I bought a used Nikon D7000 body from an online source. It has a problem.
The AF does not work properly. When the shutter didn't work, the AF needed to be shut off on both the lens and camera body and the focus done manually. The shutter then worked as long as the image was in focus. When AF is turned off on the lens and the image is put out of focus, the shutter doesn't work. It resumes working when the lens is manually brought back into focus.
The Auto Focus and the whole camera does work when the AE-/AF-L autoexposure lock is used to prefocus before the shutter is pressed. The camera takes a while going back and forth until it finds a focus point. The shutter is inoperable otherwise.
Focus is fuzzy in point and shoot mode
I tried both Auto AF A, and AF S. I also tried AF-S with a single focus point with no improvement. I reset the body to factory defaults with no change in symptoms. I do not use live view.
This was tested with 3 different AF-S Nikkor lenses. These lenses auto focus properly on my other Nikons. They do not hunt for the focus point when used on my D70s.
D7000 Firmware info is; A 1.04 B1.05 L 1.002 Shutter count is 40480.
The camera was purchased from a source source that is thought of as being reputable and will not yet take it back. They believe that I do not know how to set the camera. They may be right.
I've been using my beloved D70s for a very long time. I wanted a body with a higher resolution than the D70s for a time lapse project.
The D7000 promised me a higher resolution body for about $200. I assumed the D7000 could be used as if it was just a D70s with higher resolution. I also assumed anything anyone needed to know about how to actually use the D7000 would be in the official Nikon D7000 manual.
Wrong on both counts!
The D7000 is now just a nice manual focus DSLR. Am I overlooking something? Is there a magic setting somewhere that will set everything right? If it cannot be returned, any ideas on a repair price range?
I prefer to keep the D7000 and make it work....within reason. I may be able to do this time lapse project in manual mode. But, still would like to have a fully functioning camera.
Interesting unrelated thing. The name of the previous owner was in the exif files.
The AF does not work properly. When the shutter didn't work, the AF needed to be shut off on both the lens and camera body and the focus done manually. The shutter then worked as long as the image was in focus. When AF is turned off on the lens and the image is put out of focus, the shutter doesn't work. It resumes working when the lens is manually brought back into focus.
The Auto Focus and the whole camera does work when the AE-/AF-L autoexposure lock is used to prefocus before the shutter is pressed. The camera takes a while going back and forth until it finds a focus point. The shutter is inoperable otherwise.
Focus is fuzzy in point and shoot mode
I tried both Auto AF A, and AF S. I also tried AF-S with a single focus point with no improvement. I reset the body to factory defaults with no change in symptoms. I do not use live view.
This was tested with 3 different AF-S Nikkor lenses. These lenses auto focus properly on my other Nikons. They do not hunt for the focus point when used on my D70s.
D7000 Firmware info is; A 1.04 B1.05 L 1.002 Shutter count is 40480.
The camera was purchased from a source source that is thought of as being reputable and will not yet take it back. They believe that I do not know how to set the camera. They may be right.
I've been using my beloved D70s for a very long time. I wanted a body with a higher resolution than the D70s for a time lapse project.
The D7000 promised me a higher resolution body for about $200. I assumed the D7000 could be used as if it was just a D70s with higher resolution. I also assumed anything anyone needed to know about how to actually use the D7000 would be in the official Nikon D7000 manual.
Wrong on both counts!
The D7000 is now just a nice manual focus DSLR. Am I overlooking something? Is there a magic setting somewhere that will set everything right? If it cannot be returned, any ideas on a repair price range?
I prefer to keep the D7000 and make it work....within reason. I may be able to do this time lapse project in manual mode. But, still would like to have a fully functioning camera.
Interesting unrelated thing. The name of the previous owner was in the exif files.