For someone who branded himself, I'm not exactly the most social guy in the world. But lately I feel like I'm in virtual social overload with all the close communications with D800 users trying to figure out focus. I awoke this morning to another 320 emails, and I was up late last night trying to get to the lower half of my In Box (my apologies if I haven't gotten to you yet).
With all this input, I noticed something last week that I was pondering whether to write about when I got another series of emails in the last couple of days. What I noticed last week is that there seemed to be two different outcomes of D800 bodies that went in for repair: (1) the cameras came out with left to right sides in agreement, though almost always quite a bit on the + side of AF Fine Tune; or (2) the cameras came back still with side to side or other focus issues.
So while I'm pondering that, in come some additional emails with previously not seen information. The net of them is that "Nikon is researching [my D800 focus] problem." In at least two cases, it appears that images have been sent to Japan for analysis.
I actually take this as good news. Perhaps there was more than one issue, and one masked the other. Perhaps an assumption was incorrect. Perhaps there are parts variations that were unknown. The good news is that Nikon hasn't declared a victory and moved on. They seem intent to get to the bottom of the focus problems and solve them. I still believe they need to be more communicative, but I don't think I can fault them for actions behind the scenes.