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[RalphBaker]

I bought a P1000 a little over a year ago. Recently, as in the last 3-4 months, if I don't turn it off after taking some pics it will freeze and I have to remove and then reinsert the battery to get it to work again. The power light will be on, not blinking as in sleep mode, but nothing happens when I press the shutter button or the power button, or when I try to zoom in or out, and the screen/view finder will be black. After I remove and reinsert the battery it works fine, until the next time I take a few shots and then don't turn it off right away. It happens most of the time, but not every time. Any ideas what could be causing it?

 

Thanks.

[Ellinor William]

The only thing I can think of is , are you using a fast enough memory card and original battery .

If your memory card isn’t fast enough then it can cause issues with video especially if shooting in 4 K .

The same if using an after market battery, it may not have enough current to run the camera while recording video. 
Hope this helps.

[boblite]

I bought a P1000 a little over a year ago. Recently, as in the last 3-4 months, if I don't turn it off after taking some pics it will freeze and I have to remove and then reinsert the battery to get it to work again. The power light will be on, not blinking as in sleep mode, but nothing happens when I press the shutter button or the power button, or when I try to zoom in or out, and the screen/view finder will be black. After I remove and reinsert the battery it works fine, until the next time I take a few shots and then don't turn it off right away. It happens most of the time, but not every time. Any ideas what could be causing it?

 

Thanks.

Five days ago received a new P1000 from Amazon... it takes lovely pictures but has frozen several times....  each time I had to remove the battery to get it working again.  Googling "Nikon P1000 freezing" yields numerous reports...   Someone said freezes sometimes caused by using the zoom lever on the top deck and said using the zoom control on the camera barrel avoids the problem.  

 

The camera is showing firmware Version 1.6.   Has there been any change to 1.6?  Might it help to reinstall 1.6 or has 1.6 remained exactly the same since first issue?

[Gartholameau]

I just bought my Nikon P1000 1 week ago and it has already locked up 4 times; the first time on the day I bought it.  I took it back to the Nikon dealer and they tested it and fortunately it locked up while they were testing.  I have been told by the store manager that Nikon does not want exchanges and once the customer purchases a camera they must deal with Nikon tech for repairs.  This strikes me as a rather unfair practice if the camera was faulty at the time of sale.  I left my camera with the store manager as he will deal with Nikon. Not a good introduction to Nikon.

[MARoma]

I'm adding on to this freezing issue with the... We received our P1000 on 1/4/2024. Since then our camera has randomly locked up 4 times. I've only taken pictures with the camera (no video). I haven't used the camera enough to discern a pattern that might trigger the freeze. As others have mentioned, removing and reinserting the battery reboots the camera to functioning. But this is not appropriate action for a brand new expensive camera.

 

Any insights or assistance would be greatly appreciated. Should this issue be immediately addressed with Nikon technical support?

Thanks.

[MARoma]

I'm adding on to this freezing issue with the... We received our P1000 on 1/4/2024. Since then our camera has randomly locked up 4 times. I've only taken pictures with the camera (no video). I haven't used the camera enough to discern a pattern that might trigger the freeze. As others have mentioned, removing and reinserting the battery reboots the camera to functioning. But this is not appropriate action for a brand new expensive camera.

Any insights or assistance would be greatly appreciated. Should this issue be immediately addressed with Nikon technical support?
Thanks.

Contacted Nikon tech support and they helped me figure out the the original battery shipped with the camera was faulty. I charged the extra battery I had purchased and loaded it into the camera. Have not experienced a freezing episode since.

[Diana steinmetz]

Same problems here, freezing and geting the error turn the camara on and off, which sometimes doesn't work and have to take fhe battery out. Happens a lot. Asked others with the same camara and they have the same problem. Its kind of frustrating. Even with full battery and new memory card.
I have been looking allmovee the internet and looks like this is a common problem.
Has anybody had any good solutions ?
It even bloks when just zooming and not making pictures just yet. 😢

[dragon49]

Same problems here, freezing and geting the error turn the camara on and off, which sometimes doesn't work and have to take fhe battery out. Happens a lot. Asked others with the same camara and they have the same problem. Its kind of frustrating. Even with full battery and new memory card.
I have been looking allmovee the internet and looks like this is a common problem.
Has anybody had any good solutions ?
It even bloks when just zooming and not making pictures just yet.

The P1000 is very sensitive to having the lens jostled, even the tiniest contact can bring up the error message to turn the camera on and then off.  I had this problem and was very frustrated when I first got my P1000.  Even doing things like bending down to tie a shoelace (while I use the camera with a neck strap) which often gently taps the lens against my leg brings up the error.  I've sometimes encountered the problem where I have to fully reinsert the battery, but most of the time, turning the camera off and then on fixes the problem.  

I was so frustrated at first that I considered returning the camera, but then I realized what was causing it.  Pay a lot of attention to your handling of the camera and you should be able to avoid the issue.

[Diana steinmetz]

Thanks for the reply, but its not working. Even by turning on the camara zoom a bit, ficus and then wanging to zoom a bit more it blocks.
Habdling it with care and not doing anything out of the normal, sometimes even after switching it on and touching the zoom just a bit it blocks.
Have to sitch it on, wait a couple of seconds, softly carefully zoom a bit and then it does zoom can take the picture, want to zoom abit more for the close up and boom again blocked. Send it to check and they said they where recieving various p1000 and even the p900 with the same problem and told me the motor cant hadle the extreme zoom. I live in costa rica and there is no official nikon repair available.
Has anybody else here having this problem with the zoom? And if yes what did you do?

The only thing I can think of is , are you using a fast enough memory card and original battery .
If your memory card isn’t fast enough then it can cause issues with video especially if shooting in 4 K .
The same if using an after market battery, it may not have enough current to run the camera while recording video.
Hope this helps.

The only thing I can think of is , are you using a fast enough memory card and original battery .
If your memory card isn’t fast enough then it can cause issues with video especially if shooting in 4 K .
The same if using an after market battery, it may not have enough current to run the camera while recording video.
Hope this helps.

Got a new fast card and charged the original battery and still blocking when trying to zoom...
Iam getting so frustrated...😪