Joy, but tempered with a taste of pissed off

[pecunium]

My camera came back from El Segundo today. Looking at it it seems they did a cleaning, so the sensor ought to be free of spots, but they also lost the covoer for the cable release. Not only does this irk me from an aesthetic standpoint, but that means there are 10 exposed pin-slots and a bunch of fine-pitch threads exposed to dust and water.

Now to make phone call demanding a new one.

Sonnovabitch!

Comments

[crisavec.livejournal.com]

Thats the odd thing. I couldn't see any damage at all, it just stopped focusing and metering on me, in the middle of shooting Multnomah Falls one afternoon. All the lenses I had would mount with no glitchs or hangs anywhere in the process, they just wouldn't autofocus or meter correctly(or at all).

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Nikon didn't tell you what was wrong?

Did you change lenses at the time the failure occured? Because it sounds as if you had some sort of short.

To combine a comment, the other nice thing about the MC-20 is that it takes either a large watch battery (CR2032) or draws a small charge off the camera battery to run.

The first time I opened the battery compartment was just now to see what it took (which is cast in the plastic).

TK

[crisavec.livejournal.com]

They declared it a Class C Major Damage, and reported the fix as Bayonet Mount Replacement. But thats all they told me.

No lens change at the time, and if I recall I hadn't changed lenses in several days. It was a touch damp, but I'd been in worse conditions and it held up fine...wasn't even raining.

Oh nice. So if you are in the field and discover its got a dead battery you can still use it so long as your camera has power(or conversely, you can use it on a nondigital camera without killing what little battery it has).

Hmm, it looks like the MC-20 is about $110, and the MC-36 is only $20 more.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

If you want to use it on a non-digital camera it has to have a 10 pin mount, and (IIRC) not all cameras will be compatible with the power draining function.

It may be limited to dSLRs and the F6, but the battery it has isn't small, and the amount of juice it needs, is, so I don't see it running out as a real probelem, unless you are spending weeks away from civilization.

TK