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I think that's true. However, our house is a 100 yards from the dirt mountain road on which we live. The UPS van drives it daily but at widely varying times. How how hard it is for Nikon to let me tell the guy to stop by and pick it up?
The way I read it, you decided to live out in the sticks. Nikon didn't make you do that!
I used to live in the country as well and shipping was a pain, sometimes I could hear the truck when it was coming down the road (my dogs certainly could). Maybe you can put up a banner over your road asking UPS to stop by
Seriously though, you can request a pickup from UPS, yes, it's a fee but maybe worth it so you don't have to drive into town.
You might be able to have UPS pick up the camera.
i wonder if you can schedule it with this: https://wwwapps.ups.com/pickup/schedule?loc=en_US (assuming US, although they probably have something similar for other places)
This is why I'm waiting to get mine done. All lenses mount perfectly fine, and the recall mod never expires. I'll let the initial wave subside and send it in this fall / winter. It's a little scary for me to drop a $4k brand new body to UPS too. And Nikon explicitly said to not send in the original box, basically just wrap it...
I think the initial wave will expire in less than a monthThis is why I'm waiting to get mine done. All lenses mount perfectly fine, and the recall mod never expires. I'll let the initial wave subside and send it in this fall / winter. It's a little scary for me to drop a $4k brand new body to UPS too. And Nikon explicitly said to not send in the original box, basically just wrap it...
At least Nikon has don a recall on what seems to be a very minor problem.
good idea except if a new lens you buy in 2 years does not work, what then?At least Nikon has don a recall on what seems to be a very minor problem.
Other makes ignore major problems with any recall.
I'm going through all my lenses and I cant see any problem (Although I only have x14 Z lenses) ...
I'll probably send my Z8 in when the panic dies down.
New lenses?
Thank you for sharing Michael, it is for this reason I decided to send mine in last week, but I forgot about the holiday weekend and was hoping to get it back before July 7th for an event; however, in lieu of the holiday delays I doubt that will happen :( But I'm glad to have it fixed and know something like this would not happen in the field.
I cannot mount the lens that was working earlier today and cannot mount FTZ II adapter. ie nothing now. I believe the recall fault is with the bayonet locking mechanism. It is presumably stuck in the closed position and is not opened by the lens release button. (This is my speculation)
I suspect you're correct. If it were just a working / not working condition, people would have been camping about it and we likely would have heard about it before the recall. I was thinking it's probably something that works till it doesn't and based on your experience, that seems to track.
Gotcha....Thanks for clarifying..I think you may be correct about the fault.
