sonicbuffalo_RIP
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Good deal! Worth the wait!
Hard to tell. If it is "normal" dust, it should blow of with a rocket blower. If it doesn't blow off, I'd send it in. I'm not going to buy another wet cleaning set if the spots on mine remain or increase, it's going back.Getting these spots.. cropped to show a few..oil ?
Well, just for the record, I've been on the phone with Nikon. I've shot about 800 images with my original D600 since getting it back and this is what I'm seeing when I turn on Visualize Spots in Lightroom's spot removal tool...
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It's not horrible (yet), but it's certainly building up along the same edge as it did previously, and more than I'd expect in just over a week. Someone is supposed to get back to me within the hour to discuss body swaps.
The pattern looks familiar. Could they really be putting in another defective shutter mech?
Or just cleaning it to see if you would notice. It was a fast turn around.
Do you guys even notice any of these during your "work" shoots or just when you decide to f/16 it for the heck of checking? Anyone with like, D3/D4 wanna do a test snap just to see if there's any oil or gunk on those sensors?
Do you guys even notice any of these during your "work" shoots or just when you decide to f/16 it for the heck of checking? Anyone with like, D3/D4 wanna do a test snap just to see if there's any oil or gunk on those sensors?
Jake....might want to edit oldhippie to 'oldhippy'. I've made the same mistake!
@BackdoorHippie my cost issue was because of the way the camera store wrote the receipt. Initially I returned my first D600 for exchange (due to spots). Since it came with 'freebies' that weren't even listed when I ordered the camera, I only swapped out the body and held onto the 'freebies.' The store deducted the cost of the 'freebies' which were then itemized on the receipt, and the replacement camera was sent with this itemized receipt indicating the 'freebies' were not part of the shipment.On the second body I bought I saw them at f/8 and smaller, particularly when I'd ratchet up clarity or structure, something I do a lot on the series of street shots I'm currently doing. This check was purely to see what I had after a week of shooting with the camera back - something I was asked to do by the Nikon rep I spoke to when the camera made its 3rd trip back. This is something I'd normally just clean and move on. It looks far more like dirt than the shutter disintegrating, but if it gets me a body swap then so be it.
Truth is, I was reading this post on Phoblographer and decided to call to ask about the paperwork I needed to fill out to get the D610 body since my second body was on its way in at the moment. This resulted in a discussion about my previous body and shot were taken after that. I got a call back last night, 2 hours after I was told I'd get one and was in the middle of cooking dinner, basically telling me to send in 2 dust images, but I'm going to call them today and discuss it. The person I spoke with earlier started asking about whether my initial D600 was purchased with a lens, and I know that when hark had hers replaced they asked her to pay the difference between the current sell price on the D610 and the package price she purchased minus the retail value of the 24-85mm. I'm going to have a bit of an issue if they do the same with me after 3 trips, particularly given that this is not what they're doing with others, or the lawsuit settlement, but we'll see.
More to come...
@oldhippie, it's always hard to tell with cropped photos of the sensor.
@BackdoorHippie my cost issue was because of the way the camera store wrote the receipt. Initially I returned my first D600 for exchange (due to spots). Since it came with 'freebies' that weren't even listed when I ordered the camera, I only swapped out the body and held onto the 'freebies.' The store deducted the cost of the 'freebies' which were then itemized on the receipt, and the replacement camera was sent with this itemized receipt indicating the 'freebies' were not part of the shipment.
What service number have you folks used for 2nd and third service requests? Thanks!
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