Here's a new one: D2x shifts into Hi-Speed-Crop

JonyDirk · #1 03-22-2006, 10:00 AM

Here's a new one on me, maybe you too:

I was shooting yesterday, Elinchrom monolights with PocketWizard remote. My still-shooting tendency is to shoot fast, sometimes too fast in not allowing stobes to recycle. Comes from working often with HMI lights, which are always on, of course.

Anyway...suddenly without my noticing, my D2x goes into Hi-Speed-Crop mode. Now, I've never used Hi-Speed-Crop (My D2xs are all have their FUNC function button set to SPOT METERING - which is my meter's normal setting anyway; I don't want to use the FUNC button, so I've defaulted to nothing)...so dumbly, as I look at the LCD, I can't figure out why its cropping is different than in my viewfinder. I snap on, figuring that something's gone wrong with the LCD.

Well...when I download the image files, I notice that the NEF's suddenly change from 11-12 mb ro 6 mb. Dang!

Checked my settings, and, yup, Hi-Speed-Crop is OFF, and FUNC button is set to SPOT METERING.

Off to Nikon Repair...

This was just an alert to other D2x owners. Seems like a pretty rare malfunction, and maybe unique because I was forcing the camera electronics to do things they don't like...

Cheers,
John

Henry_Goh · #2 03-22-2006, 11:37 AM

sorry to hear of such a weird fault. Do let us know what story you get from Nikon service later.

Thanks for the alert.

DonVosburgh · #3 03-25-2006, 08:44 PM

You failed to mention how narrow you've set your meter. Spot? 2,4,mm? Take advantage of the function
button and take the worry out of Hi-Speed Crop. Takes two deliberate steps to make it work. Function
button plus a dial manipulation. Great feature, and it'll grow on you once you realize that short and mid-range zooms now cover the portrait and indoor sports range of things very well.

JonyDirk · #4 03-26-2006, 09:32 AM

Well...the reason that I set the FUNC button to spot was because I do not what to use it at all. And there is no setting for null or disable.

The problem that I had with the camera (now at Nikon repair) is that it went into hi-speed-crop on its own, with no command from me. That is a HUGE problem, as it changed the framing and also the size of my image file. Simply put, the camera's electronics weren't doing what they're supposed to do...so that is a malfunction.

Cheers,
John