A cross-check with another D800 and a second lens same type gave certainty. Obviously, the focus error at normal lenses occurs precisely not to days. Tentatively, I have a Nikon 14-24G placed - with the same result. Significant fehlfokus the left AF points.
So what to do? Living with the error or a warranty repair take? A search on the Amazon pages made me realize that Nikon cameras now no longer be sent primarily to the company Geissler in Reutlingen, but the same directly to the Nikon Service Point to Dresden. In so far as I was delighted when that the necessary tools for the balance of the D800 is only available on the NSP eh. A call to the NSP in Dresden confirmed this. So I sent my D800 well packaged for NSP to Dresden hoping this soon repaired to keep in his hands.
After just over a week it was time. And indeed, the left AF points functioned at 18 mm so as I had always imagined and can also be expected from the D800. But what was that ?! A test of the central cross-type sensor made a significant uncertainty to the fore. Also the right AF points were visible adjusted. I pulled on the 50s and repeated the test. The result was devastating - the camera was now compensated for incorrectly so that it was simply no longer to use the photograph.
A feedback when NSP in Dresden led to no insight there, on the contrary. It stiffened that the camera now lie within the specification and would it be because of my lenses. They asked me to send my lenses for Balance. A bad joke. Here, a simple comparison of phase AF and contrast AF could have shown already that the camera is compensated for incorrectly. Unfortunately, the NSP has probably not seen in Dresden necessary.
And the moral of the story ... better maid 'the NSP so not ?! If anything, I'd just give namely a D800 with this AF error, only for NSP in Dusseldorf for repair. There sit the old hands, and the opportunity is to meet at its greatest on skilled personnel.
Unfortunately, Amazon did not offer this possibility. A second demand was only the possibility of the camera again to send for repair to Dresden. Of this I have but apart - on the one hand for reasons of intransigence of the staff, on the other hand due to the sloppy return packaging, which a 3000-Euro-camera was unworthy and only through fortunate circumstances no transport damage was done.
Unfortunately, Amazon has the camera no longer in the program, so no replacement was offered. Exemplary I guess a the Amazon return service. Even though I am now stranded without a camera in nothingness. Thank NSP Dresden. It is time that the D810 comes on the market ...
The D800 even if I give 4 stars, the cursed AF problem would not, then they would get 5 stars. The NSP in Dresden, however, gets me smooth 0-star.
