All was well, shooting away when it wouldn't focus (BB). Shutter wouldn't trip either. Top screen appeared normal, manual mode. Turned the switch off. Top screen remained ON but no shutter, no focus. Turned switch back on, camera still not responsive as in dead as a door nail. Removed battery, top screen went blank, reinserted battery and all was normal. Continued to shoot. Today, same occurrence but in aperture mode, removed and reinserted the battery, all worked fine.

Your opinion, do I ask for a new camera or ask for a repair? As a maintenance engineer I despise random failures!

The female does all the feeding and she stays BUSY! Her bill must go all the way to the bottom of their stomachs.

The little fellow on the left never got fed on this trip. Maybe next time.

Spring time in the desert,

Yep, it does put out a LOT of light with several intensity settings. Now how to use it? Hand held or just lay it on the table for a background light.

Sabi Sands was absolutely the best photo trip I've taken. Long trip but was but well worth it.

Seems several folks have been to Africa judging by the pictures posted so here is my contribution from South Africa, Sabi Sands

She just strolled by the truck


Resting after eating all night


The working end of a lioness


2-3 month kitten


This is how an elephant scratches his nose


Big Papa


The day is over

I just got back last week from a 10 day photo safari with Gavin Slabbert who runs Images in Africa Safaris

Best trip I've ever had and I've been on a few. Good food, good quarters, friendly, tip top all the way. And he's originally from South Africa. Look him up at http://imagesinafricasafaris.com

To those who replied, yep, I've tried both ways and as some said, sometimes camera shake makes a mess and sometimes it really clears up the image. And as some others said it doesn't seem to make any difference. That's also what Nikon said when I asked them. So there you have it, do whatever fits your work flow.

In PS I've found the camera shake filter to be an excellent feature for hand held shots. I also use one of the sharpening filters and the question is, when using both, which should be used first?

Just learn how to use a 24 hour dial.

Thanks Bill, that's the way I did my 7100 and now the 7200. I guess fiddling around changing settings in the field I must have bumped the Quality setting and just didn't catch it had changed. It works just fine now. Whewwwww.

I set my storage to RAW for slot 1 and JPEG Fine in slot 2. Shot in the field all day, about 1,000 frames and then downloaded the RAW files. They were all JPEG. Checked slot 2, all JPEG's. Checked camera settings, nothing changed. In sum I tried every possible way I could think of but could not record RAW UNLESS I set the camera to record RAW only. Contacted Nikon, they said to send it in for repair. No software updates available, yet.
Anyone else had this problem with the Nikon D7200?