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I've still got a copy of this lens which I used to use a lot on my Olympus OM4Ti many years ago. Tried it on my D800 a while ago, still bitingly sharp but lens coatings don't look good on digital, nasty colours; far better getting a newer version of this lens which is actually designed for digital cameras.

Hi Shun, just checked and on my camera it says C 1.02 and L 2.09, so obviously not running the latest software version. I don't tend to have much luck with electronic devices, they often seem to behave in strange ways!

PS Just realised that the camera also switched itself over from Raw files to Jpeg and just the medium quality setting at that, giving me 8mb files. Luckily none of the images that I took this afternoon were of any great importance anyway!

Thanks Matthew! When I checked the camera again this morning after putting the battery back in. No surprise it was still stuck with the 1.3 crop mode but showing DX in the main menu. I tried i button which took me back to the same menu, except that this time the menu showed 1.3 selected rather than DX. So I was finally able to put it back to DX. A very strange software glitch or so it would seem!

I'll try leaving the battery out overnight and maybe another reset to see if that changes anything. It was working fine before then, it seems to be something that the camera has done itself, strange that it is still insisting that it is in DX mode, yet is displaying the 1.3 crop message and crop lines.

Just wondering if anyone has ever encountered this issue before. I noticed recently that my D7200 wasn't including everything that was in the viewfinder. I'd seen the 1.3 at the side and wondered what that was about, checking the menu the camera is definitely set at DX and not 1.3. Tried switching back and forwarded between the two settings, images are definitely being cropped to 1.3 every time. I saw a mention of a soft reset online, tried that, no difference whatsoever. I've never used the camera with the 1.3 crop mode before, checking back I can see that the camera changed from DX to 1.3 crop about a month ago. I seem to be "lucky" with these glitches as both my D7200 and D800 have to have their sensors cleaned in Live View as the menu mode for cleaning the sensor leaves the shutter stuck in front of the sensor these days!

I've got a 2015 Apple MacBook 15 inch Pro Retina laptop, bought it new just over 2.5 years ago grey market via eBay and it has worked flawlessly until a few days ago. Working late I connected my external hard disk to it for about the third time that night as I was transferring images from the laptop onto my older iMac, the screen instantly began flashing bright screen over the darker areas. Tried restarting it, nothing changed. Read various threads online and tried various resets/ hardware tests again no change whatsoever, everything seems to show as normal, one of the threads suggested updating Adobe Flash Player, checked that and it is fully up to date, set to update automatically, so obviously not connected to that. The flashing green screen doesn't go away at all, except when I tried a safe restart, the screen was absolutely normal then, so guessing not hardware related? Tried to do a screenshot to attach to this but no matter how many times I tried this, each and every screenshot came out entirely normal with no green visible at all, even though the screen that I could see was virtually all green. To demonstrate it I took a photograph with my iPhone which I've attached here. Just wondering if there is something else that I can do before taking it in for repair?

Well finally got some time to have another go at getting access to the sensor to clean it. Tried a firmware update, which made no difference whatsoever. As per heimbrandt above I then tried the last resort of using Live View and this time it worked, didn't need to set it to do a video recording just plain old Live View, which allowed me access to the sensor and thus to give it a proper clean. I had also called Lehmann's this morning too to enquire about sending it in to them for servicing and they hadn't heard of this kind of issue before either, which is pretty telling in itself that this is a very unusual fault. I might well send it into them at some future date for a proper check and service but will check the images out and see if they come out as clean as the sensor currently looks!

I'll work my way through all your suggestions this week when I get a chance and hopefully one of them will sort this out, if all else fails Lehmann's sound like a good option!

PS I did take the camera settings off of mirror lockup on the M A S P dial too but it still made no difference in getting the shutter to keep out of the way when trying to use the Lock mirror up for cleaning function.

