This: I wrote on the Nikon FB page and suggested to them where to shove this camera with all the unnecessary, uneeded, unexplained conflicting, settings.
The D800 has WAY too many settings on the rear screen that often conflict with one another and with the buttons and dials, WITHOUT ever giving iny information about the conflicting settings.Then to get the camera properly functioning again, one has to factory reset it.
So I've had my D800 a few months and have had to factory reset it three times, the last time TO SIMPLY UNLOCK THE SHUTTER SPEED CONTROL!
I had to factory reset it because I could find no are NO instructions that work on my camera on the internet or in the manual to unlock the shutter speed. There is an instruction on Nikon.com that is totally bogus which says '"select control" and rotate dial' but it never illustrates or describes WTF "select control" is!?!
Other places I found said that one is supposed to press the fn button and rotate the front or back command dial to unlock the aperture or the shutter speed (so how come the Nikon page didn't say that?). But it doesn't unlock anything, if as I did, have reassigned the fn button, which disables the ability to unlock the shutter speed.
Nevermind how it got locked in the first place, because I have NO IDEA. I know it wasn't locked when I reassigned the fn button, which was the very first thing I did again after the second factory reset and before using the camera.
It seems to me to be a case of Nikon trying to please everyone's whims and whimsies with this camera to the point that it pleases no one.
Nothing illustrates my point above more than the fact that with this camera, one has the the ability to reassign virtually every hard dial and button on the camera via the rear display.
But there are too many settings available in the rear display WITHOUT an entire long menu for changing all the buttons and dials around so that one cannot then USE THE MANUAL to figure out how to, Oh IDK UNLOCK THE FRIGGING SHUTTER SPEED!
Mostg amazingly though, this camera doesn't have flash or a flash charged indicator IN ANY DISPLAY!?! AND THAT AIN"T ALL!
unlcke most iIkon film cameras from the 1980s on, popping a Nikon Speedlight flash on this D800 and turning it on in TTL or auto does not mean that the flash is going to flash when you take the next shot because this camera doesn't automatically switch to flash control when the flash is mounted and turned on!
Instead, the first time I tried to use the flash, it wouldn't work, and I had to monkey with buttons and dials for 15 minutes until I found the one that made the flash start flashing when i pressed the shutter button. And as I all ready said, even when the flash is working with this camera, tehre is no flash ready indicator designated by a lightning bolt icon in film camera displays, IN ANY DISPLAY ON THIS CAMERA!?!
As it turns out, and like many other things, you will not find this information in the manual or on the internet, but the camera has to be in a low manual ISO speed in order for the flash to operate! WTF?
There are more utterly frustrating BS with these digital nightmares that I've had to figure out but have forgotten all ready and undoubtedly will run into again with this POS camera taht takes beautiful pictures IF it feels like it or if it hasn't changed it's own settings on you, apparently.
In fact it took me a half an evening to be able to shoot anything at all with it. When I finally got it shooting pictures, after learning trhe controls and setting all the settings, it was great and I thought Finally, one click, one good shot in focus no muss no fuss, no need for bracketing anymore or shooting a ton of pictures to make sure I got one in focus.
Yeah right, that lasted about a day until the camera wouldn't shoot any pictures anymore and I couldn't find the conflicting controls and had to factory reset it the first time and start over.
After that, sometimes I could pick it up, shoot pictures I needed to shoot, taking only one shot each subject for awhile and then NOT! Sometimes it's easy peezy to get the shot the first time and then other times IN THE SAME CONDTIONS NEALRY IMPOSSIBLE because the flash doesn't work. or it deoesn't focus or the exposure is way low and I have to hunt down the frigging setting that all of a sudden, for some unknown reason, perhaps accidentally bumping ONE OR MORE OF THE 678,000 buttons or dials on the camera that caused the latest problem.
I went through the same crap shooting pictures in the dark with a flash. First the flash wouldn't work and then when I got the settingws so that it would work after a half hour, did the modelling light come on like it's supposed to? NO! the modelling light is set to come on in low light, But hafl the time it does and half the time it doesn't. usually it comes on when there is enough light that I don't need it, but when there is virtually no light, It doesn't come on at all!?!
And I bet everybody else using these cameras and leaving half assed reviews think they are just hunky dory fine, but I sure as hell don't.
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