Worried... d5200

[ThreeMagicBeans]

Got my new camera today, a Nikon d5200, very exciting. But I'm worried. After playing around with it for a bit, I was sitting in a quiet room and tilted it to one side. I heard a rattling noise, it sounds like a little bit of loose plastic rolling around in the base of the camera, when tilted left to right [or vice versa]. I tried looking it up on the Internet, but I can't seem to find what it may be. Besides the noise it is taking pictures fine, it was being a little glitchy this morning, but is fine now.

Anyways, is something I should be worried about? Or is it normal?

I'm just a little confused as to what it may be. Any ideas? Thanks!

 

[robbins.photo]

Got my new camera today, a Nikon d5200, very exciting. But I'm worried. After playing around with it for a bit, I was sitting in a quiet room and tilted it to one side. I heard a rattling noise, it sounds like a little bit of loose plastic rolling around in the base of the camera, when tilted left to right [or vice versa]. I tried looking it up on the Internet, but I can't seem to find what it may be. Besides the noise it is taking pictures fine, it was being a little glitchy this morning, but is fine now.

Anyways, is something I should be worried about? Or is it normal?

I'm just a little confused as to what it may be. Any ideas? Thanks!

Nope, that wouldn't be normal. I'd remove the lens and make sure nothing fell into the opening there, and if it isn't something obvious I'd take the camera back and have it replaced or repaired while it's still under warranty. In fact even if it is something that fell into the opening and you can remove it I'd probably still take the camera in to have it repaired or replaced.

 

[tirediron]

^^Agree^^. Chances are it's nothing serious, BUT, Santa paid for one in perfect condition and that's what you should get.

 

[Derrel]

Got my new camera today, a Nikon d5200, very exciting. But I'm worried. After playing around with it for a bit, I was sitting in a quiet room and tilted it to one side. I heard a rattling noise, it sounds like a little bit of loose plastic rolling around in the base of the camera, when tilted left to right [or vice versa]. I tried looking it up on the Internet, but I can't seem to find what it may be. Besides the noise it is taking pictures fine, it was being a little glitchy this morning, but is fine now.

Anyways, is something I should be worried about? Or is it normal?

I'm just a little confused as to what it may be. Any ideas? Thanks!

You might be hearing the diaphragm actuation mechanism in the lens...it DOES make a rattling kind of sound in Nikkor lenses. It's 100 percent normal for the lens to have a rattle-type sound. If you want to see, remove the lens, and shake it back and forth and see if you hear the sound emanating from the lens...there's a sort of free-swinging mechanism inside the read of the lens...it's free to move back and forth; Nikkor lenses have had this rattle for many years, and it does freak users out.

$10 says this sound is what you are hearing.

 

[robbins.photo]

Got my new camera today, a Nikon d5200, very exciting. But I'm worried. After playing around with it for a bit, I was sitting in a quiet room and tilted it to one side. I heard a rattling noise, it sounds like a little bit of loose plastic rolling around in the base of the camera, when tilted left to right [or vice versa]. I tried looking it up on the Internet, but I can't seem to find what it may be. Besides the noise it is taking pictures fine, it was being a little glitchy this morning, but is fine now.

Anyways, is something I should be worried about? Or is it normal?

I'm just a little confused as to what it may be. Any ideas? Thanks!

You might be hearing the diaphragm actuation mechanism in the lens...it DOES make a rattling kind of sound in Nikkor lenses. It's 100 percent normal for the lens to have a rattle-type sound. If you want to see, remove the lens, and shake it back and forth and see if you hear the sound emanating from the lens...there's a sort of free-swinging mechanism inside the read of the lens...it's free to move back and forth; Nikkor lenses have had this rattle for many years, and it does freak users out.

$10 says this sound is what you are hearing.

Oh Derrel please - if you actually had $10 you'd be spending it on more camera stuff.. rotfl

That is pretty interesting though, I don't recall having ever heard a rattle like that from either of my Nikkors, but then again my hearing really isn't what it used to be. I'll have to jot that one down though.. that's bizarre.. lol

 

[tirediron]

...$10 says this sound is what you are hearing.

Ya' think? To em that's always sounded more like a slight, metallic 'click' rather than a rolling plastic noise. Regardless I would suggest having it checked out by someone who can say for sure (and the minimum-wage sales droid at Best Buy is NOT that person).

 

[Derrel]

...$10 says this sound is what you are hearing.

Ya' think? To em that's always sounded more like a slight, metallic 'click' rather than a rolling plastic noise. Regardless I would suggest having it checked out by someone who can say for sure (and the minimum-wage sales droid at Best Buy is NOT that person).

Well, the sound differs a bit, depending on the lens itself: the VR-Nikkor zooms rattle a LOT more. Older, metal-barrel Ai-S lenses have a very "metallic" rattle; the newer, polycabonate barreled zooms rattle with a different sound. I just picked up my D2x and 80-400 VR and shook it; the VR mechanism rattles like a SOB in that lens...always has, for a decade.

I do not have an 18-55, but if the user has an 18-55 VR...it might sound a bit plastick-y. Again...take the lens off and shake it...

 

[ThreeMagicBeans]

Thanks for all the replies.. That's what I thought, I guess I'll have to get it exchanged/repaired.

As soon as I heard the sound earlier I removed the lens, thinking it may be something inside, then I tilted the lens back and forth. It wasn't the lens. I even checked if it was the neck strap tapping the sides. It wasn't.

Oh well. Thanks again! Happy Holidays!

 

[KmH]

I think you are hearing the camera orientation sensor that tells if the camera is being held in the portrait or landscape image frame orientation.

 

[FrankRoberts]

Agree with KmH, the usual explanation is the the orientation sensor. Interestingly, I don't hear it in my D5200 but do in my D800. I'd shake any replacement camera first before switching out, if that is still your plan.

 

[DanielLewis76]

i have just tested my 5200 and it does have a slight rattle BUT only very slight, you really have to listen for it. Does sound more like a flappy thing that a moving around thing.