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| Posted: Sat Aug 23rd, 2025 17:29 |
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chrisbet
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Was hunting for an affordable D850 to fix up but even ones with top and front casings smashed were going for best part of £500! But I have just picked up a D810 for £200 - has had the lens mount snapped off but enough of the mirror box front face remains to get a replacement spring and mount correctly aligned. The camera has arrived so I just wait for the spares to turn up. I have black structural methylacrylate glue which will reconstruct the missing parts and secure the mount screws in their holes. If that doesn't work out then I can get a replacement box and have the fun of swapping it all over - full dismantle - I will try and avoid that if I can  Testing with a spare battery shows everything else is OK and it has a 73k shutter count.  Click here to comment on this image.
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| Posted: Sat Aug 23rd, 2025 17:32 |
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jk
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Hope you can get it back together and working well. Problem is the more pixels the more finicky the set up is. I still have my D810 as backup for my D850 as I got rid of my D600 when I got my Z9.
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| Posted: Sun Aug 24th, 2025 03:38 |
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novicius
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What happened,do you know ?
____________________ Back in Danmark I do not use my equipment to make photo`s .. I take photo`s to use my equipment The better I become at photography,the better my camera gets. |
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| Posted: Sun Aug 24th, 2025 08:48 |
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chrisbet
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No, I don't know what happened but the damage indicates that the lens was pulled off in an upward direction - the bottom mount screw hole is intact, the two either side are broken halfway down and the top two are completely missing. There is no damage to the outside of the camera so either it fell on the lens or something fell on it. Either way, all the electronics work and once I get the mount reattached I'll see if the lens communicates with the camera OK. Fortunately Nikon made the box with 8mm deep screw holes for a 6mm screw and the mount is another 1 - 2 mm, so the plan is to use 8mm M2 replacement screws which means, at least for the bottom screws they will screw into unbroken plastic for some of the length. The methylacrylate glue is 2 part and incredibly strong - I use it to glue broken plastic car bumpers back together!
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| Posted: Tue Aug 26th, 2025 11:34 |
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Eric
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chrisbet wrote:No, I don't know what happened but the damage indicates that the lens was pulled off in an upward direction - the bottom mount screw hole is intact, the two either side are broken halfway down and the top two are completely missing. It must have taken a heck of a whack. Or the D600 mount isn’t as robust. I was photographing a leisure centre some years ago. While waiting for the swimming pool to be cleared of people (to get still water) I went up 2 floors to the gym and was taking photos there, when I got the call…. “still water”. I raced down the stone stairwell with my D3 and 24-70 lens loosely wedged on my bag. Centrifugal force took over as I cornered at speed and the whole combo flew across the landing and smashed against the wall. Bits everywhere.  I scooped up the bits put them in the car and grabbed my back up kit only to find some fat git had ignored the request to stay out of water for 10mins and jumped in. Fortunately his ripples hadn’t reached the deep end so I later photoshopped out him and his tsunami. Took the mess to ACS on my way home and having miraculously saved all the bits, David was able to reassemble the lens while I waited. I actually felt it was a better lens after his rebuild! But the point was……the D3 mount was totally undamaged ( ok the body had a couple of chunks missing) …. the lens seemed to be the crumble zone.
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| Posted: Tue Aug 26th, 2025 12:11 |
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chrisbet
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The D810 box is plastic, unlike the D800 / 850 / D3 which are alloy
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| Posted: Tue Aug 26th, 2025 14:47 |
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Iain
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I have bashed and dropped my D3 and D4 and they never flickered and just kept on working. Having never had any dealings with a Z9 I don't know how it would compare in a similar situations.
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| Posted: Thu Aug 28th, 2025 01:39 |
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novicius
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I remember Eric`s hair raising D3 / 24-70 encounter with said staircase...remembered it vividly when my own D3S tumbled on the wooden kitchen floor with a 24-70 vr on it,luckily nothing happened ( the floor got dented )....I hope that you can fix it, as it sounds do-able.
____________________ Back in Danmark I do not use my equipment to make photo`s .. I take photo`s to use my equipment The better I become at photography,the better my camera gets. |
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| Posted: Thu Aug 28th, 2025 13:16 |
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chrisbet
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The mount turned up today and is temporarliy fixed for testing - camera working fine with G type lens but fEE with D types - issue on the aperture ring methinks .... But here is a pic taken with my one and only G lens  Click here to comment on this image.
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| Posted: Thu Aug 28th, 2025 14:37 |
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Eric
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chrisbet wrote:The mount turned up today and is temporarliy fixed for testing - camera working fine with G type lens but fEE with D types - issue on the aperture ring methinks .... That looks excellent. Well done. Definitely beyond my skill set. 
____________________ Eric |
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