![]() And using Live View is more difficult than on the Leica. I really wanted an optical viewfinder but this finder doesn't seem up to the task to nail focus. It makes me appreciate what a well thought out camera the Leica M240 is, now more than ever, as a great tool for what I do. It's kind of odd though that for the company to make cameras that allow use of their AI and AIS manual focusing lenses and newer Zeiss and Voigtlander lenses, manual focusing is a pain on this camera. If I did wild life photography or sports or weddings the Nikon would be great. Very nice camera, can do a lot of things, but I'm thinking more and more I may return it. ![]() Like I said, I'd love to find out.Įnded up buying a new D810 and have had it for about a week now. The controls are quite "mushy"-in particular the AF pad-and I suspect that the camera has a lot of mileage. I'm guessing it's the camera that took that photo, but apparently he bought a new battery in 2008(as per the sticker on the battery). I have a big stack of papers related to the Derby back to 1978(Affirmed) that I rescued out of a professor's office, and the half page photo of Monarchos crossing the finish line in 2001 was taken by this photographer. I have a D1H that I would love to know the count on-it came from the local daily newspaper(largest in the state) and was issued to one of the top PJs at the paper. Heck, on D1 series cameras there isn't a way to even find the shutter count. It's the only camera I've encountered that does it. My Kodak DCS 14/n does display it when you pull up the firmware. Obviously, the count influences people's decision to purchase a used camera - so why make it not convenient to find that information? Since the shutter count information is in the EXIF data I fail to understand why the count can't simply be displayed directly on the camera (like, for example, with the firmware version). The shop where I bought it priced very aggressively($1K) with the philosophy of "if the shutter dies, you can send it in for a new one and end up with a better camera than if you'd paid KEH $1300 for one." As it turned out, something ELSE broke shortly after I bought it-she shop took care of that, but they gave the option of a new shutter and I paid for that since the price at that time was a lot less expensive(I think it added $100 or so to the repair tab) than sending it in ONLY for that.īTW, I don't know if this is customary, but my D800 came back to me reset to 0(or actually a couple of actuations since they presumably shot it some before sending it back) with the new shutter in it. I bought my D800 locally knowing that it had 150K on it. At the same time, though, this is not exactly a high dollar camera. I called and received a replacement with over 100K actuations that worked perfectly, so I've just kept it. The manual advises that the message can appear occasionally and isn't a cause for concern, but if it happens regularly the camera should be "checked out." Mine did it pretty much every time I powered on the camera. With that said, I bought a D300 with a relatively low shutter count(maybe 25K) that displayed a repeated "err" message. Pictures are taken when the camera is connected directly to a computer (without a flash card inside).I've never been able to get a shutter count out of KEH, although admittedly I think I've only bought one DSLR from them(everything else has been lenses, film bodies, and accessories).The perceived shutter count is 2001, whereas the real shutter count is 9001. The next picture file written by a camera like Canon 5D Mark II will be IMG_2001.JPG. This results in a much lower perceived shutter count than the true shutter count.įor example, let's say the filename is edited from IMG_9000.JPG to IMG_2000.JPG. Some cameras, such as the Canon 5D Mark II, will use the card filename to construct the name for the next picture. The file name is edited to lower the numerical suffix. If a blank flash card is inserted afterwards, some cameras like the Canon 60D will continue previous filename numbering for example, will write file IMG_4102.JPG when shutter count is 3752.The shutter count in this case will be only 3751. If a new flash card is inserted with a file IMG_4100.JPG, then the next picture taken with the camera will be written under IMG_4101.JPG. The numbering then continues with this higher suffix.įor example, if the last file written by the camera was IMG_3750.JPG, this indicates that the shutter count is 3750. A new flash card is inserted containing a picture file with higher numerical suffix.Here are examples when the filename does not indicate the true number of pictures taken with the camera. Using numeric suffix of filenames written by the camera on a flash card is not equivalent to camera's shutter count (the suffix resets to 0 after 9999).
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