Nikon D750 & D780

minnnt said:
Cave Dale is a doddle by the looks of it. Close to the road. Shoot that, maybe call in at Ladybower on the way back then a day out somewhere with the family. Then before you know it, back at work.

WooHoo
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There's still some edges and I'm like a zombie in a morning. Not a good combo ;)
 
phil_b said:
Belfast zoo is our local, not been in a couple of years and the boys will enjoy it which is the main thing.
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Ooh, one I've not been to. Deffo looking forward to the pics then :)
 
Well mine was reset but it's currently up to 5k. I believe mine was replaced as it was happening regularly (every day!) to the point where i was getting the shutter curtain in the frame. I have no proof it was done as it was completed at the same time as the rear screen fix.
 
minnnt said:
Well mine was reset but it's currently up to 5k. I believe mine was replaced as it was happening regularly (every day!) to the point where i was getting the shutter curtain in the frame. I have no proof it was done as it was completed at the same time as the rear screen fix.
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Thanks for this. You didn't send it direct to Nikon did you though so maybe the other place did it, or maybe by replacing the screen it reset everything? Would be interested to hear from others who have had the recall done.

How's the weather in the Hope Valley this morning, any luck?
 
Crapola. Back home now and the sun is shining. :LOL: grey skies a plenty so just used it as a reccy in the end. Should be able to make some nice shots there with the right weather conditions. Could also do some nice star stuff on a moonlit night.

I asked them to get Nikon to sort the recall issue and on return the shutter count on myshuttercount.com showed as 0. (well, +5). It's also never locked up since so It's obviously been done. I should give Nikon a ring really and get them to check. Could also ask them to email me proof.
 
minnnt said:
Crapola. Back home now and the sun is shining. :LOL: grey skies a plenty so just used it as a reccy in the end. Should be able to make some nice shots there with the right weather conditions. Could also do some nice star stuff on a moonlit night.

I asked them to get Nikon to sort the recall issue and on return the shutter count on myshuttercount.com showed as 0. (well, +5). It's also never locked up since so It's obviously been done. I should give Nikon a ring really and get them to check. Could also ask them to email me proof.
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Frustrating when that happens. Driven past many a time but never actually been, looks nice though.

On another 'rant', I give up with my camera. This morning AF very inconsistent. With fine tune off centre point slightly front focussing and far right back focussing (these are the two points I use the most) Set fine tune to fix centre point and far right way off. Now the 'twilight zone' moment, set fine tune to fix far right point back focus and bizarrely it appears (at the moment) to also fix the centre point front focus. Confused? I know I am. Seems like it changes its mind everytime it's turned off :lol:

Maybe a good excuse to try out a D810 :ROFLMAO:
 
snerkler said:
Frustrating when that happens. Driven past many a time but never actually been, looks nice though.

On another 'rant', I give up with my camera. This morning AF very inconsistent. With fine tune off centre point slightly front focussing and far right back focussing (these are the two points I use the most) Set fine tune to fix centre point and far right way off. Now the 'twilight zone' moment, set fine tune to fix far right point back focus and bizarrely it appears (at the moment) to also fix the centre point front focus. Confused? I know I am. Seems like it changes its mind everytime it's turned off :LOL:

Maybe a good excuse to try out a D810 :ROFLMAO:
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That`s pants mate. I feel for you. But my main reason not to send mine away. Nikon should give you a new body at least.
 
Paulie-W said:
That`s pants mate. I feel for you. But my main reason not to send mine away. Nikon should give you a new body at least.
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Well that would be nice. I've tried and tried today to 'fudge it' but no matter what I try it's not right, and when you're using over £3k worth of gear (when new) you shouldn't have to 'fudge it' It was actually better before, at least all AF points were consistent on my 70-200mm when set to +12, now the right hand side ones are different to the rest, the left one's match the centre one. It wouldn't be so bad if it was the other way around tbh as I very seldomly use the left ones. I tend to stick to central for general stuff, motorsports and wildlife, and then when shooting runners etc with the camera in portrait orientation I use the right hand side ones (which then of course become the top ones when the camera is in portrait).

I'm going to email Nikon tomorrow, explain the scenario and then ask what tests were carried out last time as it was supposed to have been double checked by the senior technician.

