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Nikon D2X problem (different from Bryan's)
Debra L Rothenberg, Photographer
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New York | NY | USA | Posted: 9:47 AM on 02.16.07 |
->> Last night I had a VERY strange problem that I have never experienced before. I was shooting on Manual, as I always do. I would take a photo at 160/second, and then the shutter speed woud automatically change to 400, then 40, then 250, etc.
I used the camera the night before and everything was fine (it didn't do this). I didn't switch anything and no one touched my camera.
Has anyone ever experienced this/know what causes this? This is just another in the list of ODD things that have been happeneing to make me think this D2X is about to go (the other is the many blanks I get when using flash, and everything has been changed fromt he flash to the cords to the pack). I am at about 93,000 shutter actuations so I "should" have more life in the camera, but who knows?
Debbie |
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Heston Quan, Photographer
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Placentia | CA | | Posted: 10:43 AM on 02.16.07 |
->> My F5 used to do that to me. I believe it's from dirt and oil from your finger that accumulates on the the command dial. I shot a lot of little league with it. When that little wheel goes in the camera, it probably deposits all the dust particles that fly around on a ball field in there and gets stuck in the electronics. Just a guess. I never got my F5 fixed, just wasn't economically feasable, but it served me well. Poor camera...
BTW I have 170K+ actuations on my D2X! |
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Kirt Winter, Photographer
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San Diego | CA | USA | Posted: 10:59 AM on 02.16.07 |
| ->> At the risk of showing my ignorance/inexperience, I had a similar situation with my D2x. It turned out that I had inadvertantly turned on bracketing. :-) |
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Debra L Rothenberg, Photographer
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New York | NY | USA | Posted: 11:08 AM on 02.16.07 |
->> Kirt,
don't you have to go into the menu for that? I haven't gone into the menu for anything other than to format.
Debbie |
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Jim Metzendorf, Photographer, Assistant
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Columbus | OH | United States | Posted: 11:20 AM on 02.16.07 |
->> Hi Debbie,
There is a button to enable bracketing in the top left control cluster of the body. Pressing this button and turning the main command dial will enable it. If bracketing has been enabled, the LCD on the top of the body will have the letters "BKT" just to the left of the battery indicator.
I hope this helps!
-Jim |
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Eric Canha, Photographer
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Brockton | MA | United States | Posted: 12:03 PM on 02.16.07 |
->> Debbie,
Both Kirk and Jim are correct. I had it happen at a swim tourney last night, and at other times when my fingers didn't know where they were. The way I was holding the camera while chimping caused the turbo cable from the sb800 to depress the bracket button. As I was dialing through the shots I also set the camera to bracket 7 frames. Caught it quick because of the big BRKT icon on the top display. Dose the shift in exposure follow a regular patttern? That would be THE tell. |
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Bob Ford, Photographer
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Lehighton | Pa | USA | Posted: 12:21 PM on 02.16.07 |
->> Debra, if you have the latest firmware installed in your camera you should be able to got to "recent settings" in the menu to see if your recognize the last thing changed. If it's something you're not familiar with that's probably the culprit.
Jeez, remember when your biggest fear was that the film was advancing, and all you had to do then was blow off a frame or two and make sure the rewind knob spun. |
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Louis Lopez, Photographer
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Fontana | CA | USA | Posted: 1:01 PM on 02.16.07 |
->> Yes check Auto bracketing, happened to me at a few football games with different model cameras over the years. amazing how a sequence of buttons can get pressed by coincedence on accident. Auto ISO is another gremlin that likes to pop up in the same way.
Has not happened in quite some time. |
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Debra L Rothenberg, Photographer
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New York | NY | USA | Posted: 9:47 AM on 02.17.07 |
->> THANKS, everyone. It seems the cord from the SB800 did somehow rest on the BKT button on the top of the camera. I would never have thought that could have happened, but it did.
As usual, my fellow SS came to the rescue.
THANKS SO MUCH!!
I am shooting for a homeless organization tomorrow pro bono, on my birthday, to give something back other than the 12 inches of my hair for Locksoflove.org, and I would have felt very stupid if I didn't know what was going on with my camera. |
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Walter Calahan, Photographer
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Westminster | MD | USA | Posted: 9:55 AM on 02.17.07 |
->> Happy Birthday to you, Debra.
And your hair looks fabulous!
Don't feel stupid, feel smarter that you learned something. We don't shoot with cameras anymore, we shoot with computers with too many buttons. |
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Debra L Rothenberg, Photographer
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New York | NY | USA | Posted: 10:01 AM on 02.17.07 |
->> Walter, one of my favorite men on esrth who I have yet to meet
I'll try not to ask you "how tall are you" when I FINALLY do meet you.
The hair doesn't look faboulous...yet. It's stringy and gross..been growing it only to cut it. My husband wants me to keep it long but it's going to go, and I think soon. Some little girls need it more than I do, and it keeps getting caught on my camera strap..and the subway door!
And how true..we DO shoot with computers, not cameras.
DLR |
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