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| Posted: Wed Nov 7th, 2018 03:07 |
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Eric
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Not sure how many people on the forum have got a d500, so perhaps need to address this question on another forum. But just in case anyone has experience or heard about this..... Today I set off to do some bird photography. The 300mm with the 1.4x Tc attached. It had been working fine a few days earlier and the lens had remained on the camera. First problem the AF On button on the back was no longer focusing. It had switched back to the shutter button. Had to go into the menu to reassign it, Second problem....took a shot of the Shrike and it was virtually black. The auto ISO had switched itself off! Had to reset it. Started to examine camera and high iso noise reduction was on HIGH! I have that OFF by default. Back home I went to download files and there were no files on the XQD card.....they were on the SD card. The preference setting had changed from the XQD slot to the SD slot....although the overflow setting still remained. I haven't yet been through the whole camera setting but having four setting change inexplicably got me a bit spooked. I could have almost believed someone had sneaked in the house and swopped cameras. It was really bizarre. My first thought was has the Memory Bank setting changed. No ...it was still on B for birds. I scanned through banks A,C,D and none of them had any of these settings as default. So on the face of it the camera hadn't decided to use another Bank. Firmware is up to date. Everything else working ok. I guess I will do a 2 button reset and then set the whole thing up a again ...but wondered if anyone else had come across random and limited changes to settings. PS The wife swears it wasn't her. 
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| Posted: Wed Nov 7th, 2018 03:58 |
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jk
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Sounds like you have had the camera do a reset. I have experienced this before on other cameras. I put it down to the fact that I have changed lenses with the camera switched on. It does seem like somebody has changed it but I think if you examine the code for firmware there may be indicators.
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| Posted: Wed Nov 7th, 2018 05:08 |
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Eric
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jk wrote:Sounds like you have had the camera do a reset. I have experienced this before on other cameras. I put it down to the fact that I have changed lenses with the camera switched on. Hmm...I am a bit of a b@gger at swopping lenses with it switched on. But can't recall doing it since the last time I used it. Think I will do a 2 button reset and set it up again.
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| Posted: Wed Nov 7th, 2018 05:11 |
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jk
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Use the option - Save Settings as this saves it to the XQD or SD. So you can restore in these cases.
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| Posted: Wed Nov 7th, 2018 10:22 |
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Eric
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jk wrote:Use the option - Save Settings as this saves it to the XQD or SD. So you can restore in these cases. The problem is that if there are other erroneous settings, it will save them as well...so back to square one. I've actually gone through it all again. We will see if I have a repeat. It's quite cathartic starting again. Ive removed several items on My Menu that I thought I would use, but haven't....making room for options I have been hunting through menus periodically. It's quite an exercise trying to decide what options go on shooting memory banks and custom memory banks and what can be a shortcut on My menu.
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| Posted: Wed Nov 7th, 2018 13:39 |
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GeoffR
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May I suggest that you consider a copy of Camera Control Pro 2? This allows you to make changes using your computer and, where appropriate the full size keyboard. Once satisfied you can save the settings to the computer ready to restore them to the camera if necessary, better than having the settings file on a memory card. Unfortunately Camera Control Pro 2 isn't cheap.
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| Posted: Wed Nov 7th, 2018 15:30 |
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Eric
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GeoffR wrote:May I suggest that you consider a copy of Camera Control Pro 2? This allows you to make changes using your computer and, where appropriate the full size keyboard. Once satisfied you can save the settings to the computer ready to restore them to the camera if necessary, better than having the settings file on a memory card. Unfortunately Camera Control Pro 2 isn't cheap. Thanks for the suggestion. Not really bothered with backing up settings, either way. They only take a few minutes to redo the settings I commonly use. What's more desirous is a camera that doesn't misbehave in the first place. If this one does it a second time, it will be down the road.
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| Posted: Wed Nov 7th, 2018 15:39 |
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GeoffR
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Eric wrote: GeoffR wrote:I set the copyright information on mine and that takes ages using the camera monitor. Did you check the date and time? It could be the clock battery though I don't recall having to restore all my setting when I changed the clock battery on a D2.
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| Posted: Wed Nov 7th, 2018 16:20 |
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Eric
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GeoffR wrote:Eric wrote:GeoffR wrote:I set the copyright information on mine and that takes ages using the camera monitor. Clock ok.
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| Posted: Thu Nov 8th, 2018 04:39 |
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GeoffR
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Its not that then
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