D200 shutter sound

I just got my D200 days ago, and I have concern on the shutter sound it generate

when compared with the D70s which I used before. It's got that springy / light

weight / mechanical sound when the shutter closes. Anyone has similar experience?

The simpliest way to resolve this concern is to visit a camera store or find someone else with a D200 and try that out to determine whether your D200 is or isn't normal. It is best to compare 3, 4 different D200's.

Mark, the D200's shutter sounds nothing like my D70's. The D70 has a soft, "flip-flop" sound; the D200 sounds just like you describe.

Thanks Shun Cheung, it sounds like a good experiment.

 

Chris: I guess the D200 makes a crisp sound where as the D70 is a bit more solid. Anyway, you have a great collection of bird pics there. What lens you use mostly for them?

I second the idea of comparing yours with another body in a camera store. The first D200 I bought had a very strange double-peak sound and you could feel the body vibrate. The store exchanged it the next day for one that feels and sounds as solid as any recent Nikon I have owned recently (F5/F6/D2x).

Hi, yes I agree -- you should compatre to another demo D200 in a store. Just FYI the D200

shuttter is rated at a much higher duty cycle.

Mark, my point is that we can spend the next 30 posts talking about how the D200's shutter should sound like, but the fact of the matter is that none of us can hears your D200's shutter. Some will tell you that your description seems fine or not fine, but as long as you have not made a head-to-head comparison, you are going to have doubts.

 

You could send your D200 to a repair shop to have it checked out, but that seems to be way an overkill since you are not even sure that there is a problem to begin with.

This very same question was posted on the Nikonians web site by a D70 to D200 user...

 

http://www.nikonians.org/dcforum/DCForumID202/19030.html

 

All I have to offer is that I have a Nikkormat EL, a D100, and a D200, and they all make a different sound when the shutter is depressed. Then, there are the P&S's I toyed with before returning to an SLR...they all sound like they have some sort of "fake" shutter release noise!

 

Mark, if the camera is operating correctly and taking good pics, don't worry about it! My guess is that once you become accustomed to the D200, the D70's shutter release will sound weird to you. Go out and enjoy your new camera ;-)

I returned my D200 for service a couple of weeks ago, after discovering a dark area on the left side of my photographs. They replaced the shutter (!). The new shutter is a bit quieter and a little bit less "flappy" sounding, but it's not a gigantic difference. I would go to the store, as others have suggested, and compare yours to the ones they have in stock. If it's unusually loose sounding, I would return it for one of the others.

 

-Janet

I like the sound of my Nikon D200...sounds solid...like a Nikon. Like my old F4S, or F3...granted they are still both built better, and will be working long after the D200 ceases to funtion...but we won't be around that long.

 

It is a great camera so far...and I love that Nikon thought enough of the photographers like myself that have alot of old AI/AIS lenses to put the meter couple back on the lens mount of this camera so I can meter with these old lenses and shoot in aperture priority auto mode. I do alot of nature shots that can be gone in a blink so the aperture priority mode is a very handy option...

 

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Just as Shun said, it is hard to describe the sound of the shutter. Then we can be thankful that Phil Askley creates MP3-files with the cameras shutter sound when writing reviews over at DPReview (<a href="http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/nikond200/page5.asp">link to page five of the D200 review</a>). This is actually the first time I think I found a use for that "data" :-)

The d200 has a shutter as well as a mirror. The D70 only has a mirror.

The D70 also has a shutter. It's fairly obvious if you actually, you know, look at it.

Mark - if it takes great picture - who cares what the shutter sounds like.

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If the shutter sounds just like any other D200, that probably indicates that it is just fine. However, some usual sound may potentially indicate something wrong. Since the shutter has some delicate moving parts, any small problem can get worse over time. That is why you want to get that fixed soon, especially when the camera is still under warranty.

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I kind of doubt that Mark's D200 has any actual problem too, but this whole issue is a "peace of mind" thing. We cannot resolve it by talking about it in this forum.

Finally went out to test the D200 and a D2Xs at the shop today (the latter camera just-feel-great). Anyway, it kind of resolves my worries since the one at the shop sounds pretty much the same as my own one. To be honest there is a little bit of a difference but I think only a piano tuner can tell. I am only concerned that there is tiny bit of problem developing like Shun's saying earlier.