300 2.8 VR or 200-400mm which has a "tripod Mode VR" ...
Anyways, Nikon says in the acompanieing manuals for both the 16-85 and 70-300 VR : "When the lens (or camera) is mounted on a tripod, set the vibration reduction ON/OFF switch to [OFF]." , ....
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