leon_pugh
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Thank you for the replies. Perhaps I have some reading to do then....
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Hello all, I am considering going premium and maybe selling some of my photos from here. I have not yet seen any "How To" on the subject. Where can I find out more about online file sizes required , where to save the images, how to set up payments made to my bank account or paypal,..... Is there something posted here? Thanks
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Eagle Ripping into salmon. Deroche BC, Nicomen Slough. In the late fall into winter eagles feast on salmon. -
polar bear female-
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The mystery was fully solved this morning. I was fuzzy on what happened when I posted the last update. This morning, I woke remembering that I had whacked the camera while walking briskly through the hotel lobby, D5 and large lens (500mm f/4 I think) attached. As I was walking briskly, the camera/lens impacted something in the lobby , a low corner of a very solid table or some stone bench or such. (I recently found my eyeglass prescription had changed and I now have new lenses , a bit late it seems !!!) anyway... It was a hard impact and I feared for my lens. I took some images to verify the lens was OK. It was, the images were sharp and focus was good across the frame. So I guess I forgot about it. I was more scared for the lens than I was for the camera. However,.. that is precisely when my problem started. The battery started to drain, and Nikon tells me that the Bayonet was broken. : ( I am glad I figured it out. I was quite upset with nikon thinking it should have been repaired under warranty!
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Wow! I am amazed and I feel quite embarrassed at my poor memory. After speaking with Nikon Canada on the phone yesterday I began to wonder if I was ABSOLUTELY SURE that the camera had never suffered a serious impact in the past. I began to doubt my firm belief that it had not. In fact a nagging foggy memory of an incident in a hotel parking lot came up... so, it is quite likely this problem was caused by dropping the camera in the recent past. I would have sworn on a stack of bibles one day ago that the camera had been free of this sort of history! Case closed as a far as I am concerned.
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"To be fair, that might have been quite a bit of work (and the replacement grip cover?)" Actually the repair list says Rpl Grip which I image means replace grip. They also replaced the bayonette, which as far as I knew was not a problem at all. Absolutely no issues swapping lenses before sending it in. I have NO idea what this means and why it would require replacement. Or, if it is just the grip cover. They may have been going on assumption the drainage issue was impact caused or water ingress. As such, I can see why they swapped out the bayonette as it contains contacts (and maybe components?). Does the grip itself contain electronics that can only be replaced by swapping in a new grip?? I wouldn't think so.
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No Andrew, it is not specific to one battery. I tried both the battery that came with my D5, the D4 battery and even a spare. They all drain when in the D5. Here is what was supposed to happen.... The camera was sent in to fix the battery drain issue. While they had it they said that the window is cracked and they do not do partial repairs, to which I agreed... by all means, fix the window. Charge me for the window fix (piece of glass). When you are satisfied that the impact to the window did not cause the short circuit/battery drain, fix that under warranty if possible (Camera was working fine until 4 days into a trip this august, no water damage, no drops, no abuse. Window crack happened several months ago) so, I was pretty confident they would open it up. Determine there was no damage under the LCD. Not find any signs of water ingress. and fix the battery drain issue under warranty. They did not even test the repair to see if it fixed the problem before they sent the camera back to me!!! Their website (Nikon Canada) states prices for non-warranty work, and for battery draining problems they have a price of $700 or so. We also discussed this on the phone with them. So when they sent the quote ( I was told it is just a quote, it might be lower based on what they find) I agreed, expecting them to find a warranty issue and just charge me for the glass window. The logical way to address this issue , determine if it was a warranty issue or user caused damage, was not followed.
