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Yes, the exact behavior the OP is describing is caused by a dead battery. It might be worth trying another fresh battery just to see.

Purchasing another D800 makes sense to me. The camera still does everything it did 10 years ago.

Hi everyone, This might be a longshot, but I wanted to know if anyone had some ideas about an odd error with a lens of mine. This is an older 105mm 2.8 micro lens, screw-driven AF, with a large toggle switch on the lens barrel for switching between AF and M focusing. It's really a great lens for my purposes. The issue is this: if the lens focuses to infinity (or almost infinity), the reported f/stop becomes f/32 (regardless of what I have it set to) and the AF stops completely. The only way to fix either issue is to set the lens to manual focusing and pull back to less than infinity. Then the lens jumps back to normal use. It's kind of annoying to work with because any time the lens searches too far towards infinity, the AF shuts down. Any thoughts to what is causing this? Thanks.

It was always my understanding that modern lenses avoid the hard stop at infinity as a way to compensate for changes in temperature/humidity. As the lens shrinks or expands at a miniscule level, the ability to focus past infinity allows for breathing room. With a hard stop, it might be possible to get in a situation where you couldn't focus all the way to infinity.

I've used a Nikon 18-200 DX lens since 2007...still use it very often for outdoor walks where I don't have a particular subject in mind, and for a lot of general work. This lens has been a real workhorse for me. I can't vouch for others, but my particular copy of this lens is quite sharp and the images are very acceptable. I actually use it a lot with FX cameras. Some FX cameras shadow the unused portion of the viewfinder, making DX lenses easy to use. Agreed!

I have a 105mm 2:8 Micro that looks very similar to the lenses in the OP's photo. I've used it for years with a D3X for food photography, and the lens performs wonderfully.

I use a USB card reader plugged into the computer, and take the cards out of my camera and into the card reader.

Hi all, I'm going to be migrating my Lightroom Classic catalog of 360,000+ photos to a fresh Windows installation. My question is—that's a lot of previews to re-build, can I migrate the previews.lrdata folders too? Or is that a recipe for corrupting something? Is it better to let the catalog re-build them all on the new drive from scratch? Thanks

Yes, it seems you must move your source sample slightly before syncing to all the other images. That worked.

Hello, Tonight in Lightroom Classic, I tried to copy the same spot removal brush stroke from one image, onto a series of nearly identical images (it's a stop-motion animation sequence). Oddly, I see that Lightroom Classic chooses a new sampling area for every photo! It doesn't just copy the exact same sampling location that I chose in the original image. This is annoying in my stop-motion, because you see the change image-to-image. It seems to re-sample whether you copy/paste the Spot Removal or use the "Previous" button. Does anyone know of a way to make it copy my sampling location?

Yes, I often have to periodically re-log in with the existing password. This was a "you have no choice" requirement to create a new one ("enter a new password, type it again to verify"), across all Adobe apps as well as the Adobe.com account inside a browser. I went ahead and updated it as I said and everything's good now. Just curious why it was required.

I chatted with an Adobe agent and he said it was for security reasons. I asked if this was a normal Adobe security update, and he said yes. He didn't really explain why, but as long as there's not a problem I guess it's OK. Anybody else have this happen?

I don't think so...it's doing it across multiple devices, and even when I sign in to a browser on the Adobe website. Seems legit. Perhaps it has to do with the recent CC update?

Hi all, My Creative Cloud desktop app and the programs (Photoshop, etc...) are requesting me to update my Adobe ID password this morning. Never had it ask me to do that before. Any ideas why it's suddenly asking for a password update? Thanks.

OK...figured it out. The "Show All Other Lightroom Presets" button opens the wrong folder on my machine; it needed to open the Appdata/Roaming/Adobe/Lightroom folder. Once I put my Script folder in there, it worked.