It's truly not humor. What I'm attempting to do is to see if it's entirely possible to discuss the D600 without someone talking about the shutter issue. Whenever someone contemplates buying one and asks about other aspects of the camera, inevitably someone who has sent theirs back repeatedly and either ultimately returned it, exchanged it, or still uses it but bears the scars, pipes up with, "I don't know that I'd trust getting one after all the shutter stuff..."
I get that!! I lived through that!!!
My point is that one year later, there's enough press, enough opinion, enough rumor and speculation floating around that anyone who is considering purchasing a D600 has to have heard of it, and is more than likely asking their questions in light of that. What I'm asking is if it's humanly possible for people to let a topic regarding the D600 move forward without raising the shutter issue if it hasn't been asked about specifically?! The D600 is a damn fine camera and worth talking about, but it seems we can never get there because we have to hear the horror stories repeated ad nauseum. It's not like they're not here for people to read, and if they ask about the shutter it means they were likely just too lazy to read about it, and if they don't and don't know about it then, again, they've hardly done their research and deserve what they get.
I get an awful lot of compliments on my photos, and it humbles me to think that folks think a lot of my work. I attribute a lot of what I'm able to produce on the quality of the camera I use more than 75% of the time ... the D600. But I'll be damned if I can answer a question about the camera with any level of praise without it always going back to the shutter, dust and a whole lot of run-around. Hell, it's the internet, and it's where pissed people go to let off steam, and there's a lot of steam to be let off about how Nikon treated us all with this camera. I get that, and again, I'm one of the people that got jammed!! But behind their screw up they managed to give us a plagued, but damn fine camera, and it would be nice if those of us using it can talk about how it works when asked without having to weed through the same posts about the fixable part that doesn't, particularly when no one asked about it.
The camera is not a f-ing joke!! You might think so, and OK, you've said your piece. But there are a lot of us out there using it that beg to differ with you, and it would be nice to be able to talk about it without needless slams in every post (I direct your attention to jonathan's jab above). You want to slam Nikon and the way they did this, fine. But don't slam the camera. Once it works it's an amazing piece of equipment, and deserves to be talked about as such.