Hi!

All the pictures taken with my brand new Nikon coolpix 800 camera, have two almost round opaque dirty spots, always in the same positions.

The external lens is perfectly clean. It seems to me that some internal lenses is dirty.

Does anyone experienced the same defect?

Thanks

Marcello

-- Marcy Rome (ufo_maroma@yahoo.com), March 27, 2000

Answers

My CoolPix 800 works flawlessly, so your's is probably a bad unit. You should return it and get a new one.

-- Gretar Ivarsson (gretar.ivarsson@or.is), March 28, 2000.

I've had my Coolpix 800 since Dec99 and I've never had a problem with a single image. It produces superb quality images everytime. Try printing to the new Epson 870 printer, the quality is astounding.

-- Graham Buss (graham.buss@dtn.ntl.com), April 20, 2000.

I have received a SECOND camera NIKON coolpix 800, sent me by mobshop.com, in subtitution of the defected one. And it is a second camera defected. Similar defects as in the first: some opacque spots all around the pictures. This time they appear only on the pictures taken with flash. (I have been using at work a Kodak camera for long time, without any of those problems. It seems to me incredible to find out those defects on a Nikon camera.)

I don't want to doubt about the NOMINAL quality of Nikon coolpix 800 cameras, but I doubt that either SOME (not so few since I tried two) of the produced cameras are NOT CORRESPONDENT TO NOMINAL QUALITY or (still worse) some internet reseller company is not completely fair. I am looking forward to receive a third coolpix 800, hoping to finally be able to enjoy the nominal coolpix 800 quality, I have heard about by so many users.

Bye bye

Marcy

-- Marcy Rome (ufo_maroma@yahoo.com), April 20, 2000.

There have been several entries in the forum about spots that appear in flash photographs with digicams... As I recall, most were produced by some dust in the air near the lens reflecting the flash directly back into the lens. Could that be possible, at least in the latter case? Or possibly in the first case, too? Dust in the air?

If not, it's a shame to get two lemons in a row. Looks bad for both Nikon & Mobshop...

-- Gerald M. Payne (gmp@francomm.com), April 20, 2000.