Think my D610 may have a shutter issue

BackdoorArts

Senior Member
OK, so I don't do a lot of flash photography, but I needed to do some headshots for a friend as well as a project, so I was testing a light set-up using my D610 because it was handy. The D610 is supposed to be able to sync at 1/200s, but at 1/160 and even as slow as 1/100 I was getting what appeared to be a shutter leaf lagging in the bottom left corner of the shot:

D610-Shutter-Issue.jpg


(pixelation added to protect the innocent)

My plan is to contact Nikon, send them the photo and have them take a look at it, but I wanted to check in with folks who do a lot more flash work than I do and ask if there's any other reason I'd get this? I had 2 flashes triggered right and left, both fired. This seemed to happen about once every 15 or 20 shots. Flashes, two Yongnuo 468ii's, were set to manual at 1/8 power against umbrellas using Vello triggers. It's either a dragging shutter or a late fire, but either way I see it as a camera issue. Please tell me if I'm wrong - Nikon support is hard enough to deal with that I don't want to send them a camera for a repair that they then clean and charge me for because nothing was wrong.
 

Marcel

Happily retired
Staff member
Super Mod
It's just my guess, but maybe remote Yungos won't synch over 1/125th. I had a similar experience with other remote flash with my D700 where I had to stick to 1/125th to get proper synch. Nikon will probably jump at the occasion to blast third party flash...
 

BackdoorArts

Senior Member
Nah, they'll sync just fine. I'm thinking it's a trigger thing, something others elsewhere seem to be confirming. If it was the shutter it would be every time. I was also getting a couple cases where the trigger would only fire one side, so maybe that battery is going dead (one of those round, silvery types you never stock up on). I should have used the Yongnuo triggers as well, but since I was firing manually I didn't want to bother as they're a little more of a PITA to set up.

I'm going to go with this as something other than a camera issue since it was far from consistent.

BTW, I was firing at 1/200 with the Yongnous and my D750 and D500 last week doing product shots and had zero issues.
 
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