************UPDATE, September 17th 2013*************** The CLS problem has been solved. On some early D800 cameras a circuit board which controls the popup flash must be replaced. That is what Nikon did with my camera. Read about the solution here and additional...
I get the impression that things are a little chaotic at Nikon. Today a customer service employee called me and asked for the serial number of my camera, because the dudes in Japan have asked for it. Me: “Well, I sent you the camera, flip it over and look at the...
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...
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...
