Are you using the correct Ilford Gallerie Glossy paper profile for your 9000 II?
It's called Nikonitis Acumulitis, and the only known symptomatic anti-dote is money.
There is only one lens that seems to remain on my camera (Nikon DX DSLR) on a cruise - Nikkor 35mm f1.8 G prime. On board ship, you won't need anything else, and on shore, you will want to be discrete. Been there, done that, got the t-shirt.
Leica M9 P & Leica APO-Summicron-M 50mm f/2 ASPH & Leica Elmarit-M 21mm f/2.8 ASPH
Everything else is just an electrical appliance.
There goes your carry-on baggage limit.....
The 18-55 f3.5-5.6 is only sharp across the frame when used at f8 (but then it's very sharp!) This could be too restrictive, especially if used at the 18mm end. The Sigma 150-500 and cannot be hand held at anything over 300mm and is too big and heavy to be a "carry anywhere" lens. Just my 2c worth.
Rexene, the longest focal length that you would be able to hand-hold on the Nikon D7K, with image stabilization (VR) is around 300mm, which is an effective 450mm. Even then, I prefer to use a tripod. If this suits your needs for wildlife I suggest that you look for an AFS Nikkor 70-300 f4.5-5.6G VR either used or new. It will also be useful for landscapes from 70mm to around the 150mm mark. http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/70-300-vr.htm
http://www.cameralabs.com/reviews/Nikkor_70-300mm_VR/
For you landscape requirements, I suggest the AFS Nikkor 16-85 f3.5-5.6 G ED VR.
http://www.cameralabs.com/reviews/Nikkor_DX_16-85mm_VR/
These two lenses combined will give you a complete range of focal lengths from 16mm to 300mm (28mm to 450mm in real terms) with superb image quality, light weight and at affordable cost.
You could go for an AFS 18-300mm f3.5-5.6G VR ED for a more compact, lightweight all-in-one lens, but there would be image quality compromises, never mind ken Rockwell's opinion. http://kenrockwell.com/nikon/18-300mm.htm
I have these two lenses plus a 50mm and a 35mm prime as my D7k "holiday" outfit and I have never needed more.
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If I had a dollar or a pound for every one of these threads I've read, I'd be retired and living in a mansion in the Caribbean.
A small number of any manufactured product will have defects - to guarantee 100% defect free products would push product prices to a point where nothing would sell. So manufacturers compromise by implementing quality control processes to enable economic manufacture with an acceptable defect rate.
Digital camera resolution is now at the point where focus is critical to guarantee sharp images. Autofocus depends on the camera and the lens both being within sufficiently close tolerance for everything to work. If that tolerance cant be met, soft images will result and adjustments are needed to correct it. That's why AF fine tune was invented. Sometimes it isn't able to correct the issue and a proper calibration is needed. That doesn't make it a certainty that the camera is faulty, only that one particular camera body doesn't work with one particular lens.
Sensors get dirty, period. Interchangeable lenses, and lenses which push and pull air during focusing or zooming will allow dirt, dust and oil onto your sensor. The upshot of it is that sensors need periodic cleaning. Live with it.
There's a suggestion that a small number of Nikons have had issues with oil on the sensor originating from the shutter mechanism. As far as I am aware, Nikon hasn't officially acknowledged the issue, but from what I've gathered any bodies returned to them with the issue have been fixed under warranty.
I've been using Nikons for years and am now on my fourth and fifth digital bodies. I've had no issues at all with any of them.
If I had a dollar or a pound for every one of thes... (
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I couldn't agree more!! I have a Canon 7d plus a set of L lenses, and a Nikon D7K with a set of lenses. I use them for different purposes. Recently the Nikon D7K was returned to Nikon UK because of "autofocus issues". It has just been returned to me and now works as it should. Thank you, Nikon UK.
Many people don't seem to remember that Nikon lost a major factory facility and a huge chunk of their production capacity when the tsunami hit Japan last year. The lost production capacity, expertise and materials had to be replaced with newly established facilities and freshly trained staff elsewhere, mainly Thailand and China. Not long after, Thailand suffered extensive flooding and production was again severely affected. Yet Nikon somehow kept up with the world markets with only a slight delay in supplies of some models. It was only to be expected that QC would suffer until production was once again "in the groove". I think that they deserve a medal.