Have to send in my D5000

My lovely D5000 is in the group Nikon wants to recall because the on-off
mechanism may fail early.
That is not why I am sending it in: out of the box the camera cannot
auto-focus correctly. That is a far worse quality control problem on the
part of Nikon than a sub-quality minor electrical switch.
I have tried 4 different lenses, with and without tripod, with and without
VR, and all yield images that are unacceptably soft, both with in-camera
jpeg processing and particularly raw. RAW images cannot be made acceptably
sharp with insane amounts of sharpening in Photoshop.
I went through a couple of Nikon 55-200s (granted that lens is junk anyway)
before getting a refund but I have never had a new Nikon SLR be a dud out of
the box before.
Sadly, because this was a gift from far away I cannot return the camera but
have to suffer Nikon warranty repairs.

"knotnau" wrote in message
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My lovely D5000 is in the group Nikon wants to recall because the on-off
mechanism may fail early.

There is nor product recall on the D5000, it is a service advisory...

If the camera cannot auto-focus correctly, I suppose that another plane in
your image than the one you tried to focus on is sharp.
If there is nothing sharp in your images, something else is going wrong than
the auto-focus. How about manually focussed images? I suppose that they
aren't sharp either.

"knotnau" schreef in bericht
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My lovely D5000 is in the group Nikon wants to recall because the on-off
mechanism may fail early.
That is not why I am sending it in: out of the box the camera cannot
auto-focus correctly. That is a far worse quality control problem on the
part of Nikon than a sub-quality minor electrical switch.
I have tried 4 different lenses, with and without tripod, with and without
VR, and all yield images that are unacceptably soft, both with in-camera
jpeg processing and particularly raw. RAW images cannot be made acceptably
sharp with insane amounts of sharpening in Photoshop.
I went through a couple of Nikon 55-200s (granted that lens is junk
anyway) before getting a refund but I have never had a new Nikon SLR be a
dud out of the box before.
Sadly, because this was a gift from far away I cannot return the camera
but have to suffer Nikon warranty repairs.