Problem with Nikon F5
This is the back of a Nikon F5, an analogue camera for professional photographers. I like to use it for its ruggedness but especially for its infallible light meter which is better than any in-camera meter before - and also after.
Though its build quality arguably is exceptional, it still can develop some problems. With mine, the four-way selector that is used to toggle the AF points suddenly stopped working.
The F5 has five AF points, arranged in the form of a cross. When the selector failed, the lowermost one happened to be selected. That would have been rather inconvenient, but I managed to get around that by pressing the green BKT and CSM buttons simultaneously for 5 seconds. This resets the camera, so that at lest the centre AF point is now selected.
However, I still can't select other AF points, so I suspect there is a problem with the electrical contacts inside the four way selector. I tried blowing pressurised air below the selector, but that did not make it work.
Does anyone else have an idea what one could do, short of disassembling the selector, cleaning the contacts and putting it all back together? I guess I could also try to get a functioning back door from an old F5 where something else has failed and put that on my camera body.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
I can also go on using the camera as it is now with just one functioning AF point, but if I can fix it, I will because I just happen to be one of these annoying people who don't like it when things don't work 100%.
Problem with Nikon F5
This is the back of a Nikon F5, an analogue camera for professional photographers. I like to use it for its ruggedness but especially for its infallible light meter which is better than any in-camera meter before - and also after.
Though its build quality arguably is exceptional, it still can develop some problems. With mine, the four-way selector that is used to toggle the AF points suddenly stopped working.
The F5 has five AF points, arranged in the form of a cross. When the selector failed, the lowermost one happened to be selected. That would have been rather inconvenient, but I managed to get around that by pressing the green BKT and CSM buttons simultaneously for 5 seconds. This resets the camera, so that at lest the centre AF point is now selected.
However, I still can't select other AF points, so I suspect there is a problem with the electrical contacts inside the four way selector. I tried blowing pressurised air below the selector, but that did not make it work.
Does anyone else have an idea what one could do, short of disassembling the selector, cleaning the contacts and putting it all back together? I guess I could also try to get a functioning back door from an old F5 where something else has failed and put that on my camera body.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
I can also go on using the camera as it is now with just one functioning AF point, but if I can fix it, I will because I just happen to be one of these annoying people who don't like it when things don't work 100%.