parishard

I recently purchased a 'refurbished' Nikon D7200 camera body from Adorama. It arrived 3 days later. When it arrived, I opened the box, immediately put in the battery (it came 96% of a full charge), attached a kit 35mm lens and started shooting my front yard straight through an open garage door. Shot 16 photos within 60 seconds after arrival. I put the san disk into a bench computer and started looking at the results. Conclusions: delivery was quick, the camera body looked absolutely brand new, the 16 photos were were superior to those from my D300. When I checked actuation on 2 websites I got numbers of 16 and 20, as far as I could quickly detect everything was perfect. My questions are: does Nikon sell camera bodies as 'refurbished' when they are actually new? (perhaps to reduce inventory?), How do you explain the actuation number of 16 which is what I shot. If the camera was in fact used and had been refurbished, does Nikon reset the actuation number to zero?. My satisfaction: I couldn't be happier! Adorama was selling at a great price and it looks like I got a great product (despite the fact that I am not quite sure exactly what I purchased), In any case, this camera should last for 20 years at least.

Apaflo Loc: Anchorage, Alaska

With Nikon cameras you can find the shutter count in the Exif data with any good meta data viewer, such as Exiftool from Phil Harvey.

As for refurbed cameras, you never know what it might be! Refurbed by other than Nikon will almost never be zeroed. Refurbed by Nikon will very likely be zeroed, and of course positively so if they replaced the shutter on a used camera. But most "factory refurbished" cameras are returned items with relatively little use that are put through the standard final calibration routine and are zeroed.

The main point is that if the count is less that many thousands, it is a "new" shutter.

parishard

Great news. I figured as much, but was just guessing.