Left sided af points using wideangle lenses have issues. I read it on dpreview, tried and it yeah, my 24G backfocuses quite badly with the left sided points.
And the camera lags sometimes. Random times it just has this hourglass symbol and it stays like that for over 10-20seconds. Using a sandisk 16gb 95mb/s sd card, and i wasn;t shooting i was just trying to look at the first image in the card. When browsing menus it happens too, randomly.
Plus the green colour cast. That's all for me. I HOPE (i havent found anything else yet)
My D800 serial # US30015** which I have had since March 22nd , has no flaws. The monitor is fine blacks are black and whites are white and all colors look the same as my eyes see, it is very accurate. I use remote flashes a lot and have had no problems firing them with the pop up flash and cls.
There have been reports of the outer focus point not working right, strange as all my focus points work with all my lens at all apertures.
May be I have a rare D800 that is perfect in every way.
Dennis
The article stated the problem is tethered and using a small aperture. I hate terms like "small" since what is considered small? Some think f11 is small, while I consider f22 small. For all I know my D3s could have this problem since I don't recall ever using f22 in a studio setup and I don't shoot landscapes while tethered.
So, can somebody put a number to "small?" F22, f18, f11....
I'm testing a D800 from LensRentals right now, no yellow hue on the LCD. No problem with the commander flash at all. Accurately focuses on all 51 points at f1.4 and f.5.6, including far right and left focus points and corner focus points. Cards are an issue. I strongly recommend using the suggested cards in the manual if you don't want to see "Card Err." Haven't tried tethered shooting yet.
Did I mention the image quality, sharpness, and fine detail are all astounding!
thePond wrote:
The lcd comparison seems like a scam. The d800 shows as jpeg and the d3s shows as nef. Why wouldn't he compare apples with apples?
I thought they all showed as jpeg. How do you display a raw file without some type of processing?
Anyway my screen looks a bit on the warm side (the way I like it). It's definitely not green. If I didn't like it that way I could turn down the saturation for my jpeg files and that's what the live view will look like. Heck you can make the live view monochrome at all times if you wanted to. I guess this may be considered a problem for jpeg shooters but for raw shooters I see it as a non-issue.
MalbikEndar wrote:
A couple of definitions-
errata is usually a correction to a printed document
bug is a flaw in design or software
feature is a manufacturer's word for bug.
lol
Dennis H. wrote:
My D800 serial # US30015** which I have had since March 22nd , has no flaws. The monitor is fine blacks are black and whites are white and all colors look the same as my eyes see, it is very accurate. I use remote flashes a lot and have had no problems firing them with the pop up flash and cls.
There have been reports of the outer focus point not working right, strange as all my focus points work with all my lens at all apertures.
May be I have a rare D800 that is perfect in every way.
Dennis
My starts with US300*** as well. No issues.
I'm starting to see reports about people complaining the battery door is falling off by itself. The design doesn't look like it has changed from previous models and my D800 battery door has never fallen off and the door for any of my previous Nikon's.
I have us version 300xxx serial. No lock ups. No green LCD. No focus issues. I love this camera. Of course the detail is amazing, but better than that, the color, metering, responsiveness, are incredible. I came from canon and I am blown away. The face detect metering is wonderful for what I do (portraits). I have nothing but good to say about the d800 at almost 2k shots in.
I got my camera here in Norway two days ago and used it for a job last night.
And unfortunately had some problems
When using a cable release, live view, manual and manual focus it just locked up and a ERR message flashed in my display. I turned the camera on and off a couple of times and it disappeared. I turned of liveview for a couple of minutes and when I turned it on it appeared again. After removing the battery and turning off LV the camera started working.
Then again I got a message that my memory card was corrupted and that I needed to get a new one, turned the camera on and off and after that it worked like a charm the rest of the night.
I don't want to return it to the store, because I know they won't have a replacement for me for quite a while. I'm doing another shoot in a couple of hours, hopefully the camera will behave. Going to stop by the store I bought it after the shoot and have a talk with the sales guys.
D800E: no green cast, flash commander triggers remote SB-900 just fine.
I don't see why live view showing the stopped-down view is problematic. To me, it's showing what picture the camera would take if I pressed the shutter button. I find the idea that live view would function essentially like the optical viewfinder does to be a bit weird. Still, it seems like enough people find it weird that maybe Nikon should've made it a toggle.
Crewshin - are you saying that with an external monitor through the HDMI feed, that manual focus is improved over LV on the LCD? The manual focus issue is a concern for me, but if it can be solved with an external monitor that would be great.
