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Over the last few weeks I’ve had an occasional error message displayed on the top LCD of my D80. It’s been getting more and more frequent and it’s now reached the point where it’s there the whole time. The shutter fires but it doesn’t capture any images. It’s dead.

I’ll take it into a Nikon service centre as soon as I can but it probably means I’m out of action with respect to photography for the next few weeks.

When I first started getting this error I feared it was actually the shutter that was failing. In the D80 the shutter mechanism is rated for ~50K exposures, and I’m up around ~38K. The more I read about this error though the more I’m convinced it’s an electronics problem.