When Someone Says They're Thinking About Buying A D600...

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BackdoorArts

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...can we just please just assume that they, by now, fully understand the nightmare that is/was the shutter issue?! Every time someone brings it up it's the same stuff ad nauseum. I know some folks are bitter about it, but enough already, OK?! If someone is seriously considering picking one up now and they don't realize the potential of them having to send their camera back, more than once, then they deserve what they get.

So please, please just answer the question(s) asked and lets save on the thread drift?! There's lots of great information about an otherwise fine camera getting lost amidst the tumult of bitching and moaning. I don't want to underplay the seriousness of what many of you (my self included) went through, but please, enough. It's out there already - they'll find it.
 

mikew_RIP

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...can we just please just assume that they, by now, fully understand the nightmare that is/was the shutter issue?! Every time someone brings it up it's the same stuff ad nauseum. I know some folks are bitter about it, but enough already, OK?! If someone is seriously considering picking one up now and they don't realize the potential of them having to send their camera back, more than once, then they deserve what they get.

So please, please just answer the question(s) asked and lets save on the thread drift?! There's lots of great information about an otherwise fine camera getting lost amidst the tumult of bitching and moaning. I don't want to underplay the seriousness of what many of you (my self included) went through, but please, enough. It's out there already - they'll find it.

As you say its highly unlikely a forum member hasn't read the threads on this issue,for me it makes me pleased i never bought new but secondhand could make this an exceptionally good buy,just needs thinking about when one comes up and of course price will be a consideration.
 

Krs_2007

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I want to add this does not affect every d600. Mine is one of them, its a great camera. The only thing that makes me mad is the price drop after I bought it but that can happen with anything you buy.

I personally never shoot with the aperture stopped down that far so its a non issue. If you want to pixel peep then you will find dirty sensors on just about every camera.

It has been cleaned one time and I have almost 7k actuations on the shutter since Aug of 2013. I will eventually send it in but plan on waiting till it calms down a little bit.
 

ryanwphoto

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Still an awesome camera, I have heard about it many many times. The thing is Nikon isn't bad nor is the D600 bad. It was just a mistake that was made in production. I know a guy who has one and he hasn't had an issue with his.

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SkvLTD

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I jumped on the oil train to be able to afford FX, but after the official advisory was in place as the safety net. I'm sure $700 is nothing to lots of us here, but I'm with the other half who count their pennies before every new purchase and D600 magically becomes that real bargain.
 

Jonathan

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I want to add this does not affect every d600. Mine is one of them, its a great camera. The only thing that makes me mad is the price drop after I bought it but that can happen with anything you buy.

I personally never shoot with the aperture stopped down that far so its a non issue. If you want to pixel peep then you will find dirty sensors on just about every camera.

It has been cleaned one time and I have almost 7k actuations on the shutter since Aug of 2013. I will eventually send it in but plan on waiting till it calms down a little bit.
Hang on, is this shutter thing now a non-issue?
 

Horoscope Fish

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...can we just please just assume that they, by now, fully understand the nightmare that is/was the shutter issue?! Every time someone brings it up it's the same stuff ad nauseum. I know some folks are bitter about it, but enough already, OK?! If someone is seriously considering picking one up now and they don't realize the potential of them having to send their camera back, more than once, then they deserve what they get.

So please, please just answer the question(s) asked and lets save on the thread drift?! There's lots of great information about an otherwise fine camera getting lost amidst the tumult of bitching and moaning. I don't want to underplay the seriousness of what many of you (my self included) went through, but please, enough. It's out there already - they'll find it.

*scratches head*

Soooo... You want to shutter the shutter-issue?

*BA-DUM, TISH*

Want everyone to just shut-ter up about it?

*BA-DUM, TISH*


The whole thing makes you shudder?

*BA-DUM, TISH*





Thanks, you've been a great audience!
Remember to tip your server!
 

Krs_2007

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Hang on, is this shutter thing now a non-issue?

Not sure if this an attempt at humor or not, but there are a lot of reports of users that bought D600's later in the year that had no issues at all. This was what prompted me to purchase the camera.

You always hear the bad, but very few post the good.
 

BackdoorArts

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It's truly not humor. What I'm attempting to do is to see if it's entirely possible to discuss the D600 without someone talking about the shutter issue. Whenever someone contemplates buying one and asks about other aspects of the camera, inevitably someone who has sent theirs back repeatedly and either ultimately returned it, exchanged it, or still uses it but bears the scars, pipes up with, "I don't know that I'd trust getting one after all the shutter stuff..."

I get that!! I lived through that!!!

My point is that one year later, there's enough press, enough opinion, enough rumor and speculation floating around that anyone who is considering purchasing a D600 has to have heard of it, and is more than likely asking their questions in light of that. What I'm asking is if it's humanly possible for people to let a topic regarding the D600 move forward without raising the shutter issue if it hasn't been asked about specifically?! The D600 is a damn fine camera and worth talking about, but it seems we can never get there because we have to hear the horror stories repeated ad nauseum. It's not like they're not here for people to read, and if they ask about the shutter it means they were likely just too lazy to read about it, and if they don't and don't know about it then, again, they've hardly done their research and deserve what they get.

I get an awful lot of compliments on my photos, and it humbles me to think that folks think a lot of my work. I attribute a lot of what I'm able to produce on the quality of the camera I use more than 75% of the time ... the D600. But I'll be damned if I can answer a question about the camera with any level of praise without it always going back to the shutter, dust and a whole lot of run-around. Hell, it's the internet, and it's where pissed people go to let off steam, and there's a lot of steam to be let off about how Nikon treated us all with this camera. I get that, and again, I'm one of the people that got jammed!! But behind their screw up they managed to give us a plagued, but damn fine camera, and it would be nice if those of us using it can talk about how it works when asked without having to weed through the same posts about the fixable part that doesn't, particularly when no one asked about it.

The camera is not a f-ing joke!! You might think so, and OK, you've said your piece. But there are a lot of us out there using it that beg to differ with you, and it would be nice to be able to talk about it without needless slams in every post (I direct your attention to jonathan's jab above). You want to slam Nikon and the way they did this, fine. But don't slam the camera. Once it works it's an amazing piece of equipment, and deserves to be talked about as such.
 
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Marcel

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I got this camera about 2 weeks before going to Vietnam for a 3 weeks tour. What I liked very much about it is that most of the controls (except the - and + in view mode) were the same as my D7000. Size wise, it's a wonder to be able to carry a full frame in a DX format and weight.

Here's a shot I took while vacationing in Vietnam with it and my (ebay 125.00$) 28-200 Tamron. I'm more than happy with this camera and it made me learn sensor cleaning. It's not rocket science and I think we all should know how to do this. I remember how I was appalled when I found dust on a blue sky with my D700 and 16-35 shot at f16...

M Giao.jpg
 

Marcel

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Stirring shit gives me pimples

Dyno Madrid.jpg

D600, 55 Ais 1.2 at 5.6, 1/640, iso 100
 

SkvLTD

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Not to mention how capable it is in lower-lighting. I had some issues seeing my subject last Friday at times, so I resorted to getting her rough outline in the frame and hoping the camera will take care of the rest- and it did! That was a huge weight off my shoulders after struggling with 5100 in similar situations in the past.

Realistically I hardly shoot above f/8 on average, which ends up being 85-90% of the time.
 
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