Nikon d800 serial 300323xx just received today from amazon got left auto focus issue ! This is my 2nd d800. I do not believe nikon fixed this problem !
Nikon D4/D800 issues
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orangebox said:
congrats enjoy it im sure you will love it! :)Thanks... waiting for the battery to charge so I can go out to try some shots ... no XQD card but I bought one while waiting for the camera and a extra battery .. It came with this little plastic thing I trying to figure what's it for
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james.mannequindisplay said:
Thanks... waiting for the battery to charge so I can go out to try some shots ... no XQD card but I bought one while waiting for the camera and a extra battery .. It came with this little plastic thing I trying to figure what's it forI believe it's for holding the USB in place in tethering mode...
Posted 10 months ago # -
sorry to hear, i would say from my own experience if you havent all ready use the fine tune to try get it into focus took me a couple hours playing to get dialed in with my lenses
Posted 10 months ago # -
The first time I checked my D800E I thought I had the left focus problem, but it turned out to be AF fine tuning, incompatible focus targets and poor setup on my part.
Has anyone seen the focus problem on a D800E?
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james.mannequindisplay said:
Thanks... waiting for the battery to charge so I can go out to try some shots ... no XQD card but I bought one while waiting for the camera and a extra battery .. It came with this little plastic thing I trying to figure what's it forcool nothing like playing with new toys :) i wish they had put the XQD in the D800 file writes are painful if you fill the buffer!
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PavelVK said:
I believe it's for holding the USB in place in tethering mode...parvel is on the money its for holding USB cable when shooting tethered, which i use alot not used on the D800 yet, awaiting LR4 to update to allow thethered capture wish they would hurry up, its invaluable when shooting to confirm focus even more so when i shoot product.
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orangebox said:
parvel is on the money its for holding USB cable when shooting tethered, which i use alot not used on the D800 yet, awaiting LR4 to update to allow thethered capture wish they would hurry up, its invaluable when shooting to confirm focus even more so when i shoot product.I see.. I have to do some reading as you know us Men with Manuals as we want to play first then read later :)
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orangebox said:
cool nothing like playing with new toys :) i wish they had put the XQD in the D800 file writes are painful if you fill the buffer!It would of made sense to put the XQD card in the D800 for sure due to the file size but the D800 was not made for fast shutter speeds as your more likely will take studio or landscape shots with it as to shoot sports
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james.mannequindisplay said:
It would of made sense to put the XQD card in the D800 for sure due to the file size but the D800 was not made for fast shutter speeds as your more likely will take studio or landscape shots with it as to shoot sportsoh yes always play first read later lol :)
yeah this is true except when your taking pics of toddlers running around its more like sports photography than a portrait session :)
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My D4 stopped functioning yesterday. The viewer is dim and the camera wont focus or take a shot with all but 2 lenses; the 14-24mm and the 300mm 2.8. With every other lens the camera fails to function. I reset to defaults, same thing. Charged the battery, same thing. Updated to firmware, same thing.
The only thing I can think of is that the aperture ring is out of whack. I used the camera earlier in the day at an event with the 300mm +6 1.4 teleconverter, and maybe the weight of the two combined lenses pulled it out of tolerance. But this is a D4, it should take some heavy duty use.
Anyway, packing it up and shipping it off to Nikon. The camera is less than 2 months old.Posted 10 months ago # -
rplst8 said:
Thom Hogan has changed his review for the D800 to "not recommended".Would have been a bit more informative had you given a little background and detail as to why Thom was changing his recommendation. I'm not defending Nikon here. They indeed should address this problem and do it at no cost to the consumer but just stating Thom Hogan has changed ... without discussing the entire article seems to be stirring the pot a bit.
From TH's site...
"Thus, because of the apparent widespread nature of the problem (left focus issue) and Nikon's response to it, I'm going to have to change my review to Not Recommended, and it will stay that way until such time as it becomes clear to me that all new cameras coming into the US are free of the left AF sensor programming problem."
