Hi guys, quick question. I've been a pro shooter for 20 years, just as background. I did my first corporate job with my d800 today. I shot with d3s and d700 prior and still. Did a series of lit portraits on location with camera settings on manual and found that my shutter speed would change on me for the slightest reason. After missing a few shots and paying closer attention, it appears to happen when I chimp (zoom in to the screen to make sure someones eyes are open or there are no shiny spots on the forehead etc.) apparently using the controls to zoom and scroll through the screen changes my shutter speed and I have to manual change it back every time before shooting again. This is repeatable and does not happen on any of my other cameras. Anyone else experienced this?
d800 shutter speed chaning in manual mode?
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Posted 10 months ago #
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Hey mate, I've also had this issue. I first noticed it when I was shooting some pano's the other week. With Panorama's you want the frames you stitch together all to have the same shutter and aperture so you shoot in Manual mode and fire off how ever many frames you need.
BUT I noticed the shutter was changing after each frame and I had manually had to set it back to the desired shutter. I was very confused as why should we have to manually dial in our settings on MANUAL mode ?! I've seen that you got involved with a thread on this on "The Photo Forum" but the guys trying to solve the issue didn't seem to take it seriously. Maybe it being in BKT mode is the problem though ? but I'm not sure... My thought was that there might be some setting with metering that is changing the shutter but I am not a pro such as yourself. It must be something we missed because a DSLR that is changing in Manual mode is a problem, a big one !
Posted 10 months ago # -
luke james href="http://nikonrumors.com/forum/topic.php?id=6800#post-102962">said:
Maybe it being in BKT mode is the problem though ?I think you may have hit the nail on the proverbial head
I have been shooting for 50+ years and still make this mistakePosted 10 months ago # -
Well, I'm not an expert or a pro, but I was the one that mentioned the BKT, simply because if I remember correctly the OP said it was changing 1 stop in either direction. I think he was shooting at 1/160th and it kept changing to 1/80 and 1/320th... It just seemed like having the BKT button on the top dial it might be easy to hit. I wonder if the OP ever figured it out?
Posted 10 months ago # -
The possibility that came in to my head, and I say just possibility, is that the act of chimping is the cause? We all know that the command dial can be set to do different things whilst in shooting mode (rear screen off) and while reviewing an image. Seems to me that what is needed (if it hasn't been done already) is to reproduce the phenomenon and systematically go through the various actions that took place before the change, and eliminate them one at a time. Alternatively in an ideal world you'd have access to another D800 without these problems and compare settings. Hey, now there's an idea........save your settings to the memory card, do a factory restore and see if the problem still occurs. If it doesn't, the fault lies somewhere in your saved settings.
Posted 10 months ago # -
Hello! I bought my camera in London, but actually I live in Brazil. I`m facing exactly the same problem... Today was my first test with the camera in a studio and after each shoot the shutter speed changed to 60 or 4000 instead of staying on 125.
I`m 100% sure that everything was on manual mode, plus, I was photographing with other 2 pro photographers...Posted 9 months ago # -
I had this issue as well this past weekend. I had it in manual mode, verified bkt was turned off and my shutter speed would be set at 1/250 and it would adjust any where from 1/60 to 1/1000. Once I noticed the problem I would watch inside the view window after each click and it would adjust on it's own. Even when I hadn't viewed in on the lcd screen and removed the grip (so not as to have those buttons or dials as a variable). I was hoping someone had heard what else might have caused the issue... I will keep watching posts
Posted 9 months ago # -
Has anybody spoken to Nikon? Sounds like a firmware update will fix it.
Posted 9 months ago # -
does sound like a firmware update may be needed, i would speak to nikon Tech support, id chaeck my camera but mine is in nikon HQ having the focus fixed and while its there ive asked they clean up the oil splatters that have popped back up after i last cleaned it lol oh the joys hahaha
Posted 9 months ago # -
I had the same problem...went into my bracketing/flash menu and made some adjustments and changed the Auto Bracketing Set to AE and made a few minor setting changes within the Bracketing/Flash (I don't remember what they were now...but could list my settings if you are interested)...anyways...it's no longer adjusting the shutter speed! Finally!!!!
Posted 9 months ago # -
I have been working with my D800E all evening in manual mode. I have been chimping for fine focus with a manual lens. All bracketing is off. I haven't had a problem. I do have Auto Bracketing set to AE.
Posted 9 months ago # -
No reply from the OP so maybe he found an error in his settings.
Surely a two button salute is the first thing you would try...
Posted 9 months ago #
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