seriously, it is not all that uncommon that when you send something to nikon that they dont find/fix what is needed. call them, send them pictures of what it is doing and them tell them... not ask them... for a free shipping label. with the pictures and by telling them in the rma info, they should be able to fix what is wrong with the lens. I hear of all too many people who have not diagnosed their issue and told nikon what to check out, that have sent their camera or lens or both and still have not gotten the problem fixed. it is almost as if they look to see if the camera is way out of focus and if not, then it must be ok, when in reality, they should be checking for critical focus. Some of us use our cameras for very critical focus and that was what it was made for, but some of the techs seem to think that we are all just a bunch of newbies or amateurs at best.

it would sound like the lens may have been dropped or just had a manufacturing defect to make it so far off. yes I would send the lens in. I had a D850 that was having issues with all lenses and so I sent it in, but had it been only one lens, then I would have sent in only the lens. just my opinion.

If you are on a PC, I suspect that you may have gone to Full Screen View... Press f11 and you will probably get it back!

just for kicks... try to fine tune the lens to the 750. I bet that it takes care of your issue!

all that you need to do is go to resellerratings.com and put in the exact name that they use and you will find how people have rated them. if they are not listed, then follow the other suggestions that have been listed.

Roberts has been my go too place for the last $25,000 worth of my equipment. Ed always takes care of me.

you will do what you think is best for her, but in my opinion, getting a used D3xxx or D5xxx would be a very light weight option only a small bit heavier than many P&S cameras. I gave my son a D70 to start with and moved to the D200 when he was a bit older. you could get a used D200 for that money and all of the rest of my suggestions are less than that! Add a 50mm or some other inexpensive lens and she would be good to go!

as was already stated... photography is all about the light.

I have and use a Drobo B800fs... a little larger than you are speaking of. My son told me it would be slow because it simply cant pass data as fast as an internal drive. That may be, but i decided to correct that by using a ssd to host my images on the computer and after they were processed, send them to the drobo. That works at about the same speed as did working from the Drobo... a tiny bit faster but hardly noticeable. I found the real issue to be Lightroom's unexcusable slowness. even with the recent upgrades to lightroom, I don't see much performance improvements. If I had it all to do over again, I would only change the SSD and just work from the Drobo. it does a stellar job.

Or... you are shooting a rodeo with a bull rider right out of the chute. You begin shooting when the gate opens and you stop when the action is over. later you pick the image that has some action in it. If you waited until you saw something to take the shot ... you would have missed it. Not everything is as simple as you speak. When i leave the office, if I were set up for 12 bit lossy and then encountered a need for 14 bit lossless... I would have to change it... quite possibly missing the shot... or I could leave the office set up for 14 bit lossless and get what I need and throw the rest away... we might call that being prepared or being a boy scout! just sayin...we cant all be lumped into one box, especially since storage is as inexpensive as it is.

the first thing was to have been focus fine tune the lens/camera... must have been late when I wrote that! sorry.

I use White House out of Minneapolis and when printed on aluminum and then have an acrylic sheet the image is outstanding.

Motorman, it looks to me that you might try two things... 1) focus fine to the camera 2) turn off the car and go vibration free... just my thoughts
Kelly

no pictures Motorman!

I have bought many thousands of $'s worth from them or their parent co. called Roberts Camera... they are my go to place.