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Yes, the exact behavior the OP is describing is caused by a dead battery. It might be worth trying another fresh battery just to see.

Purchasing another D800 makes sense to me. The camera still does everything it did 10 years ago.

Hi everyone, This might be a longshot, but I wanted to know if anyone had some ideas about an odd error with a lens of mine. This is an older 105mm 2.8 micro lens, screw-driven AF, with a large toggle switch on the lens barrel for switching between AF and M focusing. It's really a great lens for my purposes. The issue is this: if the lens focuses to infinity (or almost infinity), the reported f/stop becomes f/32 (regardless of what I have it set to) and the AF stops completely. The only way to fix either issue is to set the lens to manual focusing and pull back to less than infinity. Then the lens jumps back to normal use. It's kind of annoying to work with because any time the lens searches too far towards infinity, the AF shuts down. Any thoughts to what is causing this? Thanks.

It was always my understanding that modern lenses avoid the hard stop at infinity as a way to compensate for changes in temperature/humidity. As the lens shrinks or expands at a miniscule level, the ability to focus past infinity allows for breathing room. With a hard stop, it might be possible to get in a situation where you couldn't focus all the way to infinity.

I've used a Nikon 18-200 DX lens since 2007...still use it very often for outdoor walks where I don't have a particular subject in mind, and for a lot of general work. This lens has been a real workhorse for me. I can't vouch for others, but my particular copy of this lens is quite sharp and the images are very acceptable. I actually use it a lot with FX cameras. Some FX cameras shadow the unused portion of the viewfinder, making DX lenses easy to use. Agreed!

I have a 105mm 2:8 Micro that looks very similar to the lenses in the OP's photo. I've used it for years with a D3X for food photography, and the lens performs wonderfully.

I use a USB card reader plugged into the computer, and take the cards out of my camera and into the card reader.

Hi all, I'm going to be migrating my Lightroom Classic catalog of 360,000+ photos to a fresh Windows installation. My question is—that's a lot of previews to re-build, can I migrate the previews.lrdata folders too? Or is that a recipe for corrupting something? Is it better to let the catalog re-build them all on the new drive from scratch? Thanks

Yes, it seems you must move your source sample slightly before syncing to all the other images. That worked.

Hello, Tonight in Lightroom Classic, I tried to copy the same spot removal brush stroke from one image, onto a series of nearly identical images (it's a stop-motion animation sequence). Oddly, I see that Lightroom Classic chooses a new sampling area for every photo! It doesn't just copy the exact same sampling location that I chose in the original image. This is annoying in my stop-motion, because you see the change image-to-image. It seems to re-sample whether you copy/paste the Spot Removal or use the "Previous" button. Does anyone know of a way to make it copy my sampling location?

Yes, I often have to periodically re-log in with the existing password. This was a "you have no choice" requirement to create a new one ("enter a new password, type it again to verify"), across all Adobe apps as well as the Adobe.com account inside a browser. I went ahead and updated it as I said and everything's good now. Just curious why it was required.

I chatted with an Adobe agent and he said it was for security reasons. I asked if this was a normal Adobe security update, and he said yes. He didn't really explain why, but as long as there's not a problem I guess it's OK. Anybody else have this happen?

I don't think so...it's doing it across multiple devices, and even when I sign in to a browser on the Adobe website. Seems legit. Perhaps it has to do with the recent CC update?

Hi all, My Creative Cloud desktop app and the programs (Photoshop, etc...) are requesting me to update my Adobe ID password this morning. Never had it ask me to do that before. Any ideas why it's suddenly asking for a password update? Thanks.

OK...figured it out. The "Show All Other Lightroom Presets" button opens the wrong folder on my machine; it needed to open the Appdata/Roaming/Adobe/Lightroom folder. Once I put my Script folder in there, it worked.

Hello, I'm trying to get this process to work: Script to extract previews of lost or deleted photos I follow Adobe's directions exactly and get nothing...the "Scripts" menu item never appears. Any ideas? Something I'm missing? Windows 7, Lightroom Classic 8.3.1

Thanks for all the suggestions!

Hi, I'm looking for advice on what extension tube to try. I'm using a wide-angle Nikon G lens and would like to add an extension tube so I can shoot "environmental portraits" of small animals like salamanders, frogs, etc...Basically I'm just looking to increase the minimum focusing distance of my wide angle. Ideally the extension tube would allow for autofocusing. Any suggestions?

This spring marked 10 years for me using a D3x regularly. What a great camera.

Thanks for the info!

Hi, quick question about the repair estimate form on the Nikon USA site. Will they only repair products that are on the drop-down list? For example, under "Film Cameras" they list the F5 and F6, but not the F100. Does this mean that I can't get that camera repaired from Nikon? Or just that I can't get an automatic estimate from the site? Same with lenses--I have a good 105 macro that is a couple of generations old and isn't on the list either. Am I out of luck?

OK, just curious. I know this doesn't effect the performance of the camera at all, but what was your reaction to the shape/look/design of the camera from a strictly aesthetic perspective?

Well, I never used a D3, so I can't directly compare. I can say that I find the color saturation from the D3X to be excellent indeed. Like other cameras, color saturation tends to take a hit at very high ISOs, but at 100, 200, 400, 800, I find the colors very good. Can I link to a page on my website that shows some photos taken with the D3X?

OK, a longtime D3X user here. I won't weigh in on the choice of D3X vs D8xx, because I've never used the D8xx series so I can't personally compare. But I will share my experiences with the D3X. I've been shooting with it since 2009, and it often sees weekly and sometimes daily use. I find it to be an outstanding machine--for what I photograph and my workflow. Others may not have the same needs, depending on their goals and how they work. I find that shooting a flagship-style camera is a real delight. The viewfinder is large and bright, the robust size and handling are nice, and the camera shows very little wear even though it has been used a lot (my now-retired D200, on the other hand, is only slightly older and has many worn parts!). I use the D3X a lot in the studio with strobes, but also with natural window light and reflectors. At ISO 100 with the strobes, I find the image quality excellent. I've never had a complaint there. With window light, I might go up to ISO 800 or 1000. You start to see some noise at 800, but not too bad. Beyond ISO 1000 things start to deteriorate, although still be usable :) I also shoot extensively outdoors with this camera, sometimes in harsh-ish weather conditions: rain, wind, heavy snow, -20 degrees F. I've shot through a few blizzards with it. The camera has always performed perfectly. Obviously, folks use other cameras in those conditions as well. But I do know that I'm confident when shooting this camera in bad weather The clients I photograph for specifically require +22 megapixel files. I've thought about moving to a D8xx series camera, but I like how the D3X delivers me the quality and resolution I need in robust package. Again, other users with different needs may have different opinions.

Thanks for the replies, it's helpful. I do a lot of hiking in wooded and rural areas (fields, forests, etc...) and an all-in-one zoom is very enjoyable to use for these hikes. I never know what I'm going to see or photograph on these occasions, so having a single (and fairly lightweight) lens for all focal lengths works well. For serious work, the 70-200 f2.8 is my main lens, along with a 105mm macro. However, I naturally occasionally have a need to shoot wide angles for work, too. In those instances, my old 18-200 worked fine, because it was actually very sharp, especially at the wide end. One photo from my 18-200 taken during one of my hikes actually ended up as a magazine cover. Naturally, I would be somewhat disappointed if the new lens wasn't equally as sharp, but perhaps that's wishful thinking. So my thought here is to get a new all-in-one zoom as the hiking lens, and occasionally use it for wide angle serious work. Hope that makes sense. Both of my cameras are 24 megapixels.