Problem with D700

alan bates

Senior Member
My D700 has been well used. I do Realestate Photography so I'm taking a lot of photos. My D700, on a remote trigger, the shutter just kept opening and closing...... over and over would not stop. So I turned off the camera and tried to take a photo without the remote trigger and now it says folder contains no images. Well at the time I could let the camera sit for a while and then it would work for another 300 or so photos and start doing the same thing. So I sent it to have it rebuilt thinking the shutter was going bad. I sent it to Southern Photo in Miami and think they are a great company. They told me my camera would be like brand new. So I'm excited and ready to get it back to use again although I've got another D700 for a backup. So now my remote trigger is a cam ranger, love it for what I do, and I hooked everything back up and after 250ish it starts doing the same thing. I sent it back to Southern Photo only to have them tell me their best tech has looked it over and can't find anything wrong and thinks it's my cam ranger, although I've never had this issue with my other D700. So today is my first time using it after getting it back the second time and it does it again only this time after sitting for a while it will not take a photo. It sounds like it's taking a picture but says folder contains no images. Any one have an idea or something I could try to check it myself. HELP Please!!
 

alan bates

Senior Member
Update. So now after a few hours my camera is working again. I just set it up with the cam ranger and took 400 photos, time laps, with no problems. This is very frustrating. Still asking for help or ideas....
 

Ruidoso Bill

Senior Member
Update. So now after a few hours my camera is working again. I just set it up with the cam ranger and took 400 photos, time laps, with no problems. This is very frustrating. Still asking for help or ideas....
I don't use a camranger just a wireless shutter, my D700, D800 and two D810's do the same thing on occasion, just out of curiosity is in low light tough for auto focus that seems to lock mine up. RE photography and thousands of images weekly is tough on the equipment, (still love my work) maybe time to begin thinking mirrorless
My D700 has been well used. I do Realestate Photography so I'm taking a lot of photos. My D700, on a remote trigger, the shutter just kept opening and closing...... over and over would not stop. So I turned off the camera and tried to take a photo without the remote trigger and now it says folder contains no images. Well at the time I could let the camera sit for a while and then it would work for another 300 or so photos and start doing the same thing. So I sent it to have it rebuilt thinking the shutter was going bad. I sent it to Southern Photo in Miami and think they are a great company. They told me my camera would be like brand new. So I'm excited and ready to get it back to use again although I've got another D700 for a backup. So now my remote trigger is a cam ranger, love it for what I do, and I hooked everything back up and after 250ish it starts doing the same thing. I sent it back to Southern Photo only to have them tell me their best tech has looked it over and can't find anything wrong and thinks it's my cam ranger, although I've never had this issue with my other D700. So today is my first time using it after getting it back the second time and it does it again only this time after sitting for a while it will not take a photo. It sounds like it's taking a picture but says folder contains no images. Any one have an idea or something I could try to check it myself. HELP Please!!


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alan bates

Senior Member
Mine has no problem focusing in low light. I'll generally use the cam ranger to focus and it does a better job than the camera's autofocus, IMO. So your camera will basically lock up. Mine will continually open and close the shutter and it's not taking a picture, After sitting a while, hours, it will then act as if nothing happened and do great.
 

Ruidoso Bill

Senior Member
Mine has no problem focusing in low light. I'll generally use the cam ranger to focus and it does a better job than the camera's autofocus, IMO. So your camera will basically lock up. Mine will continually open and close the shutter and it's not taking a picture, After sitting a while, hours, it will then act as if nothing happened and do great.

Actually it will still take an image just the mirror acts strange, loss of live view and doesn't do image review, my wireless shutter, CLICK turns on a blue light and to clear it I need to shut down the camera, pull the battery, turn everthing back and I am good for another few hundred. I did notice that the last firmware update was to clear an issue with the nikon wireless "Fixed an issue that sometimes caused the camera to stop responding when attached to a WR‑R10 wireless remote controller" so maybe there is some type of issue with the wireless remote not just nikon. My issues seem to begin when it is a low light situation with either the 14-24 or the 24-70 and it searches a little on focus. Oh well probably not the same as yours. Just odd that this happens ona three different bodies.
 
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