D7000 Problems...

February 10th, 2011

In their mad rush to roll out the wildly successful D7000 in time for the Christmas Season, Nikon appears to have foregone their quality assurance to leave us with a bunch of duds. Well, almost.
Everyone and their aunt seems to have one of these now, a D7000.

It IS better than it's predecessor, the D90, but really THAT much better? Well, some seemed to have thought so, including me.

I bought mine early, just as the camera was announced, to replace my D90 travel camera. It took ages to arrive, mostly because Nikon focussed it's sales on the Kit model for the newbies. Body-only peeps had to wait, and this is still true, months later.

The first thing I noticed with the 17-55mm lens was that focussing sometimes just didn't activate. It seemed dead. I'd fiddle with the AF button on the front left and then suddenly it would spring into action. I uploaded the firmware upgrade but that didn't help either. Being a sporadic problem, I went to Nikon's Repair Center personally to show the camera. Apparently the lens locking switch needs replacement. I'm glad that they found the problem.

Then I noticed that the manual's pages were all haywire, some pages were missing and others were out of sequence. Got a replacement from Nikon.

An acquaintance's D7000's light meter doesn't work, another case for repair. This is my 7th Nikon camera but the first to need any repairs when new. Hope things clear up soon.

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