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Nikonfan99
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Re: They had one camera....
In reply to AllOtherNamesTaken, 6 months ago

AllOtherNamesTaken wrote:

Amadou Diallo wrote:

AllOtherNamesTaken wrote:

I wouldn't read too much into the dust thing, they only had a single camera according to what they said in their review. They likely just were unlucky, or got some dust just like everyone else.

One of the reasons we were curious to find out if our unit exhibited the issue was that sensor dust/oil/debris has been widely reported by nearly every other reviewer who has handled the camera. At this point, I wouldn't quickly rule it out as an isolated instance.

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Amadou Diallo
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I agree completely, there may be a small number of affected cameras, but at the same time I wouldn't come to the conclusion that it is a wide spread issue. There are MANY people reporting zero issues, and of course most people don't report at all. I know of at least 5 D600's locally that do not have the issue, 6 including my own, and a large local camera store has told me they have not had a single return or complaint regarding dust/oil (they have sold hundreds if not thousands of D600's). Maybe it was one small batch or something.

I think that dpreview did the right thing by testing this issue as part of the review. I am also in total agreement that this issue is not impacting all users equally. I still stand behind my statement that most people would not have an issue unless they go looking for it. The normal process is to place test units out in the field and I would certainly think that nikon would have known about this issue during field testing unless the people doing the test did not have access to these reports of dust and never went looking for it which brings me back to my intial point. I am not saying no one has an issue but some cases may be enchanced because of web reports. I am very reluctant to have faith in a solid solution from nikon for the people that are impacted by this issue.

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