On May 22, 2012 Nikon released a minor firmware update for the Nikon D700, which updates section A to 1.03. Meanwhile section B remains 1.02. I updated the firmware of my D700 in short order, since I had run into some of the issues that the update is said to have fixed.
All seemed to be well at first, but last Monday afternoon while shooting I noticed that the camera locked up and showed the low battery warning on the top LCD. That seemed rather odd to me, because the battery was showing 23% charge when I had checked it a few minutes earlier (I wanted to be sure I could finish a bracket set and I knew the charge was getting low). It wasn't overly cool out (16ºC/), so I figured it was a minor glitch. I pulled the battery out, and put it back in, and the camera reported 18% charge left. I switched batteries at that point, so I wouldn't have that problem again.
I shot all day on Saturday (with 8AA Eneloop rechargeable batteries, in the MB-D10) and had no problems at all. The rechargeable batteries got low towards the end of the day, but I hadn't recharged them for several weeks, so that didn't concern me (still doesn't). Yesterday afternoon I was taking some product shots and left the camera for the evening. I came back to the camera later in the evening to find it showing the low battery warning on the top LCD. This time I knew the battery was fine, it is a different battery than the one last week, and it was showing 66% charge after I reinserted it.
Before the 1.03 firmware update I never had this problem with the camera locking up with the low battery warning prematurely. This leads me to believe that the recently released firmware update could have a bug. If any other Nikon D700 users, who updated to the 1.03 firmware, have experienced this problem, when using genuine Nikon EN-EL3e batteries make sure you send a note to Nikon about the issue (and post a comment here). If it is just me, then I'll be taking my camera into the Nikon service centre to get checked out.
My D700 has a problem with AF-C with new firmware. AF-C is less responsive then on previous firmware.
ReplyDeleteI haven't noticed this issue, but I will keep an eye out for this. Have you checked your AF settings to see if anything has changed?
Deleteafter updating i see only 107 free pics, before it was 154 pics on the same empty 4gb cf card. has anyone the same issue?
ReplyDeleteI haven't seen any change in the number of images possible with any of my cards. Have you tried reformatting the card?
Deletea broken cf card was the problem. i tried another and everything was ok again.
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