Just for the record, I guess I got lucky with my D800.
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It would appear, from a consumer viewpoint, some type of recall on the D800 focus problem should be undertaken, and that this should be at no cost to the consumer. However, the actual legalities regarding any recall program may be such that one has to "deliver" the camera to Nikon for the proper correction. And, that may be the way it is, period. Life is not fair, but then neither was it fair for those in the Tsunami or the Thailand floods....
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I on the other hand found that 1 line post very informative rather like a news headline. I could then go to the website in question and read the article in full rather than a subjective edited version clogging up this blog. Furthermore I'm delighted with Thom Hogans decision as it represents my experience with the D800 which by the way is a camera I would not recommend to anyone currently. Mine is with NPS UK and because of the Golf & the Olympics they refuse to give me a time frame for the fix to be implimented ( they also still deny any knowledge of a widespread focus issue !! ) If I failed to deliver on a €3,000 job for a client I would certainly not be quoting natural disasters and the unfairness of life as an excuse for shoddy work !!
have a good all :)
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mmstills said:
I on the other hand found that 1 line post very informative rather like a news headline. I could then go to the website in question and read the article in full rather than a subjective edited version clogging up this blog. Furthermore I'm delighted with Thom Hogans decision as it represents my experience with the D800 which by the way is a camera I would not recommend to anyone currently. Mine is with NPS UK and because of the Golf & the Olympics they refuse to give me a time frame for the fix to be implimented ( they also still deny any knowledge of a widespread focus issue !! ) If I failed to deliver on a €3,000 job for a client I would certainly not be quoting natural disasters and the unfairness of life as an excuse for shoddy work !!have a good day all :)
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Rx4Photo said:
Would have been a bit more informative had you given a little background and detail as to why Thom was changing his recommendation.Hey man, we can't post links, and I'm not going to copy text from his site and infringe on Thom's copyright. I'm just the messenger. Sheesh.
Posted 9 months ago # -
D4 Just a note...after a couple thousand 10FPS shots, more oil on the sensor. But, seems visible only in nice clear sky. Easily removed post processing in LR4.1, so no concern at present.
Posted 9 months ago # -
I have had my camera for about a month, D800, taken about 500 shots so far, and don't really know if I have a left focus issue or not. But I do have a question: would a potential work around for this problem be the advice Thom Hogan gives for "the pro approach" to auto focus? He suggests using the AF-On button to attain focus and then recompose. If you're locking focus with a single good sensor, in my case I'm using the center focus sensor, then recomposing, even if the focus point were on the left side of the frame, you'd still be good to go because you locked focus with the good center focus sensor. Am I right?
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I do not know if you are right, but with static subjects I like to use a single focus point, e.g.., center, and then recompose. I know what I have then. Old habits are hard to change. Once the D800s have all been recalibrated by the factory service centers, the issue becomes mute.
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msmoto said:
I do not know if you are right, but with static subjects I like to use a single focus point, e.g.., center, and then recompose. I know what I have then. Old habits are hard to change. Once the D800s have all been recalibrated by the factory service centers, the issue becomes moot.FTFY.
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jmc6155 said:
If you're locking focus with a single good sensor, in my case I'm using the center focus sensor, then recomposing, even if the focus point were on the left side of the frame, you'd still be good to go because you locked focus with the good center focus sensor. Am I right?Kinda, sorta.
Focus and recompose can cause softness because the distance to the target is different in the plane of focus. This probably only matters with wide apertures.
Posted 9 months ago # -
I was thinking that the d800 issues are actually a huge conspiricy by d800 owners not wanting others to share in the wonder (I first suspected KR). I personally would love if as Tom Hogan points out the potential 2nd hand value of the d800 plummets due to lack of recognition of a widespread problem by nikon, maybe I would have a different attitude if I knew my d800 had an issue, personally I would take a 2nd d800 with a left autofocus sensor issue at a big discount.
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