Nothing spectacular today, just the news that UPS delivered the new EN-EL15 battery today. The delivery man opens the package, hands you the new battery, takes the old one, you sign the delivery and that’s it. Now I have to wait for my D800 to come back from...
Do you see a baby in the above image ? No ? Me neither. It’s enough, I am seriously not amused. Today I made a studio session and out of 125 images 58 (fifty-eight) are black because the flashes did not fire. That is 46,4 % of all images taken ! Since I was...
This post is for anybody who considers buying a D800 and I want to point out that the extra cost connected to the purchase must be calculated into the budget. I am having the camera for less than a month now. Since it was quite foreseeable that 36 Megapixels will fill...
Yesterday I received another answer from Nikon customer service concerning the problem with the CLS system (triggering flashes wirelessly that is). Recap: During a shoot I discovered that the internal popup flash of the D800 won’t trigger the slave flashes...
#I reported the issue with the CLS master function of the D800 to Nikon Germany. They tried to reproduce the problem. I got this answer: “Dear Mr., thank you very much for your inquiry. We have tested the master function with four Nikon D800 bodies but could not...
I received feedback from several users regarding the CLS problem which occurs with the Nikon D800. Well, it is not reproducible, therefore it sometimes occurs and sometimes it works, which is what I encountered again when I shot the title picture for this post. I...