My take on the D600 lubricant/dust issue

Daniel Lauring wrote:

As an engineer who's worked for many large companies, I can say, with some assuredness that Nikon has long since found the root cause. The issue is coming up with an economically viable solution. For example, let's say it is lubricant being splattered. You can't just remove necessary lubricant. So, do you use a different lubricant? A dry bearing...ie teflon? A shield? A completely different design? Right now there are engineers looking at all these solutions and managers trying to figure out the best course (ie...best bang for the buck.) One solution always is to ignore it (if too expensive to fix) and just avoid makiing the same mistake on the next design. If they do fix it in production they need to decide whether they can provide that same fix to service, or a cheaper kludge, or to ignore service all together. The more noise customers make, the better chance they will create a service solution.