Nikon Rumors:
Nikon published a new technical service advisory where they announced a free cleaning and free shutter replacement for all D600 owners, even those with expired warranty. You can send your camera even if you do not have a problem.
If you have an affected D600, go to the Nikon site and schedule your free service. If your D600 isn’t exhibiting any of the (sadly common) dust/oil issues (mine isn’t), hold off on scheduling the service until the first mad rush is over but make sure you definitely do it some time in the next three to six months.
Good to know. I thought mine was fine until I tried to make an HDR image. All the “dust” spots (oil) were magnified like no ones business. This was just 300 actuations in. I cleaned it, and it was fine until a month or two down the road, I did a check, and it was covered again (mind you, I only own one lens at the moment, and never took it off…and I also did the cleaning in a mostly sterile, anti-static building where hard drives are meant to be built). I set the aperture to 16, and adjusted all the settings under whatever light condition I had to take a 2 second exposure. I shot a solid surface with no texture or color variation, and made a circle motion with the camera while the shutter was open. Bam, covered in schmutz. I’ve cleaned it 4 times now, and every time I get it clean, it doesn’t take long for junk to start showing up. Just sad that they didn’t take the initiative to make this right until people started organizing a class action lawsuit, but at least this is finally happening. Those of you with no issue are lucky, but I’d implore you to try the above test to make absolutely sure, while this window is open.
“This was just 300 actuations in…”
How can you see how many “actuations” there have been?
Open a recent image from your DSLR in photoshop, then go to file > file info. Under one of the tabs across the top (I forget off hand…it’s been awhile since I checked) it will tell you the shutter count for that image. You might have to do some scrolling. Using the method described above to check the sensor, I usually import one of the spotty images in that series to get a current count.
Sorry I didn’t answer sooner…you probably already googled it. :¬
Thanks.
Not a problem. Thanks for the response!