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<blockquote data-quote="Dave_W" data-source="post: 101244" data-attributes="member: 9521">I just had an unfortunate thought. Just before my D800 had a catastrophic shutter failure, the lens suddenly stopped focusing. I was confused and turned the camera on and off several times and took the lens off and put it back on a few times. Then for some reason it started and took another approx 20 or so photos but the strange thing is that the sound of the shutter was noticeably different, almost a smoother sound and then only 1/2 of the photo was showing up, the other half was black and I was getting an error on the LCD. That day I was taking a ton of photos at an air show and looking over the photos from that day I could see what I believe is the shutter disintegrating. The images started the day off just fine but as wore on there was more and more &quot;dust&quot; appearing in the photos. By the end of the day there were over 100 little dust rings, most fairly small in appearance but their number grew dramatically up to the point of failure. I hope this isn't the case with your D800 and I don't mean to scare you with my tale of woe but check your last few photos for extra &quot;dust&quot;. Crank the contrast up 100% and if they're there, you'll be able to see them very easily.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dave_W, post: 101244, member: 9521"] I just had an unfortunate thought. Just before my D800 had a catastrophic shutter failure, the lens suddenly stopped focusing. I was confused and turned the camera on and off several times and took the lens off and put it back on a few times. Then for some reason it started and took another approx 20 or so photos but the strange thing is that the sound of the shutter was noticeably different, almost a smoother sound and then only 1/2 of the photo was showing up, the other half was black and I was getting an error on the LCD. That day I was taking a ton of photos at an air show and looking over the photos from that day I could see what I believe is the shutter disintegrating. The images started the day off just fine but as wore on there was more and more "dust" appearing in the photos. By the end of the day there were over 100 little dust rings, most fairly small in appearance but their number grew dramatically up to the point of failure. I hope this isn't the case with your D800 and I don't mean to scare you with my tale of woe but check your last few photos for extra "dust". Crank the contrast up 100% and if they're there, you'll be able to see them very easily. [/QUOTE]

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