D600 sales banned in China

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DraganDL

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:pWere these specific items made in China?:p (or are they labeled as "made in Thailand"?). Anyway, like "Krs 2007" said: they are rejected there? No problem - send one of them to me (no guarantee needed, just make sure it is free of charge, except for the shipping - I'll cover it;)).
 
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Dave_W

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I wonder to what extent this fiasco will cost Nikon in sales going forward. All of this could easily have been avoided had they paid attention to those early buyers reports of excessive dust and oil spots rather than continuing full steam ahead producing and selling additional defective copies. Clearly Nikon has lost present and future customers over this debacle, how many is anyone's guess.
 
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DraganDL

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True! Nothing can boost sales as efficiently as a 100% customers' confidence in the product (and the producer). When you just KNOW you can grab ANY product made by such-and-such company from the shelf and go home with the conviction that you will use it tomorrow morning right out of the box, with no issues at all, only than you can call it a trusty brand...:concern:

But, I must say (and it does not comfort me) that Nikon is no exception in this regard(s) - I had similar problem(s) with my Olympus PEN, as soon as I purchased it, a couple of years ago. First, I realized there was a problem with the internal clock - it got reset every time I replaced the battery/left the camera without the battery (even only for a few seconds). To my great (and bitter) surprise, after thoroughly searching the Internet it turned out that: 1) not only this was a common issue for many PEN models (mine was/is E-PL3) but 2) the producer (Olympus) had not publicly admitted the existence of this ("generic") problem. Now, here comes the best part of the story: just when I got kinda used to this (I did not want to send it to the nearest authorized repair shop, since it is in another country:fatigue:) I had discovered that the distribution of the light across the frame is uneven every time I set the camera's noise reduction to "off" (switching it from "auto" or "on"). It resulted in photos' right-hand side being overexposed for about 2 stops (1 stop brighter than the center and 2 stops brighter than the left-hand side) if I was shooting with the noise reduction set to "off"! Was I MAD, was I furious?! Finally, I send it in, and the repair shop needed to replace the camera's "motherboard" or "mainboard", which practically meant the complete electronic part of the hardware (allegedly, in addition to the malfunctioning of the capacitor that keeps the timer "alive" until the Li-Polymer battery is replaced with the freshly charged one, there was some problem with the image processor whose "instructions" regulate the noise suppression, among the other things).
 
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jrleo33

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My D600 went to Nikon Service in L.A. for a shutter replacement, and I wonder with this news about China, if the Company might send back a D610. Resale of the D600 was a problem before the China shutdown, and this will cause more concern for potential used camera buyers all over the world.
 
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Dave_W

The Dude
sonicbuffalo said:
I wonder if any other models have similar issues?
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There were some reports of D7000's having oil issues but it was fairly localized and didn't span the entire production. It seems the lesson here is that buyers should wait at least 2 or 3 months before buying a newly minted camera. After you read the bug(s) report you can then make a much more informed decision.
 
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eurotrash

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Man, what a fallout of epic proportions. I honestly cannot agree with the way the company handled the situation, but I'm definitely sort of glad it did. At least in my mind, I would expect 130% excellence, no less, moving forward with whatever they come out with from now on. It's definitely going to force Nikon to triple check what they're putting out.

But see, HOW did this even end up getting the green light? No tester went, "hey, there seems to be some weird oil problems with the sample I was testing"? Did they simply not DO any testing? I just don't understand how it all went so haywire.
 
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DraganDL

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Yep! The quality control of the output has gone down the drain - either they simply had not checked enough items (sufficient quantity of them) or checked them when it was too late to recall the whole series (so they kinda concluded "let's deal with it later, when we get FORCED to deal with it"). Both scenarios are completely unacceptable from the customers' point of view...
 
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Dave_W

The Dude
I agree DraganDL, I also think they completely discounted all the reports of dust/oil as new users being overly sensitive. But once some of the bigger photo blogs chimed in, they really should have looking into it rather than just writing it off as normal accumulation. Especially the reports of users who never once changed their lenses but yet saw a steady build up of dust and oil. I suspect it also has a lot to do with the corporate culture at Nikon. To admit such a failing would require someone to fall on their sword. And apparently no one at Nikon was willing to do that...until now, that is. With a market as large as China's you KNOW it has finally got Nikon's full attention. Blame will soon be announced and that exec will be taking an early retirement.
 
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caveman

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It is/was true the 7000 also had the same problems,Nikon replaced mine the 2nd one worked as it should.
Like said wate untill the BUGS are worked out NEVER preorder...
I learned this the hard way,wated almost two years to buy my 800, also after the 7000 went back with a new 300s..
I realy hope nikon will make this right with all 600 owners.
Also hope that they will work to make sure this isn't a issue with new cams.
 
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eurotrash

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Well they said they were going to fix all older 600s (whatever 'fix' means in this context) I'm assuming they are losing money hand over fist because of it.

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