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Considering switching to the Nikon D800? Read this first!
UnkleVito!:
I have just spent close to three hours reviewing the Nikon Rumors blog entries on the Nikon D800, and the horror stories of several users that have received their brand new D800s bodies only to experience several functional issues included but not limited to out-of-focus on certain high-end lenses, white/black dots on photos specially on long exposures, black dots on sensor (oil drops/debris) from factory shipped cameras, on/off lockup, green tint of LCD display, hiss on audio recording, flash not triggering, and others... Here is the link to the blogs which describes these functional issues...
http://nikonrumors.com/forum/topic.php?id=5517
After reading and assessing these functional issues, and considering that every newly released product may be subject to functional "bugs" which may or may had not been discovered and/or detected during the beta testings; it is my opinion that the severity of the initial handful of functional issues that some users are experiencing with their Canon 5D Mark III are not even close to the pile of serious and critical malfunctions that the D800 is having...
Razor2012:
--- Quote from: UnkleVito! on April 26, 2012, 06:15:10 AM ---I have just spent close to three hours reviewing the Nikon Rumors blog entries on the Nikon D800, and the horror stories of several users that have received their brand new D800s bodies only to experience several functional issues included but not limited to out-of-focus on certain high-end lenses, white/black dots on photos specially on long exposures, black dots on sensor (oil drops/debris) from factory shipped cameras, on/off lockup, green tint of LCD display, hiss on audio recording, flash not triggering, and others... Here is the link to the blogs which describes these functional issues...
http://nikonrumors.com/forum/topic.php?id=5517
After reading and assessing these functional issues, and considering that every newly released product may be subject to functional "bugs" which may or may had not been discovered and/or detected during the beta testings; it is my opinion that the severity of the initial handful of functional issues that some users are experiencing with their Canon 5D Mark III are not even close to the pile of serious and critical malfunctions that the D800 is having...
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I read those too and thought it was funny. ;D ;)
Fishnose:
--- Quote from: Razor2012 on April 26, 2012, 01:11:42 PM ---I read those too and thought it was funny. ;D ;)
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Really? So what was funny about it?
Abraxx:
--- Quote from: UnkleVito! on April 26, 2012, 06:15:10 AM ---I have just spent close to three hours reviewing the Nikon Rumors blog entries on the Nikon D800, and the horror stories of several users that have received their brand new D800s bodies only to experience several functional issues included but not limited to out-of-focus on certain high-end lenses, white/black dots on photos specially on long exposures, black dots on sensor (oil drops/debris) from factory shipped cameras, on/off lockup, green tint of LCD display, hiss on audio recording, flash not triggering, and others... Here is the link to the blogs which describes these functional issues...
http://nikonrumors.com/forum/topic.php?id=5517
After reading and assessing these functional issues, and considering that every newly released product may be subject to functional "bugs" which may or may had not been discovered and/or detected during the beta testings; it is my opinion that the severity of the initial handful of functional issues that some users are experiencing with their Canon 5D Mark III are not even close to the pile of serious and critical malfunctions that the D800 is having...
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+1
Thats exactly my impression too.
Razor2012:
--- Quote from: Fishnose on April 26, 2012, 02:38:18 PM ---
--- Quote from: Razor2012 on April 26, 2012, 01:11:42 PM ---I read those too and thought it was funny. ;D ;)
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Really? So what was funny about it?
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Funny in the sense that it's nice to see there are problems in the other camp also.
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