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| Issue: My metering mode button (To change from Matrix, Spotlight, Centre-Weighed, or Spot Metering) stopped working. | | | It could still be changed using a Tethering software, but didn’t want to have to lug a laptop to just change it. I could program buttons for doing individual modes, but there was no way to replace another button with that functionality. | | | Sometimes hitting it just right had it working correctly, but that didn’t work. | | | It had been sent in to Nikon for service, but they returned it with “No Fault Found” and they had cleaned it, replaced the grip rubber… which was a lie; the disassembly, clean, and then reassembly fixed the issue. This took about 8 weeks, and about $300 (as it was out of warranty). | | | That the issue returned pissed me off enough that was going to do the repair myself. I had found one person with some videos of opening it up, but had not been able to find anything (nor anything on this site…). | | | I didn’t think at the time to capture pictures, and don’t feel like opening up the camera again! If I need to do so in the future, I will definitely do so, or if I can get my hands on a broken D500. | | | Note: I have had to do these steps several times, as the connector has not stayed in the right spot for some reason. I have used some Polyimide Tape this time to try to prevent it from moving, as it has been well over a year since I last had to deal with it. | | | Additional note: after several years of doing my steps, the repeated service has stopped working, and I did a top assembly replacement, and in the time since, I have not had any issues with the button, so didn't know if it was the socket, ribbon end, or the button which failed finally and permanently. Luckily, the replacement part was not expensive from AliExpress. |
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