My thoughts are that they just check that the module and mirror are aligned properly and don't actually take test shots. Based on how the camera is behaving (ie the right ones being out, and being the ones that were playing up most with the Sigmas) it might be that the actual AF sensors are fubar and reading wrong, or at least some communication between these and the software. Of course this is all guesswork on my behalf as I don't really know exactly these things work. I'd be very surprised if it's purely an alignment thing as my brain tells me that if it was misaligned right to left then if the right back focus and the centre front focus then the left would front focus even more than the centre, which they don't. If it was tilted top to bottom then I would expect all those across the midline to be equal.

One other thing that I noticed today, although I'm pretty sure that this is down to me losing faith a scrutinising things, is that when I press the OK to view 1:1 it doesn't quite zoom in to where the AF point was when using the outer points. i.e if I shoot with the far right AF point and zoom 1:1 it zooms in to the right of where the AF point was. If I use the outer left point and zoom 1:1 then it zooms to the left of the AF point. It even struck me that maybe this is why it's mis-focussing as the AF points aren't matching where they are on the sensor but it makes no odds, I've even shot a brick wall straight on and of course this wouldn't matter if the AF point was slightly to the left or right. It's probably always done this with 1:1 zooming, just never paid that much attention to it.

Trouble is now I'm spending more time over analysing the camera rather than enjoying pics. Hopefully third time lucky and I can get back to enjoying photography :)
 
Fingers crossed mate. So much for the senior tech` .. pah I guess they just have a quick look to see if it`s all been put back correctly. Definitely sounds squirly with the focus points though, and not miss alignment. Could be a dodgy one. Hopefully they`ll put it on super priority, and get it sorted asap. Ask for emails of test pattern shots which of course you`ll insist they take ;)
 
Paulie-W said:
Fingers crossed mate. So much for the senior tech` .. pah I guess they just have a quick look to see if it`s all been put back correctly. Definitely sounds squirly with the focus points though, and not miss alignment. Could be a dodgy one. Hopefully they`ll put it on super priority, and get it sorted asap. Ask for emails of test pattern shots which of course you`ll insist they take ;)
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Of course. What the hell are they though :lol:
 
I've always been crap at testing these things but I've notice where I focus doesn't seem as sharp as to where it should be sometime it is sometime it isn't.

That why I keep thinking going Sony mirror less as I believe these won't have as much issue with AF points?
 
rookies said:
I've always been crap at testing these things but I've notice where I focus doesn't seem as sharp as to where it should be sometime it is sometime it isn't.

That why I keep thinking going Sony mirror less as I believe these won't have as much issue with AF points?
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I might be joining you moving to Sony at this rate :LOL:
 
rookies said:
Erm I think we can set the pad on the back to change AF points like we do on the D750
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Not as far as I'm aware, you have to press a button to activate it and then you can use the pad to move the AF point, same as on the G7x and RX100.
 
snerkler said:
Not as far as I'm aware, you have to press a button to activate it and then you can use the pad to move the AF point, same as on the G7x and RX100.
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Yip press the ok Botton in the middle then it activate it..
 
snerkler said:
All 4 were Sigma f1.4's, one used and three brand spankers. All new ones sent back to Amazon which then made them email me to ask why I was returning so many items :oops: :$ Because of this I'm reluctant to buy anymore and keep having to return them, and I'm too busy at present to get to the camera shop to see if I can try a few there (I don't have a particularly local shop). The f1.8's I've tried that need +18 were Nikon, so it's not just Sigma that need extreme adjustments. I would like to try a Nikon 85mm f1.4 to see if I get the same results as the Sigma, but I can't afford one of those and I can't buy one and return it just so that I can test it :LOL:
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Whereabouts you based? I have the Nikon 85 1.4G which you can try out.

I had the same issues - two D750s both unable to focus accurately to the point where I sold one Sigma 70-200 2.8 os lens and couldn't even use the Nikon 70-200 2.8VR lens as the focus was so poor. Both bodies went back and forth a few times in late 2015 / early 2016.

Have to say that now, I am confident at shooting the sigma 35 1.4 @ 1.4 (+6 AFMA) on one body and the other with the 85 1.4G @ 1.4 (+3 AFMA).

I spoke to Nikon about the +3 AFMA and they asked me to resend the body with the lens and they'd calibrate it to 0 AFMA but I haven't done this.
 
dkh said:
Whereabouts you based? I have the Nikon 85 1.4G which you can try out.