Shun I've tried both methods and neither works on this camera, the mirror locks up but the shutter stays down blocking access to the sensor completely. As you say the D800 works in exactly the same way for cleaning the sensor via the Lock mirror up for cleaning function as does virtually every other Nikon DSLR that I can think of. I went to the menu first of all, had the cleaning swab and rocket blower waiting and ready only to see nothing at all but the shutter, half an hour of trying every possible combination of ways to get the mirror to lockup and I was still left looking at the shutter. It doesn't seem that anyone here has ever encountered this particular issue before, it isn't even as if the camera has had a lot of use it has a fairly low shutter count. The other strange thing is that the mirror won't stay locked up even set from the menu, it returns fairly soon, wonder if it could be some sort of shutter fault or software glitch?

The camera is set to clean the sensor at start up and switch off, can't see how it would need to be plugged into the mains to get the mirror to lock up and the shutter retracted as it should be to do a proper cleaning though. Haven't had a chance to try to update the firmware as yet but will try that sometime this week and see if that unscrambles this rather confused camera!

I don't tend to change firmware on any of my cameras but at this stage I'll give anything that I can do myself a chance and if that doesn't change anything I'll check out T mode too, thanks for the suggestions.

Looking for a bit of advice here, just getting around to trying to clean the sensor on my D7200. I know how things should and do work as I've cleaned my D800 sensor quite a few times but my D7200 seems to be faulty as it doesn't seem to work in anything like the way that it should! First thing is the battery is fully charged, pressing the option to Lock the mirror up for cleaning and a loud click is audible but when you look inside the camera and yes the mirror has locked up but the sensor is hidden away behind the shutter and completely unreachable! I looked at this for a short time and then the mirror returned by itself giving a short glimpse of the elusive sensor. Has anyone else ever encountered anything like this before? Tried re-charging the battery to make sure it was absolutely charged to the brim and it only took a few minutes to confirm that the battery was as fully charged as any battery could be but it still wouldn't work properly. Second battery same issue, click to lockup the mirror, up it goes but shutter is still in front of the sensor. Also tried with standard mirror lockup setting and exactly the same situation. I've also reset the camera to factory settings pressing the ISO and Exposure compensation button until the top screen went blank, no difference. I'm rather at a loss what to do here, no warranty left on the camera, it was bought grey market off of eBay and it did develop a different fault fairly soon after buying it in that the flash would only work in the auto mode and no other setting. Tried returning it at the time and it was allegedly returned to Hong Kong but came back months later with no increase whatsoever in the shutter count, so very unlikely that any servicing or checking was done on the camera. Seller not very helpful after that and didn't want to lose the camera for months again as I'd barely used it so didn't bother too much as I rarely use flash and tend to use the D800 more for any landscape type images and have been using the D7200 as a lighter weight walk around camera, for which purpose it has been very good until now that is. Beginning to think that this particular camera is a bit of a lemon! Might have to send it into Nikon UK for a once over but that is likely to be rather expensive and although there is a more local Nikon agent in Glasgow, my experience of them in the past was awful, so no way would I trust them with anything of mine again after they destroyed two lenses and washed their hands of the whole situation. Anybody know any other good UK based companies that work on Nikon cameras? The dust spots are only visible with HDR type images, but there do seem to be rather a lot of them! They don't really seem to be visible on single exposures. I would obviously like to clean the sensor sooner rather than later to eliminate this issue but can't work out how to do that seemingly simple task if the camera won't let me actually see the sensor for longer than a split second!

That isn't an uncommon issue but a lot easier to fix these days in post processing than back in the days when colour transparency film was often used. You would think that in theory if you know the correct exposure and are using manual settings that images taken with different lenses at these same exposure settings should be fairly similar in appearance if the light is fairly constant but back in my medium format days I had one lens in particular which always seemed to produce over exposed images compared to the other lenses that I used, taking images of the same scene in the same light. That lens was my 105mm lens on a Pentax 67II, both bought new, the 45mm, 55mm and 200mm lenses all produced images with similar appearance in terms of colour saturation and exposure but unless I remembered to underexpose with 105mm lens its images were always that bit too light for my taste.