I got the beautiful Nikon D800 about a year ago. I had no problems with it and LOVED it until one week before the 1 year warrantee was about to exipire. I had just finished shooting a graduation weekend with over 3000 pictures. The next day (after a fully charged battery) I went to another event. I had been shooting for about a half hour when I turned off the camera to swop out a lens, when I had put the lens back on & flipped the power switch, nothing happened. I fiddled with it for a while & tried everything I could think of. There was NO power what so ever in the body. I borrowed a friends camera to finish shooting the day. I called Nikon & had a chat with them for a while. They claimed that this was a new issue that no one else had reported and reccommended that I just charge the battery. When I got home, to my charger, it turned out that my battery was in fact fully charged. Still no power. I sent it off to Nikon just before my warrantee ran out. They had it for about a month. I got it back with no explanation as to what they did to it, but it was working again so I didn't complain. It has worked great ever since.
The only other issue I've had with it is it will stop importing occasionally for no reason. The green light will stay on indicating its doing something... its almost like it freezes up in mid inport. It isn't a big deal when I only have a few shots to inport... but when I'm dumping 300+ pics off & it taks about 30 attempts to get all of them, it gets old. Of course, the warrantee is long gone and Nikon won't fix anything for free on it.
So my quesion is, has anyone else had these issues with the D800? Or have you had your own collection of mishaps that you'd like to share just in case anyone else runs into the problems and would like to know that they aren't alone in their woes
Oh I should note that despite my issues, I am still a loyal nikonian, and still love my D800