Hello, Hoping to become a Nikonite! I have had a lifelong love of photography starting with an old rangefinder 35mm camera my dad bought in Japan after WWII that I found thrown in a closet as a kid. I was an early adopter of digital cameras but have never had a DSLR camera body. Could not afford what I wanted, so waited... And recently decided to replace my Olympus Pen with a used D7000. Did a ton of research, looked at a lot of photos, read reviews. I read the manual twice before ordering the camera, watched a youtube video tutorials, researched glass the whole nine yards. Have even ordered a David Busch guide.
Anyway, thought I had won the lottery when I found a great condition, in the box body with only 7900 shutter activations on it which I verified as accurate. Spent a couple hours looking over the menus, changing settings. Want to start out in auto mode and will eventually use the priority modes, etc. I took shots in manual and auto settings and will confess am disappointed thus far, but with some tweaks those have improved as well. But every time the camera is in auto the flash pops up, and here is my concern. There is some sort of bright neon yellow substance or fluid--it almost seems like a viscous wD40, and it does not dry out--that keeps appearing at the seam where the flash attaches to the camera and forms a little pool at the edge around the built-in flash housing. At first I actually thought it was some sort of marker to use to attach accessories, but was wiping down the camera and it wiped off. However, it reappears instantly and it looks like it may have permanently stained the lens cover of the flash which is yellowish so am guessing this may not be new.
Having nothing to compare to and no single camera shop anywhere in under an hour plus drive, I am hoping someone on the forum can give me an idea what this might be. I just took some shots of white paper and am going to check for artifacts. The original user appears to have shot in RAW and had a number of customized short cuts on the camera, so maybe s/he just never noticed if they weren't using the flash? Maybe it was lubricant from using an accessory flash? Or is it a dreaded lubricant leak inside the camera body that is just finding its way out via this one seam, waiting to bedevil my work just as the return period expires? It was an Amazon marketplace purchase.
Near as I can tell the camera takes brilliant photos in manual but the autofocus pix are not focused at all. Recognizing that a lot of this is probably me, I have continued to play with it and tweak away. But now this drip, whatever it is, has me worried. I wonder if the fact there are only roughly 8000 clicks on it is a signal that something was wrong--with autofocus and/or the mystery leak.
Anyway, thought I had won the lottery when I found a great condition, in the box body with only 7900 shutter activations on it which I verified as accurate. Spent a couple hours looking over the menus, changing settings. Want to start out in auto mode and will eventually use the priority modes, etc. I took shots in manual and auto settings and will confess am disappointed thus far, but with some tweaks those have improved as well. But every time the camera is in auto the flash pops up, and here is my concern. There is some sort of bright neon yellow substance or fluid--it almost seems like a viscous wD40, and it does not dry out--that keeps appearing at the seam where the flash attaches to the camera and forms a little pool at the edge around the built-in flash housing. At first I actually thought it was some sort of marker to use to attach accessories, but was wiping down the camera and it wiped off. However, it reappears instantly and it looks like it may have permanently stained the lens cover of the flash which is yellowish so am guessing this may not be new.
Having nothing to compare to and no single camera shop anywhere in under an hour plus drive, I am hoping someone on the forum can give me an idea what this might be. I just took some shots of white paper and am going to check for artifacts. The original user appears to have shot in RAW and had a number of customized short cuts on the camera, so maybe s/he just never noticed if they weren't using the flash? Maybe it was lubricant from using an accessory flash? Or is it a dreaded lubricant leak inside the camera body that is just finding its way out via this one seam, waiting to bedevil my work just as the return period expires? It was an Amazon marketplace purchase.
Near as I can tell the camera takes brilliant photos in manual but the autofocus pix are not focused at all. Recognizing that a lot of this is probably me, I have continued to play with it and tweak away. But now this drip, whatever it is, has me worried. I wonder if the fact there are only roughly 8000 clicks on it is a signal that something was wrong--with autofocus and/or the mystery leak.