New d200 shutter costs?????????

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My d200 has finally died on me. Most annoyingly whilst I was on a job this morning. Fortunately work have a spare camera so that's on loan at the mo which means i can keep working. Bonus.

It would appear that it's a shutter/mirror issue as the mirror isn't flipping up anymore and the shutter refuses to move. It first did this in Scotland and I managed to fix it eventually by holding the mirror up with my finger and releasing the shutter (8 days into a 10 day holiday lol). It's been on and off since then and i've managed to hack it back into action every time until today.

Typically it's 1 month out of warranty and I missed out on the extended 2 year warranty by 2 months.


Now you understand why I don't do the lottery.

So, does anybody have any idea it's gonna cost for me to get Nikon to fix it?

They were very unhelpful on the phone refusing to even give me a ballpark figure for a new shutter mech!
 
I wouldn't imagine it will be cheap. Even if the part is "only" a couple of hundred pounds the labour charges would probaby make it uneconomical.

If it's only a month out of warranty why not "suggest" that they fix it as a goodwill gesture? Not sure how you'd get on as I can't say I've had many successful encounters in the past with Nikon Service, still worth a try though ;)
 
Sorry about this incident, do you mind us knowing roughly what kind of shutter count you've had on your D200 before it died on you?
 
I honestly don't know as I haven't shot any jpegs for a while and Iexif wont read the exif in NEF files. I'm guessing about 50-60k as it gets used everyday for work and pleasure. It's also had a few knocks and scrapes over the year I've had it including be dropped down a rocky embankment and being dipped in the good ole briney!

I did mention the word 'goodwill' to nikon and their reply was along the lines of 'get bent'
 
I know it's a bit like comparing apples to oranges, but, a friend of mine had a new shutter on his canon 30d and that cost him about £240.
 
Gandhi said:
I did mention the word 'goodwill' to nikon and their reply was along the lines of 'get bent'
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:lol:

It might be less than you think Spencer, I'm pretty sure it's a simple enough job, it's basically just a question of dropping in a complete new shutter assembly.

Try ringing Fixation?
 
:agree:

A 3rd party repair may be a lot cheaper, while also Nikon may not be that expensive!
 
Get a quote for how much it will cost, and if it sounds too much then buy a D300 :D
 
Bad luck with the timing of that.

£180 to replace a shutter on a Nikon D2X for a friend of mine. He went through Nikon Professional who turned it around very quickly.

Hope this helps.

Bob
 
Jessops are doing 12 months interest free on the d300, 2 year nikon warranty with an option to extend to 3
it's only £20 a week when you look at it like that, a packet of sandwiches a day.

Personally I wouldn't spend £200+ on a body with 60k actuations on it, my experience of electronics repairs is fix this one then 3 weeks later something else breaks.

You'll probably draw £100+ for the body as spares on ebay.

I had a fuji S2 pro that got dropped, big hunk of plastic and a circuit board broken, I took it to pieces to see how it worked, finished up with a sensor and main circuit board with shutter which were OK so I stuck them on ebay expecting to get £15, they made £77 :D
 
Unless you've been shooting thousands of frames a month there is no way a D200 shutter should die after only a year. I'd be back in contact with Nikon and stress that the D200 shutter is rated for 100,000 actuations and the fact it has died after a year it's clear that it was a manufacturing fault.

There is cover under the sales of goods act that means that the you should expect a reasonable life of a product and a year for amature use of a D200 shutter is not reasonable.

At the very least you should expect some form of goodwill, whether that is you only pay for 50% of the parts cost and they cover the other 50% and the labour.

However, you might not want to mention the previous problems and your manual attempts to fix it, they may say you did more damage so you pay the lot ;)
 
I got a quote for a D200 shutter fix after suspecting mine was at fault (it wasn't in the end fortunately).

I was quoted (by Nikon UK) approx £160.00 + VAT for parts and 4 hours labour. Apparently I was looking at about £300.00 + for it to be repaired ....

I'm not sure what components would be replaced as part of the mechanism, but it did appear a *lot* of money for what it was!
 
That's crazzy money to be spent today on a shutter repair for a D200, when a new one can be had for £640!

If this was a car repair, it would be a total write-off as the cost of repair exceeds 45% of a new one :shrug:
 
At the time, the body only cost about £990 so ....

There was no D300 at the time either - so it was a top end consumer camera. If you wanted it, you had to pay :'(
 
That's a lot of money for a part replacement! Sorry you've had to endure that ... that makes me wonder how much it would cost to replace the sensor? :shrug: ... the parts are really far more expensive than I originally thought.
 
SimonTALM said:
Unless you've been shooting thousands of frames a month there is no way a D200 shutter should die after only a year. I'd be back in contact with Nikon and stress that the D200 shutter is rated for 100,000 actuations and the fact it has died after a year it's clear that it was a manufacturing fault.

There is cover under the sales of goods act that means that the you should expect a reasonable life of a product and a year for amature use of a D200 shutter is not reasonable.

At the very least you should expect some form of goodwill, whether that is you only pay for 50% of the parts cost and they cover the other 50% and the labour.

However, you might not want to mention the previous problems and your manual attempts to fix it, they may say you did more damage so you pay the lot ;)
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Unfortunately Simon I've been using it professionally.

I reckon it's had close to 60,000 actuations over the 13 months I've had it!


LeeP said:
I got a quote for a D200 shutter fix after suspecting mine was at fault (it wasn't in the end fortunately).

I was quoted (by Nikon UK) approx £160.00 + VAT for parts and 4 hours labour. Apparently I was looking at about £300.00 + for it to be repaired ....

I'm not sure what components would be replaced as part of the mechanism, but it did appear a *lot* of money for what it was!
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*gulp*

Think I might be getting a new camera then!

Anyways, it's off to Nikon for an estimate tomoz when I finally get chance to visit the GPO. Fingers crossed.


Now, can I persuade work to purchase a d3, 14-24, 17-35, 24-70 and 70-200 for me to use.....
 
Could this be the best excuse for you to start looking seriously at buying your next dSLR?

This is how I approach most of my body's acquistions! When my existing work-horse dSLR goes in for service is when I buy the next body I want. By practicing this ritual I don't fall for the body-lust which would hurt me beyond the damage caused with the lens-lust syndrome, as much as I want to buy the D300 / D3!! Sometimes this logic is just not logical :shrug:
 
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