{"id":328,"date":"2007-01-10T11:53:12","date_gmt":"2007-01-10T02:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2007-01-10\/328"},"modified":"2007-06-30T19:52:01","modified_gmt":"2007-06-30T10:52:01","slug":"missing-you-my-sweet-on-our-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2007-01-10\/328","title":{"rendered":"Missing You, My Sweet, on Our Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n

Or “The Sad Tale of my Nikon D200 and Nikkor 70<\/span>-200”<\/b><\/p>\n

\n\nIt is with a mix of fondness and sadness that I greet<\/span> today's one-year\nanniversary of having gotten my Nikon D200<\/a>. The sadness<\/span> is\nbecause it and all my lenses are in the shop again. )-:<\/b>\n\n<\/p>\n\n

The problems started when I got my new\n\nNikkor 70<\/span>-200<\/a> zoom and found that it had focus issues<\/a>.\n\nSo, I brought it<\/a> and\nall my kit to the Nikon Service Center in Osaka. (“kit” is\ngeeky-photographer speak for “photography equipment” —\ndoesn't it make me sound like such a pro<\/span>? :-)). They accepted the lens and\nthe body for repair, sending it back to me a week<\/span> later.\n\n<\/p>

\n\nUnfortunately, I got it<\/span> back in worse shape than when I brought<\/span> it in.\nBefore, I believe<\/span> that the body and my other lenses were properly\ncalibrated, and only the 70-200 was in need of adjustment, but at the\nservice center, they calibrated the body to match the wrongly-calibrated\nlens, so now those two worked together better (but still not great), but in\ndoing this my other properly-calibrated lenses no longer worked. Sigh. At\nleast, that's what seems to be the case.\n\n<\/p>\n\n

\n\nIt really astounds me that a company like Nikon can make a mistake<\/span> like\nthis (so much so that I hold<\/span> out plenty of space that I might<\/span> be wrong in\nmy assessment of the situation... time will tell.) Still, my first clue\nthat all was not right in Nikon land was at the service center when I\nexplained<\/span> the situation to the lady at the reception counter. She said \"you\ncan calibrate the body for one lens, but you can't expect the body to be\nperfect will all lenses.\" I had<\/span> in front of me a $2,000 semi-pro body, two\n$2,300 pro-level lenses, and an $800 lens, and at those prices, I damn<\/span>\nwell expected them to work perfectly<\/b>.\n\n<\/p>

\n\nAnyway, I trekked<\/span> back to Osaka last week, made sure to talk to a different<\/span>\nperson at reception, and had them take everything and said clearly that I\nwanted<\/span> them to all work properly, and suggested that the problem was with\nthe 70-200. They apologized profusely, and gave me a target<\/span> date of Jan 22\nto have them back to me. They beat the target date last time by a week,<\/span> so\nif that holds again, I should<\/span> get them back later this week....\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is with a mix of fondness and sadness that I greet today's one-year anniversary of having gotten my Nikon D200. The sadness is because it and all my lenses are in the shop again. )-:<\/b> <\/p>

The problems started when I got my new Nikkor 70-200 zoom and found that it had focus issues. So, I brought it and all my kit to the Nikon Service Center in Osaka. (\"kit\" is geeky-photographer speak for \"photography equipment\" -- doesn't it make me sound like such a pro? :-)). They accepted the lens and the body for repair, sending it [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}