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My brand new D800 arrives tomorrow! How can I test for common issues?
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<blockquote data-quote="papa2jaja" data-source="post: 169498" data-attributes="member: 14651"><p>I'm not a pro so take the following with a grain of salt.</p><p></p><p>I know of three issues - the left AF sensor issue, the hanging hourglass, and dirt on the sensor. I have had neither of them, my camera was purchased in April 2013, in Europe.</p><p></p><p>The hanging hourglass I think was fixed with the firmware update published in April 2013, so you might want to check your firmware is up to date. The update is available on the Nikon support pages.</p><p></p><p>The dirt on the sensor I think was never a major issue, I have about 1000 exposures now and no dirt yet. On my D600 it started at around 367 exposures. I've never read from someone who actually had this problem.</p><p></p><p>For the left AF issue, there is a description here: <a href="http://blog.mingthein.com/2012/07/03/how-to-tell-if-your-d800-d800e-d4-has-the-left-focusing-problem/" target="_blank">How to tell if your D800/ D800E/ D4 has the ‘left focusing problem’</a> which describes how to determine whether you have it or not. I'm not sure whether this issue is also affected by the firmware update, or not, but the changelog does not mention it, only an improvement to the AF-C.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="papa2jaja, post: 169498, member: 14651"] I'm not a pro so take the following with a grain of salt. I know of three issues - the left AF sensor issue, the hanging hourglass, and dirt on the sensor. I have had neither of them, my camera was purchased in April 2013, in Europe. The hanging hourglass I think was fixed with the firmware update published in April 2013, so you might want to check your firmware is up to date. The update is available on the Nikon support pages. The dirt on the sensor I think was never a major issue, I have about 1000 exposures now and no dirt yet. On my D600 it started at around 367 exposures. I've never read from someone who actually had this problem. For the left AF issue, there is a description here: [url=http://blog.mingthein.com/2012/07/03/how-to-tell-if-your-d800-d800e-d4-has-the-left-focusing-problem/]How to tell if your D800/ D800E/ D4 has the ‘left focusing problem’[/url] which describes how to determine whether you have it or not. I'm not sure whether this issue is also affected by the firmware update, or not, but the changelog does not mention it, only an improvement to the AF-C. [/QUOTE]
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My brand new D800 arrives tomorrow! How can I test for common issues?
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