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Bought this camera yesterday and am slightly worried about the shutter, the problem is: when I depress the shutter button it takes aprox 1 whole second to do a full open and close no matter what setting I'm on, if I set say to continuous on top left, Iso 200 1.4 at 2000 sec it still takes 1 sec to do a cycle?? If I hold the button down it will shoot continuous but very slow, in the custom menu it's set to 3fps but it's more like 1fps.
I hope this is just a setting I've missed?
Lens is a 50mm 1.4g
Any help is appreciated.
 
hard to say without a lot more info. What re your release options set to on the menu (ie is it confirming focus before every shot)?
 
Yea it confirms focus with the green indicator fine, is there a factory reset? The guy who had it before me was using some really old lenses and the camera was set up really weird.
 
if its not firing the shutter till focus is confirmed that may slow it down. If you press the 2 buttons on top with green dots (I think is qual and exp braketing) it does a factory reset
 
d9 Exposure delay mode

This makes the D700 wait 4/10s of a second to release the shutter after you press it.
It flips up the mirror first.

Could this be the 'problem'?
 
Have to ask - how did you miss this when you tried it? Did you ask the seller about it?
 
Sound like the camera is stuck on 1sec shutter speed,try a full reset then switch to shutter priority and try all the shutter speeds,if its still doing it their could be a problem with the shutter.
 
gramps said:
d9 Exposure delay mode

This makes the D700 wait 4/10s of a second to release the shutter after you press it.
It flips up the mirror first.

Could this be the 'problem'?
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This^^^^^
 
Sounds like this could be it ^^^ I'm at work rite now but will test as soon as I get back. Thanks for suggestions.
 
gadgeteer said:
Out of interest, what does it do?
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Designed to eliminate/reduce any image blur from the action of the mirror - it takes the mirror up and then activates the shutter.
 
Its like mirror lock up, but mirror lock up requires two presses of the shutter, one to raise and one to shoot, I guess you could call it auto lock up, as it does the lock up and shutter release in one.
 
Haha success so happy and thank you for the help!!!!

I thought it was strange as when I jerked the camera to try and get motion blur it was still perfectly sharp!
Thanks again!!! Relief!
 
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