Nikon D7000 manual Dealing with Errors

Chapter 1 ■ Nikon D7000: Thinking Outside of the Box 19

DEALING WITH ERRORS

After you’ve mounted your lens properly (or think you have), you might find various error codes appearing on the top-panel LCD, viewfinder, and back-panel color LCD. Here are the most common error codes, and what you should do next:

■FE E. This error code, with a smaller uppercase F followed by two Es indicates that you’ve mounted a lens that has an aperture ring, but haven’t set the lens to its small- est f/stop (usually f/22 or f/32). Nikon autofocus lenses with an aperture ring have a lock lever that allows you to set the minimum aperture and lock it there so that this problem doesn’t occur. However, you may have unlocked the aperture ring when you needed to set the aperture manually with the lens mounted on an older camera that didn’t allow setting the aperture electronically. Or, you might have mounted the lens on a non-autoaperture extension tube, bellows, or other accessory.

■E r r. Some other error has taken place. Release the shutter, turn off the camera, remove the lens, and remount it. Try another lens. If the message persists, then there is a problem unrelated to your lens, and your D7000 may need service.

Set the focus mode switch on the lens to AF or M-AF (autofocus). If the lens hood is bayoneted on the lens in the reversed position (which makes the lens/hood combina- tion more compact for transport), twist it off and remount with the “petals” (found on virtually all Nikon lens hoods) facing outward. (See Figure 1.6.) A lens hood protects the front of the lens from accidental bumps, and reduces flare caused by extraneous light arriving at the front element of the lens from outside the picture area.

Figure 1.6

A lens hood protects the lens from extra- neous light and accidental bumps.