View single post by Graham Whistler

Posted: Thu Apr 26th, 2012 19:00

Joined:	Sat Apr 14th, 2012
Location:	Fareham, United Kingdom
Posts:	1884
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I have just had an e-mail from my dealer in Fareham telling me of the problem with EN-EL15 batteries Batch Nos 9 digit is either E or F. I have 3 batteries for the D800 so checked at once and found I had on marked with E and had noticed that this battery overheated when recharging. It has now been taken out of service and my dealer advises me it will be replace by Nikon UK on my return from USA.

I had two days of serious exposure problems the last time I used that battery in the D800. I would set in S priority mode -0.03 to correct slight over exp next shot would then be even more overexposed and checking histogram I saw camera had given me +1.3 not -0.3 as set and so on. Set camera on M and got good result but with out changing any settings did another shot and shutter on it's own when from 1/125 sec to 1/250 sec then 3rd shot changed to 1/500 sec. This would be a nightmare if working on a serious studio shoot. In all my years of using Digital Nikons I have never seen this.

I read and re read instruction book and could see nothing I had done wrong all menu settings OK. SO I DID FACTORY RESTORE. Problem sorted at once D800 now working 100% results all good no more wild settings! I wonder if the faulty battery just altered some of the factory defaults?

I can see no sign of damage to camera so hope all is now well. Results are spot on and back to normal.

Just left Grand Canyon in rain turning into snow so first place I have been to so far no good pictures!

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Graham Whistler