Comments on: D700 trip to Nikon service center http://www.radiantlite.com/2009/06/d700-trip-to-nikon-service-center.html Digital photography guide, news and discussion Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:08:26 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: youtah http://www.radiantlite.com/2009/06/d700-trip-to-nikon-service-center.html/comment-page-1#comment-3665 youtah Thu, 23 Sep 2010 20:12:04 +0000 http://www.radiantlite.com/?p=216#comment-3665 I also just got my D700 back from the service center. It took, overall, 22 days before I got it back. That was with over night shipping and a "RUSH" placed on the repair. Mine was under warranty as well. My D700 stopped working and wouldn't power on at all. Not even recognize the battery when I first put it in. It was 100% bricked. This happened 15 days before my manufacture warranty went out. *Phew! Bullet dodged!* My eye piece also fell off at some point in time. I picked it up to take a picture and... gone! Kinda strange for an eyepiece to just fall off like that. I ended up replacing it with the DK-17M (1.2x magnified eye piece, which I love btw). Long story short, these were the services performed and repairs made: Replaced the main PCB. Replaced the DC/DC converter. Replaced the memory compression. Replaced the grips (that was a nice surprise). Adjusted the auto focus. Adjusted the AE operation. Checked the shutter mechanism. Cleaned the image sensor. Performed a general body check and performed a general cleaning. How my camera went out is beyond me. It wasn't ever exposed to water, harsh conditions, never dropped and never even banged for that matter. You'd think that I had wrapped it in aluminum foil, dunked it in a bowl of water and had then microwaved it. The camera works great... again. Very painful experience to go without for almost a month. I also just got my D700 back from the service center. It took, overall, 22 days before I got it back. That was with over night shipping and a “RUSH” placed on the repair. Mine was under warranty as well.

My D700 stopped working and wouldn’t power on at all. Not even recognize the battery when I first put it in. It was 100% bricked. This happened 15 days before my manufacture warranty went out. *Phew! Bullet dodged!*

My eye piece also fell off at some point in time. I picked it up to take a picture and… gone! Kinda strange for an eyepiece to just fall off like that. I ended up replacing it with the DK-17M (1.2x magnified eye piece, which I love btw).

Long story short, these were the services performed and repairs made:
Replaced the main PCB. Replaced the DC/DC converter. Replaced the memory compression. Replaced the grips (that was a nice surprise). Adjusted the auto focus. Adjusted the AE operation. Checked the shutter mechanism. Cleaned the image sensor. Performed a general body check and performed a general cleaning.

How my camera went out is beyond me. It wasn’t ever exposed to water, harsh conditions, never dropped and never even banged for that matter. You’d think that I had wrapped it in aluminum foil, dunked it in a bowl of water and had then microwaved it.

The camera works great… again. Very painful experience to go without for almost a month.

]]> By: tmp http://www.radiantlite.com/2009/06/d700-trip-to-nikon-service-center.html/comment-page-1#comment-1196 tmp Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:48:24 +0000 http://www.radiantlite.com/?p=216#comment-1196 I say bad quality control on D700. My 6 weeks old D700 is in the service center right now, been in there for almost 2 weeks. I experienced some image banding problem when the cam was 3 weeks old - faint vertical color bars across a few images, then the problem got worst - all images were corrupted. Bottom line, the fault lies in the image printed circuit board but the technician could not identify why, how and which part of the PCB that was a problem. Apparently, this is the 1st D700 in my country (Malaysia) with this problem. Anyways, good news is that I will get my new D700 replacement within this week. However I'm not happy that I'm still in the dark with how and why such problem arise + bad nikon quality control. I say bad quality control on D700. My 6 weeks old D700 is in the service center right now, been in there for almost 2 weeks. I experienced some image banding problem when the cam was 3 weeks old – faint vertical color bars across a few images, then the problem got worst – all images were corrupted. Bottom line, the fault lies in the image printed circuit board but the technician could not identify why, how and which part of the PCB that was a problem. Apparently, this is the 1st D700 in my country (Malaysia) with this problem. Anyways, good news is that I will get my new D700 replacement within this week. However I’m not happy that I’m still in the dark with how and why such problem arise + bad nikon quality control.

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