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Yellow substance leaking from flash housing D7000
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<blockquote data-quote="Veritas" data-source="post: 630643" data-attributes="member: 43870"><p>Based upon where the capacitor is house I can't think that a leak would appear in this particular location, but it is possible. It is appearing in the area at the very top of the camera, just in front of the hot shoe--the rounded, slightly raised piece of plastic that the flash arm encircles when it is not deployed. I have really wiped the camera down but can also see residue of this around the rubber gasket on the eye piece if I pry up the edge. When I first used the camera and the flash was going off, it apparently warmed up a bit and some of this stuff liquefied I am thinking. I have referred to this slightly raised area as a seam, because the material did seem to be coming from that area. However, I would think that this is a molded piece/housing with no seams, but just cannot tell. However there are screws holding the hinges to the flash mechanism and the material reliably appears at a junction by the screw that I believe is on the same side as the capacitor housing. It is bright mustardy yellow and looked like a suspension of pigment/powder and mineral oil. I thought it was some kind of lubricant, like watch oil. But there is nothing to lubricate there unless a person wanted to "oil" the hinges of the flash and honestly, they would never use the amount of this stuff that has appeared unless it was by accident. It has the consistency and appearance of cadmium yellow oil paint that has slightly separated. That is as good a description as I can give. And, as I have used the camera, I am noticing some little vague blots of something in the view finder--could be on the mirror or the "whatchacallit" above it. They were not there initially. Don't know if they are related or not. They do not show up in images.</p><p></p><p>I am definitely in the "small prey and sports" category of photographer and also take portraits of people, pets, etc. I have an amateur naturalist's bent, but take as many photos indoors as out. I have good post production skills. I looked at Canon and have quite a few friends with those camera bodies but just did not click (ha) with them. This sounds weird, but they weren't as fun (to me). I had checked some Flickr groups and also looked at a lot of photo galleries for some of the older models of different manufacturers and liked what I was seeing in those photographs, especially the low light capabilities the photographers ascribed to the D7000. I did glance at the specs for the 7100 but for whatever reason the smaller pixel size bothered me. I am definitely not of the school that higher megapixel count is better. Phone cameras are the bane of my existence because I do drawings from reference photos and people send me these crappy shots taken from their multi mpx phone camera and think that is as good as it gets. I, too, felt that the D7000 at 16 megapixels offered a sweet spot between processing and resolution and I did feel I didn't need anything larger for now and wasn't convinced that. I viewed the D7000 as an inexpensive entry point that I could learn on and then later I would upgrade. In the 2 days I have had the camera my shooting ability has gone up exponentially and I do wish the darn thing didn't have this issue. The price point and functionality works for me. I am funding my kid's last year of grad school and discretionary funds are scarce. I felt the inexpensive camera body allowed me to invest in a nice prime lens and a couple of kit lenses, extra batteries, educational materials, etc. I am going to have a bunch of stuff to return.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, for now at least, it is the D7000 or D7100 if that will work for me. Otherwise I will just have to wait awhile until I can afford something else. Thank you for your help and thoughtful reply, and thanks to everyone who chipped in. I did not want something to be wrong with the camera because I have invested so much time in not only researching my options but also in hunting down what I hoped was a suitable piece of equipment. So the replies here have been very valuable to me. I feel something is not right about the camera...and the replies did prod me into action.</p><p></p><p>I do have a question for you if you don't mind. I have stumbled across a lot of comments about bad autofocus with the D7000. Any ideas as to whether these comments are valid or what they might be rooted in?</p><p></p><p>Many, many thanks all!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Veritas, post: 630643, member: 43870"] Based upon where the capacitor is house I can't think that a leak would appear in this particular location, but it is possible. It is appearing in the area at the very top of the camera, just in front of the hot shoe--the rounded, slightly raised piece of plastic that the flash arm encircles when it is not deployed. I have really wiped the camera down but can also see residue of this around the rubber gasket on the eye piece if I pry up the edge. When I first used the camera and the flash was going off, it apparently warmed up a bit and some of this stuff liquefied I am thinking. I have referred to this slightly raised area as a seam, because the material did seem to be coming from that area. However, I would think that this is a molded piece/housing with no seams, but just cannot tell. However there are screws holding the hinges to the flash mechanism and the material reliably appears at a junction by the screw that I believe is on the same side as the capacitor housing. It is bright mustardy yellow and looked like a suspension of pigment/powder and mineral oil. I thought it was some kind of lubricant, like watch oil. But there is nothing to lubricate there unless a person wanted to "oil" the hinges of the flash and honestly, they would never use the amount of this stuff that has appeared unless it was by accident. It has the consistency and appearance of cadmium yellow oil paint that has slightly separated. That is as good a description as I can give. And, as I have used the camera, I am noticing some little vague blots of something in the view finder--could be on the mirror or the "whatchacallit" above it. They were not there initially. Don't know if they are related or not. They do not show up in images. I am definitely in the "small prey and sports" category of photographer and also take portraits of people, pets, etc. I have an amateur naturalist's bent, but take as many photos indoors as out. I have good post production skills. I looked at Canon and have quite a few friends with those camera bodies but just did not click (ha) with them. This sounds weird, but they weren't as fun (to me). I had checked some Flickr groups and also looked at a lot of photo galleries for some of the older models of different manufacturers and liked what I was seeing in those photographs, especially the low light capabilities the photographers ascribed to the D7000. I did glance at the specs for the 7100 but for whatever reason the smaller pixel size bothered me. I am definitely not of the school that higher megapixel count is better. Phone cameras are the bane of my existence because I do drawings from reference photos and people send me these crappy shots taken from their multi mpx phone camera and think that is as good as it gets. I, too, felt that the D7000 at 16 megapixels offered a sweet spot between processing and resolution and I did feel I didn't need anything larger for now and wasn't convinced that. I viewed the D7000 as an inexpensive entry point that I could learn on and then later I would upgrade. In the 2 days I have had the camera my shooting ability has gone up exponentially and I do wish the darn thing didn't have this issue. The price point and functionality works for me. I am funding my kid's last year of grad school and discretionary funds are scarce. I felt the inexpensive camera body allowed me to invest in a nice prime lens and a couple of kit lenses, extra batteries, educational materials, etc. I am going to have a bunch of stuff to return. Anyway, for now at least, it is the D7000 or D7100 if that will work for me. Otherwise I will just have to wait awhile until I can afford something else. Thank you for your help and thoughtful reply, and thanks to everyone who chipped in. I did not want something to be wrong with the camera because I have invested so much time in not only researching my options but also in hunting down what I hoped was a suitable piece of equipment. So the replies here have been very valuable to me. I feel something is not right about the camera...and the replies did prod me into action. I do have a question for you if you don't mind. I have stumbled across a lot of comments about bad autofocus with the D7000. Any ideas as to whether these comments are valid or what they might be rooted in? Many, many thanks all! [/QUOTE]
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