When taking photos with the camera set at the

Sep 28, 2009

- What is your shutter speed setting?

Sep 28, 2009

- 1/30 should be plenty to take photos under outdoor lighting with your lens. I use the 80-200 on my D70 at football games and I normally use a shutter speed of 1/750. I set it up like you have, in shutter priority, and I use ISO of no more than 800. Can you look at the image data (if you use MS photo viewer you can right click the image and select properties.) This will show you the settings, and if you compare what you had setup when it was working to now, maybe you can see what's different.

I'd be concerned about the 1/30 being fast enough to freeze the motion, and would think you'd be seeing blur. You'd for certain have enough light to expose, though. This was shot at 1/750, f2.8.

Sep 28, 2009

- I also saw a problem posted here where they said their D300 would change settings to f0.0, go to single point focus, and other nonsense. They said photos turned out black. They changed from 51 point metering to 21 point metering and started working fine. I'm done for the day now, but I'll take a look at a few places I know tomorrow and see if maybe this is widespread.

It doesn't look quite like your symptoms, but who knows?

Sep 28, 2009

- Did checking the old photos tell you anything?

Sep 29, 2009

- The aperature adjustment is done via a lever that sticks out from the camera body to the lens, any chance that it's jammed, or that the aperature blades aren't opening in the lens?

You should be able to press the small button on the right of the lens (on the body) for Field of View Preview. If it gets all dark when you're set at f2.8, then something isn't right.

Oct 04, 2009

- Did you get this figured out?