Shutter speed decreased on my Nikon D90; continuous frame rate on high setting is now more like 0.5 fps as opposed to its 4.5 fps out of the box. Shutter also releases very slowly in normal shooting mode. Installed new card and empty, freshly formatted SD card, and made sure long exposure noise reduction was off. Ran out of ideas . . . any other fixes out there?
I have had my D90 for less than thirty days, ordered it from Dell website.
I suggest that you try a system reset for your camera and then complete the following adjustments to see if your camera will respond like it did originally.
Nikon D90 green reset dots. Press at the same time to reset.
Nikon has an easy reset feature. I use it every time I pick up a D90.
My standard operating setting is only a few clicks different from the reset defaults.
I reset everything every time I use my camera, much as a pilot uses a checklist before every flight to prevent any switches from being in the wrong position. When I don't check first, I often have left my D90 in some screwy mode, like 2,500K WB and ISO 3,200, from shooting in the dark the night before.
My checklist is therefore Reset, Program, Basic, Medium, and A3. Allow me to explain:
1.) Reset: Hold down the +/- and AF buttons (next to the green dots) for a few seconds, and the D90 comes out of whatever crazy mode it was in and returns to sanity. The top LCD blinks and everything is back to normal.
Reset leaves the detailed menu tweaks alone and resets only the big dumb things I might have changed overnight.
Once Reset, I change these next:
2.) Program: Spin the top left exposure mode dial to P, program auto exposure.
3.) Hold QUAL and spin the rear dial until you see BASIC, and spin the front dial until you see [M]. You'll always see these on the small top LCD, and if you first tap INFO, you can see it more clearly on the huge rear LCD. (Feel free to use other settings if you have a good reason.)
4.) Hold the WB button and spin the front dial three clicks to A3. This gives warmer (more orange) photos that I prefer.
Excerpt taken from: http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/d90/users-guide/index.htm
Good luck and happy shooting! I have a D80 and would love to get my hands on the new D90. Make sure you also buy a quality filter for your lens UV0. The quality of the lens is just as important as the body it's attached to.
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Hey!
I have the same problem as you and can't quiet seem to fix it. How did you get your problem fixed?
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I'm familiar with Ken Rockwell's site, it is a great resource for D90 users. The green reset dots aren't as extensive in terms of the shooting options that they reset as I would like them to be; I am familiar with that feature and use it regularly. Some of the settings I changed, such as the long exposure noise reduction feature I turned on, are not set back to their defaults through the reset function. I was hoping there was a "hard" reset that might solve my problem in case it was something else that I tweaked along the way.
Thanks for the great advice, everybody out there would do well to heed it. I took the day off today, so I am hoping Nikon support can help me out. I will update this thread with any solutions they provide.
After doing something pretty crazy - actually pulling out and RTFMing - I discovered another reset function that was more comprehensive than the two-button reset: Reset Custom Settings (p. 172 in the manual). All Customer Settings are returned to their default settings. What kind of retarded thing I did I'm not certain, but my shutter speed has been returned to normal. Woohoo!
Apparently nobody read my update before posting. I'll paste it here from above:
"After doing something pretty crazy - actually pulling out and RTFMing - I discovered another reset function that was more comprehensive than the two-button reset: Reset Custom Settings (p. 172 in the manual). All Customer Settings are returned to their default settings. What kind of retarded thing I did I'm not certain, but my shutter speed has been returned to normal. Woohoo!"
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