Today Nikon released the anticipated first firmware update for the D800, D800e and the D4. The B firmware is updated from version 1.00 to 1.01 (side note: What is the difference between the A firmware and the B firmware ? Does anyone know ?). The update is supposed to...
Today my local camera store called that my D800 is back from the dead service. That’s good ! But. The outcome of the nearly four weeks the camera spent at the service: Nothing. Nada. Nihil. Zero. Nichts. Rien.That’s bad. They tested my D800 with a SB-600,...
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...
************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...
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...