I had the same issues - two D750s both unable to focus accurately to the point where I sold one Sigma 70-200 2.8 os lens and couldn't even use the Nikon 70-200 2.8VR lens as the focus was so poor. Both bodies went back and forth a few times in late 2015 / early 2016.

Have to say that now, I am confident at shooting the sigma 35 1.4 @ 1.4 (+6 AFMA) on one body and the other with the 85 1.4G @ 1.4 (+3 AFMA).

I spoke to Nikon about the +3 AFMA and they asked me to resend the body with the lens and they'd calibrate it to 0 AFMA but I haven't done this.
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Thanks, very kind of you indeed, although I have already received an offer from someone to try the same lens. I'm in Chesterfield btw.

I have just contacted Nikon so await their reply. At present It's totally fubar as the AF points aren't even consistent anymore with my 70-200mm, at least before +12 corrected all AF points. Now I have the same issue with this lens as I did the 85mm f1.4's I tried in that correcting the centre point makes the outer right go way off (but bizarrely not the outer left). At 0 MA the centre point is just about tolerable, although not 'tack sharp' as front focusses. The outer right is just beyond acceptable and back focuses, and is worse the further the subject distance. To correct the centre point so that it is tack sharp it needs +12, but to correct the outer right one so that it is tack sharp it needs -15 :( I use the outer right point a lot when in portrait orientation.
 
Sorry to hear about the issues - I thought I was the only one with different focusing points! I didn't try your experiment but I can say that the focusing screen was out. My issue was that center was center if that's the focus point I chose. The next one, eg directly above and the actual focus would be just above if that makes sense and has it got closer to the furthest outer points it would actually focus even further out in a radial way.

This wouldn't matter if I just chose the center focus point and recomposed but (like you), I moved from the 5D3 and I never used center focus on that - instead I'd choose a focus point close to what I wanted to focus on (for arguments sake nearer the 2/3rds rule) and would always miss focus!
 
minnnt said:
Only thing for it is to buy a 5d3...
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Or wait for the 5D4 ;)

TBH I did weigh up several options yesterday and that was one of them, but I just can't bring myself to lose all that money switching systems, especially when going for the 5D3 would be a downgrade and no doubt the 5D4 will be silly money on release (the 5D3 is already over priced imo being £900 more than the D750 and even £100 more than the D810 :eek:). I just need Nikon to put right what's broken.
 
dkh said:
Sorry to hear about the issues - I thought I was the only one with different focusing points! I didn't try your experiment but I can say that the focusing screen was out. My issue was that center was center if that's the focus point I chose. The next one, eg directly above and the actual focus would be just above if that makes sense and has it got closer to the furthest outer points it would actually focus even further out in a radial way.

This wouldn't matter if I just chose the center focus point and recomposed but (like you), I moved from the 5D3 and I never used center focus on that - instead I'd choose a focus point close to what I wanted to focus on (for arguments sake nearer the 2/3rds rule) and would always miss focus!
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I did further tests yesterday and the focus points do actually focus on the subject I want, and the actual AF points pretty much match the squares on the focussing screen (I used AF-C then moved then AF point back back and forth over a close subject with a large distance behind it to see when the focus 'swapped' to the background) but they just either front or back focus.
 
Last night just before the kids went to bed...

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Shot at the required aperture. It seems my 50mm is permanently attached now!
 
snerkler said:
I did further tests yesterday and the focus points do actually focus on the subject I want, and the actual AF points pretty much match the squares on the focussing screen (I used AF-C then moved then AF point back back and forth over a close subject with a large distance behind it to see when the focus 'swapped' to the background) but they just either front or back focus.
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I'm confused Toby, does this mean it was ok all along?
 
Livin The Dream said:
I'm confused Toby, does this mean it was ok all along?
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Lol sorry for the confusion. No, all the right hand cluster are still back focussing when the rest are fine. What I meant by the statement above was that the squares I see on the focus screen do actually correlate to the position of the AF sensors on the module. I got the impression from the other member that on his Canon the squares on the focus screen didn't actually match where they were on the sensor and so he had to correct for this, probably by putting the subject just outside the box rather than in it. Does this make any more sense? :confused:o_O:p
 
"Cracking" set of family shots m8, liking them all very much. That first mono shot is deffo one to show his future girlfriends.(y)

George.
 
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