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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.
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The D5 came back today. Conclusion seems to be the small crack on the window caused the short/battery drain issue. They changed the bayonette. ??? No idea why. They changed the grip.??? Are there electronics in the grip???? and did they change them??? They fixed and or replaced the LCD and window that sits on the top of the camera. There was a small cosmetic crack in it and I had it covered in packing tape (to immobilize it) for the last several months until I decided to send it in for a real issue. Camera was working perfectly since i got it until day 7 of a one week photo trip to photograph yellowstone then swing over to Idaho for the eclipse. It seems they decided the minor impact to the LCD window was cause for the battery draining, even though I told them it worked fine the several months it was taped up. I was told if the camera was not damaged (by my carelessness) then it would be covered under warranty. Well I got a bill to pay. $750 plus about $100 in taxes. So they did not cover it under warranty. $700 is their "non-warranty battery draining " repair fee. So here is the kicker.... the camera still drains the battery. Hell, I got the camera back from them with a dead battery. I put in a partially charged battery that I was using on my D4 at 2 pm with 4 bars. by 5 am it has dropped 2 bars, while turned off. I imagine another bar will go while I get some sleep. I guess this goes towards showing that the cracked window and whatever was under it was not the cause for the draining battery. I still think it is a warranty issue. Perfectly good camera starts draining the battery part way into a photo shoot, in dry weather, no drops or shocks.... I have a polar bear shoot trip on oct 25. I wanted to take the camera. If I send it back I will never get it back in time. IS ANYBODY ELSE HAVING THE SAME ISSUE ? D5, slowly drains the battery overnight?????
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I contacted Nikon by email (Nikon canada ? ) they told me that I had to fill out a form to get on the NPS program. The form wants a letter on company letterhead and asks for info on recent assignments .... I guess having a D5, D4, D810, and close to $20,000 in lenses does not get you in automatically as a serious amatuer. That's more gear than many pro's own!!!
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.. Yes. And I called in about a week ago to verify, it is 2 years! I should be covered.
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I hope there is similar experience out there. On my recent trip to photograph the eclipse in Iowa, my Nikon D5 started to drain the battery overnight while it was turned off. I have never experienced this problem with any of my nikon cameras in the past. Lucky I had my D4 with me as well and was able to use the spare battery. It has consistently drained both batteries overnight while turned off since I have first noticed it. The camera was not dropped or exposed to water. It only happens with the D5. The same batteries when used in D4 keep their charge as expected. Nothing is plugged into the D5 when I turn it off. I did keep a lens attached overnight when I noticed this. (for the trip it was a 500mm f/4 or a 300mm f/2.8.) I am taking the lens off right now and I am going to wait to see if the remaining charge disappears over the next couple of hours. In the mean time... On the nikon "schedule a repair" website/form there is a box to check for battery draining as a symptom. I checked the box. completed the form and got an "estimate" of $500 (Canadian dollars?) The camera was purchased june 2016. The camera was purchased new with a full year warranty. I will try to phone service/support to see if they will accept it as a warranty issue seeing it is so close to one year. Has anyone had a similar problem and if so... what was the problem? Leon
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<p>Thank you.<br> I suspected that both processes would only affect the jpeg but was not sure.</p>
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<p>Page 292 of the D5 manual explains long exposure noise reduction and High ISO noise reduction.<br> <br />I am guessing that this applies to the in camera JPEG file and does NOT affect the RAW file.<br> Am I correct in thinking that these noise reductions have no effect on the RAW file and I have nothing to gain if I shoot in RAW?</p> <p> </p>
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<p>I found the problem.<br> Menu a12, custom setting menu, autofocus restriction.<br> These things should be easy to find in the manual!!!</p> <p> </p>
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<p>I'll be taking my D4 in to have the rubber button cover and dust shield fixed.<br> It has come off several times over the last year. I was able to get it re-attached each time, but it keeps coming off at random times. I would have lost it each time if not for the fact that a small edge of the dust shield around the rubber cap remains affixed to the inside of the camera.<br> I wonder, <br> Is this a common problem with the D4???<br> Anyone else have this issue?</p> <p> </p>
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<p>Today I was out trying my D810 at a bird sanctuary. I could not get the camera into AF-C mode.<br> I do it all the time with the D4, press the AF mode button near the base of the lens and spin the main command dial (the thumb-wheel).<br> On the D810 doing this has absolutely no effect (AF-S remains the method displayed on the LCD) and spinning the sub-command dial in front of the shutter release button cycles through S, GRP and AUTO, none of which are AF-C.<br> When I got home I checked page 87,88, 89, 306 and 307. It seems I am using the right technique, but nothing is happening.<br> AF-S sucks for birds in flight.<br> HELP!</p> <p> </p>
