douglas_greenberg Posted May 1, 2006 Share Posted May 1, 2006 My three-year-old D100 body is still serving me well overall, but I noticed a weirdness today. I was trying to get optimal DOF in a photo, so I pressed the DOF button. The aperture closed, but it didn't open again when I released the button, and I then got a flashing "ERR" message both in the viewfinder an in the top LCD panel. The problem can be resolved by pressing the shutter button down, triggering what sounds like an exposure but is not. This is one of those annoying-but-not-fatal problems that I can live with, but it's puzzling to me. Has anyone else experienced this? Is it an easy repair? Or is this God's way of advising me to think harder about getting a new D200 to replace this aging DSLR? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCL Posted May 1, 2006 Share Posted May 1, 2006 Try umounting and remounting your lens, and cleaning all contacts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
douglas_greenberg Posted May 1, 2006 Author Share Posted May 1, 2006 Thanks for the suggestion, but that didn't work. I suspect that something is amiss, but as I said, operationally it's just an annoying glitch not worthy of a major repair bill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paddler_b Posted May 1, 2006 Share Posted May 1, 2006 Are you sure it is not your battery? Bad batteries act up sometimes, and DOF needs more juice than the shutter firing. One of my batteries on D1x does exactly that. koorus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warbler5 Posted May 2, 2006 Share Posted May 2, 2006 Doug, I have experienced the dreaded ERR message before with my D100, as well. Mine almost always appeared when I had just changed lenses... I think I have figured out the cause (more operator error than anything else, when I first switched from pre-AI lenses on a 1976 camera to AF), but I have never experienced it when pressing the DOF button...only the shutter release. Admittedly, I only use the DOF button when taking close-ups, and I never experienced it with my 105mm micro lens. Cheers, Dee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
douglas_greenberg Posted May 3, 2006 Author Share Posted May 3, 2006 With my D100 there's no problem with the battery, etc. I suspect there is just something wrong with whatever it is that triggers the DOF preview. It's one of those things where it feels a bit icky to know that there's this ongoing problem, but it's not an important enough flaw to make it worthwhile to invest in what surely will be an uncomfortably expensive repair. I really don't use the DOF preview all that often, and when I do it's not that much trouble to trip the shutter button to disengage it, instead of just releasing the DOF preview button. I'll probably wait until there is some other reason to send the camera in to Nikon for repair, and then make the transaction a "twofer." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShunCheung Posted May 3, 2006 Share Posted May 3, 2006 This sounds like the problem I have with my F100, which I bought in early 2000. Around 2002/2003, the depth of field preview button stopped working. If you press on that, you get Err on the top LCD display and you have to press on the shutter release button to get it out of that mode, while no frame is actually exposed. Excpet for no DOF preivew, my F100 continues to work fine otherwise. Since the F100 was my backup camera to the F5 and I knew that I would soon shoot mainly digital, I never bothered to get it fixed. Douglas, clearly, someone up there is giving you a message: time to get a D200. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
douglas_greenberg Posted May 3, 2006 Author Share Posted May 3, 2006 Actually, what I'm getting with my D100 is exactly the same phenomenon Shun is describing. *Exactly*. Did you ever figure out what might be required to get it fixed? Like you, I can't bring myself to think it's significant enough to spend much money on, and as we all know, there is virtually no such thing as a "cheap" DSLR repair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thierry nguyen cuu - nomad Posted June 28, 2006 Share Posted June 28, 2006 I have a D200 and i have the same err message problem and also need to release the shutter to get rid of it. The first time i got this err message was when i hooked a 70-200 2.8 VR lens for shot outdoor (not extreme but cold condition). I though it was a contact problem so i tried to unmount and re mount the lens: nothing better... i end up pulling out the battery and put it back in. Since i keep having the err message anytime with any lens and without lens on it: it happens after the first shoot when the camera is turned on. I did try to shoot with or without a lens, with or without the vertical grip (with 1 or 2 batteries) diffrent CF cards ... same thing. I ended up giving it back to Nikon for service. I'm still waiting for it to come back. Till there i'm still investigating of the origin of this message ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew_chan6 Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 <p>I had the same thing and left it for years. Finally got it fixed at a Nikon authorised service centre - had power base unit and motor replaced for AU$462. Lesson: get it done while under warranty!</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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