My wife bought me a new camera for my 60th birthday , so I'm selling my beautiful, perfect, like-new Nikon D3s.

The Nikon D3s is a Professional Sports Photography, News Photography, Event Photography, and all-around Action Photography monster, built to be Nikon's flagship. It was the absolute top-of-the-line, best, most expensive, and most highly sought-after Nikon Professional camera. List price $5,200. Super-fast shutter speed of 1/8,000 per second. Frame rate of 9 fps in FX and 11fps in DX. Also has VERY useful professional format 5:4 crop mode which results in less wasted file space and cropping later. If you've ever handled a true Nikon Pro body digital camera, you know that they are built like a tank. . . almost bomb-proof. The D3s is rated to 300,000+ actuations! Anyway, I'm sure you don't need me to tell you all the specifications of this awesome beast of a camera. It's reputation and admirers span far & wide. . .

This camera has only 19K actuations! Yes, you read right! It's barely broken in!
It has never been dropped, never been abused, and has always been perfectly babied and maintained. You'd really have to examine it with a magnifying glass to tell that it's ever been used at all. I've never had any problems or malfunctions, and never needed to send it in to Nikon for anything. The LCD display is crisp and perfectly clear. It fogged up one time when I walked out of an ice-cold hotel room into sweltering heat and massive humidity, but it cleared right up a couple hours later as I knew it would. It already has the very latest firmware revision installed, and it is totally ready for anything you might want to shoot with it. It is a legitimate USA model, and NOT a "grey-market" item. I am including everything you see in the pictures with the camera. D3s camera, original box, user's manual & accessories, Nikon dual battery charger, original EN-EL4a Nikon battery plus brand-new extra EN-EL4a generic battery, excellent Magic Lantern Guide to the Nikon D3s, and brand-new never-used Nikon D3s Neckstrap. You're gonna LOVE this camera!

Total price for everything was $1,200 + actual shipping. **PRICE DROP** $100 off. . . now $1,100. . . SOLD

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Very interesting replies

It was suggested to me recently that most photography could be easily replaced by a 4K video camera instead. Portrait, Landscape, Sports, even Macro. Just extract single frames from the video. True??

I have my doubts, but am very curious? (Serious answers only please. . . caustic sarcasm not needed)

Great shot Thomas902

Perfect model. . . perfect moment. . . great artistic photography. Publication-worthy for sure! Just a wonderful shot.

Thank you very much for sharing this and your thoughts on the lens in question

a6k,
Clearly you put a lot of thought & effort into this. I'm a little sorry to see the overall crabby, unsupportive response you got back out of it. Even if your revelations are not new, I can't see any reason for people to be unkind.

If a truth finally dawns on someone, and he turns to people he assumes to be his friendly, supportive peers to share it with. . . he shouldn't get shot down. If they already know of this truth, they could instead congratulate him for finally "getting it". They could also discuss this truth with him to enhance & add to his understanding of it.

A month or two ago, I was at a popular riverside walking/biking trail, photographing the scenery, animals, people, etc. when I saw some Latino children out in the middle of the shallow river having a blast. I snapped about a half-dozen shots before the father came up to me and asked WHY was I photographing his kids. I said it was because I thought they were nice, happy, summer-day shots. He let it go, but I could tell he was anxious. Later it occurred to me that he may have been concerned that I was trying to report them to Immigration

I was looking at a great fuzzy B&W picture the other day of some early 1930s children on a Manhattan side-street, playing, splashing, and dunking at a broken fire hydrant during a late summer heat-wave. Such moments are priceless. Anyone trying to stop free & open photography in public places, whether there are children present or not, should have their head examined. Nothing wrong with it. If you don't want people to see something, you shouldn't expose it in public

Ha ha

Wow. . . all these pages of responses and detailed advice, yet I did not see even one that seems correct considering the fact that she said:

". . . I used manual focus for the camera and the lens."

She (warzone) is manually mis-focusing.

Maybe poor eyesight or maybe you need to calibrate your camera's diopter
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/explora/photography/tips-and-solutions/calibrating-diopter-your-camera

You might also consider using autofocus instead of manual focus

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Now THAT'S a useful bit of information to keep in mind right there.

Thanks for the reminder imagemeister!

THIS^ +100

Best shot I've seen on here. . . very pretty girl, interesting pose, great facial expression, complementary lighting, sexy but not vulgar

rmalarz, I did that but didn't find anything I thought was really germane to the question. . .

However, your thoughts on the reason for the warning sound about right to me.

**If you don't know the D3s, or know for sure that you're giving accurate information, please don't just "shoot from the hip" - THANKS**

Can you explain this caution to me?? All of my lenses are full-frame D lenses, and I also have a TC-201 teleconverter for use with my Nikkor 80-200mm screw zoom.

My Nikon D3s User's Manual states on Page #99 under the topic of Manual Focus:
"AF Lenses
Do not select focus mode S or C.
Failure to observe this precaution could damage the camera."

see it here: https://cdn-10.nikon-cdn.com/pdf/manuals/kie88335f7869dfuejdl=-cww2/D3S_EN.pdf