dcraton Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 I am here again with the same problem on my other Nikon D80 posted at http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00LI10. Same problem during a shoot yesterday, 7/7/07. Must be the 7's. My LCD died, the cam died just shooting a reception/party at a country club under normal environment and conditions. Fortunately again, I have two backups and my assistant saved my behind. For any of you ever wondering why we carry around multiple bodies and lenses, well there you are. But, I do this for a living. I spoke with Nikon extensively today and they are thinking it may be on of my EN-EL3e batteries causing this problem. For you tech heads smarter than me, what do you think? Here are the facts: I bought the USA cam bod from B&H 8 months ago; I baby my gear; I did do all resets; I did try all batteries, all to no avail. It is very odd to me that this same problem would occur on a different cam bod. I am sending the cam and all batteries back to Nikon for service. BTW, I know many have had problems with Nikon service. I have not, they have been very good to me, but I have sent very detailed info to them, this being only the third service issue in 35 years of shooting Nikon. I have called or emailed all of my other pro and enthusiast shooters who have D80's and all are satisfied. I love this cam and it gives me excellent results for the field that I work in: sports, portraits, corporate product shots, press kits, promo photos, and the arts. After extensive research, I have not found anyone else who has had this problem and neither did Nikon show this in their records for a D80, except for my previous cam I sent in. Have any of you experience this or similar problems with a D80? Any thoughts would be appreciated. What, go Canon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcraton Posted July 9, 2007 Author Share Posted July 9, 2007 Sorry, 25 years of shooting. I hit the wrong key. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
albertdarmali Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 You probably just had an extremely bad stretch of luck. 3rd time lucky I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diane_madura Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 David, I had something happen with my D80 that may or may not be related. I bought the D80 the first week it was available. I have three batteries. One day about a month ago, after charging one of the batteries, I put the battery in the camera, and all I got was the batter indicator blinking across the LCD again and again. But nothing on the camera worked. However my other batteries worked fine. I contacted Nikon about this, and they have asked me to send the battery to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack_l3 Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 Are those particular batteries made in China? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcraton Posted July 9, 2007 Author Share Posted July 9, 2007 These batteries were made in Japan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael_nelson6 Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 Haha... Nikon never heard of this? There are extensive threads (one has gone to its third generation now due to sheer volume of posts) about this problem on both D200 and D80 bodies which both use the same EN-EL3E battery pack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael_nelson6 Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 Oops I meant there are extensive threads on Nikonians.org about this in the D80 and D200 forums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShunCheung Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 I am not aware of any extensive threads on this particular (electronics?) D80 problem in this forum. I wonder why it is different in nikonians.org. The main D80 problem we discuss here is exposure, usually over exposure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcraton Posted July 9, 2007 Author Share Posted July 9, 2007 I did an extensive search at Nikonians and failed to find any threads related to LCD failure and complete camera failure on a D80 with and without battery cause or lack thereof. If there are, would you be so kind to provide a link link? I found related posts of people having problems with batteries, the normal EL strings, but nothing that indicated complete camera failure. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael_nelson6 Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 Miscellaneous problems related to the D80 battery pack: http://www.nikonians.org/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=read_count&om=2338&forum=DCForumID236&viewmode=threaded When you say LCD died, do you mean complete and utter failure and it won't come back with even another good battery? If so, I guess this is yet another problem with the D80. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShunCheung Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 Michael, thanks for providing the link, but that thread in Nikonians is about a "False Low Battery Indication" on the D80. It is a long thread and I only checked a few posts there. Apparently some people can fix that problem by cleaning the electronic contacts on the mount, which is a common fix to a lot of electronic contact problems anyway. David's problem is that the entire camera fails. So it is not clear to me that his problem is the same as "false low battery." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcraton Posted July 9, 2007 Author Share Posted July 9, 2007 Michael, yes, the entire LCD failed. Both the top LCD and the main rear LCD. None of the camera function buttons work. This malfunction on a different D80 than before. I have 4 batteries, none worked. My other D80 that is back from Nikon from the same malady is working fine. However, all 4 previous batteries and the current failed D80 are on their way to El Segundo. Thanks for the link, I had already saw that. I have found nowhere on the internet of any similar problem via photo.net, Nikonians, NPPA, Google, etc. I just hope that it is a faulty battery. The chances of getting two lemons with the exact same malfunction is highly improbable. Of course, it was 7-7-07. Better than 6-6-06. Just a joke. Thank you Shun, I did and keep my contacts clean both on the mount, batteries, and charger. I am AR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcraton Posted July 9, 2007 Author Share Posted July 9, 2007 PS: I went and bought another Nikon battery today and shot with my current working D80 and everything worked well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael_nelson6 Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 Well, I no longer really care about D80 problems. I sold mine last night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcraton Posted July 10, 2007 Author Share Posted July 10, 2007 Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge. . .Benjamin Franklin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martin wmk Posted July 28, 2007 Share Posted July 28, 2007 Hello David, Just out of interest, what was the outcome from Nikon on the first repair? And did you get any feedback already on the second repair? It is interesting to know if both failures are similar or have a similar root cause. Brgds Martin Wmk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShunCheung Posted July 28, 2007 Share Posted July 28, 2007 Martin, you might want to check out the follow ups in this thread: http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00LyVt Apparently, those D80 problems were unintentionally self inflicted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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