dave

I'm sure you're right, a good case of validation of theory by experiment, where the experiment proves that the theory was invalid :-) I based my answer on my 55mm Micro Nikkor AIS lens which ...

The 40mm micro lens focusses to 1 to 1, the working distance on the V1+FT1 to fill the frame with an object 36mm x 24mm will be 2.7x the marked minimum focussing distance of the lens. According to ...

Placed 9^th in the challenge.

No, I guess they haven't read the manual or if they have they didn't understand it. In normal mode (silent OFF) the mechanical shutter is used in single frame mode or in the first high speed mode ...

The V3 has a mechanical shutter max sync speed of1/250 and a max electronic sync speed of 1/60 , identical  to the V1. Of course the user can switch between mechanical and electronic shutter at ...

Nice one :-) :-) . Now if that was me, with my luck, I would have driven home and found the box was empty. :-( Dave

Depends on the lens, the problems with the recall on the 10-30 and the capping/iris fault on the 30-110 seem to be a mechanical problem with the gears that close the diaphragm/ capping shutter. A ...

You pretty well describe British Butterfly Conservations premier site at Alners Gorse. A row of elms with 6ft high brambles at the foot, and a row of smallish oaks on the other side of the track ...

yes that's correct the dropped one showed no lens error message and switching the VR off in the menu removed the problem the second one showed a lens error message beyond 250mm but no vibration or ...

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hang on a minute i'll get my engraving tool out and get mine up to 22,726 :-D

That is an excellent number, I wish we had that many. We've Buddleja and Seedems but I don't recall more  than 10. You're very lucky to get white letter hairstreaks we have to drive 40 miles for a ...

You obviously have trouble with comprehension I've said the same already OK make it 90 if you like Idiotic-people do not complain about non failure, but taking your order of magnitude you insisted ...

That's interesting Stefan , Allthough I only managed to find 9 incidences of failure on line and accept that there will obviously be more, It's quite likely that some of these failures will be the ...

Thanks for that info, it certainly makes the probable failure rate much lower than I estimated. As a matter of interest are the first 3 digits your  10 digit number 221? A number of people have ...

That is covered by a product recall where Nikon, free of charge, including postage both ways, will repair any lens new or second hand. This is still in place today. My daughter's failed when she ...

So the number who have had problems, would represent a minute fraction of  1% of the number of lenses made ? Dave

Some have called me a troll, fortunately I'm an old troll with a very long memory. This was covered in detail 6 years ago. The maximum weight that should be attached to the 1 series bodies is ...