How to tell when your camera shutter is kaput
Nov 17, 2022 18:01:37 #
My d800 nikon is >10 years old. The shutter has almost 180000 actuations.
There was no warning but all of a sudden the shutter does not seem to work.
When I release my shutter the time it takes to release seems to be directly correlated to the shutter speed I set. All images are completely underexposed. No partial image or light at all.
Are these the signs my shutter is gone or could it be something else.
What can I do to check.
I will take it to my camera store but any background info or suggestions might help.
Thanks
i was surprised that there was no warning this was coming and it is possible I accidentally did something to jam my shutter but am not sure.
There was no warning but all of a sudden the shutter does not seem to work.
When I release my shutter the time it takes to release seems to be directly correlated to the shutter speed I set. All images are completely underexposed. No partial image or light at all.
Are these the signs my shutter is gone or could it be something else.
What can I do to check.
I will take it to my camera store but any background info or suggestions might help.
Thanks
i was surprised that there was no warning this was coming and it is possible I accidentally did something to jam my shutter but am not sure.
Nov 17, 2022 18:26:32 #
billnikon
Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont
Call the experts on your camera at 1-800-645-6687. Nikon direct.
Nov 17, 2022 18:47:11 #
linda lagace wrote:
My d800 nikon is >10 years old. The shutter has... (show quote)
You are getting the warning. Your shutter is failing (has failed). When it stops clicking, you will know it's gone. But it sounds like it isn't getting you good pictures now.
You can have it replaced, or you can get a new camera.
If you get a mirrorless, you can shoot with electronic shutter in many cases and preserve the life of the shutter.
Nov 17, 2022 19:21:17 #
Check to make sure you didn't accidently 'adjust' the Exposure Compensation Dial.
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Nov 17, 2022 19:28:56 #
Nov 17, 2022 19:56:25 #
jcboy3 wrote:
You are getting the warning. Your shutter is failing (has failed). When it stops clicking, you will know it's gone. But it sounds like it isn't getting you good pictures now.
You can have it replaced, or you can get a new camera.
If you get a mirrorless, you can shoot with electronic shutter in many cases and preserve the life of the shutter.
You can have it replaced, or you can get a new camera.
If you get a mirrorless, you can shoot with electronic shutter in many cases and preserve the life of the shutter.
Not warning it's dead. It doesn't take pictures any more.
Nov 17, 2022 20:43:40 #
bikinkawboy
Loc: north central Missouri
Just for the heck of it, you might reformat the camera (the actual camera, not the card). That will reset everything to the factory defaults. That should undo anything that was done unintentionally. If it helps, great and if not and you lose all your personalized settings, so what? You might swap memory cards as well. Probably not the problem, but if so and you send it in to be fixed you will feel like a fool when they tell you it was a bad card.
Nov 17, 2022 21:01:19 #
Nov 18, 2022 00:19:30 #
Thank you all. All good suggestions. I tried new cards, reformating camera, live view and not live view, and exposure comp dial. Its funny because it still makes a clicking noise but when I look through the lens or the camera and hit the shutter I do not see any flickering light as suggested by the internet as a way to unstick a stuck shutter. I will try the nikon people and then the camera store (where I will also look at the sony mirrorless and 200-600 sony lens which i was thinking of buying next year) Next year may have moved up to now.
Nov 18, 2022 05:21:19 #
cmc4214
Loc: S.W. Pennsylvania
linda lagace wrote:
Thank you all. All good suggestions. I tried new c... (show quote)
Sounds possibly like a stuck mirror...
Nov 18, 2022 06:10:34 #
Nov 18, 2022 06:51:28 #
linda lagace wrote:
My d800 nikon is >10 years old. The shutter has... (show quote)
I believe that there are no check shutter warning lights on cameras.
The warning is when it fails it fails.
Nov 18, 2022 07:08:07 #
It's kind of strange though. I have many old film cameras and of course their shutter do fail but generally they would get very inaccurate before failing completely.
Nov 18, 2022 08:01:27 #
Nov 18, 2022 08:24:57 #
fetzler
Loc: North West PA
linda lagace wrote:
My d800 nikon is >10 years old. The shutter has... (show quote)
Modern electronics generally fail catastrophically. No warning just suddenly stops working.
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