I was in the middle of a very important shoot and my camera broke. Here's what happened. I saw something seeing I said the Indianapolis Motor Soudaway for an IndyCar test. I had my D610 on my 300 2.8 I had my 750 on my 70 to 200. At 8 a.m. There's a photo shoot on Pit lane with the cars and the drivers and my bodies and lenses all work fine. I took a ton of shots. There was no issues at all. There was a little bit of a break after that. Then at 9 a.m. the cars hit the track and that's my issue. So the cars will leave their pit and then drive down Pit lane and that's where I was at the very end of Pit lane. Where I was the car exits Pit lane itself and then drives up onto the track. I was quite a distance away so I whipped out my 300 2.8 which was on my D610. I took one shot and somebody didn't sound right. Whenever you take thousands and thousands of pictures with cameras you realize some stuff doesn't sound right and this one did not sound right at all. The car was coming at me pretty quick so I didn't have time to look into the issue then so I just put that camera down whipped out my other one my D750 with my 7800 and I took some shots then. I waited until he was exit onto the track and around where he wasn't in my view anymore. I couldn't take any pictures. That's when I looked into the issue. I went ahead and shimmed and looked at the picture on the screen and I'll show it here. As you can see it's like 98% all black. There's a little bit of picture that process at the very top but other than that it's all black. Obviously not usual. Obviously something went wrong. I went ahead and tried to take another picture and again it didn't sound right. You could tell there was some mechanisms and they're working. Others obviously weren't because a picture was not being processed. At this point you just have to take the camera and set it aside for a couple reasons. One that don't have the tools to work on it. As you know inside of the camera can be super super precise and has to be super clean. You can't just get in there with your fingers with your oils and your fingers and start screwing around with stuff. That's not the answer at all. And then number two the test was still going on. Just because I had an issue with one of my cameras that means they're going to stop the test. So I saw it a job to do. I had to keep taking pictures. Luckily I had a few other bodies to use and I got my job done. Fast forward a few hours. The test is over. I have all my gear packed up. At this point all I can think about is my broken camera. I have about 125,000 or so picture shutters on the D610. So I thought there was a fairly good chance that the shutter had broken. It's rated to about 150,000 but that doesn't mean they will get there. They can fail at any point. 100,000, 125. They can fail at 200,000. You just never know. Finally I get home, put up all my equipment, get out my D610. And the first thing I do is go with the tool set and start looking at the camera to see what the issue is. So I take off the front cap of the camera and I hit the shutter and I see that the aperture lever moves up and down, which is a good sign. The mirror just isn't left thing. I've had an issue in the past where the mirror gets stuck. So I got out a little screwdriver, lifted it up and saw, hit it again, hit the shutter again and saw that the shutter was working. So the shutter didn't fail. It looked fine. The shutter wasn't the problem. The mirror was just stuck. It hasn't happened to be in a long time when my mirrors have stuck in the past. And I knew it was a fairly easy and very fixable problem. So here's how I did it. Okay, so here's my D610, the body that I was having issues with. And the problem was whenever I would hit the shutter button up here, the aperture lever would move up and down just like it's supposed to whenever you hit the shutter. Just like that. The problem was the mirror wasn't moving. So whenever the mirror doesn't move, it doesn't allow the photo, the picture, the scene that you're taking to be able to get to the sensor. That's obviously a problem. You can't take pictures that way. What was happening was the mirror for some reason on this side of the camera. So as we're looking at it to the right, it was getting stuck up up on that side there. And this has happened me a couple times. So it's a fairly easy fix. All you have to do is be extremely careful with this is you can use anything that won't leave debris. Like here, I'm using just a really small screwdriver. And I try not to actually touch the mirror itself. Just touch the side wall in there and just kind of push it away, push it to the side. And if you can with a small screwdriver like this, actually get it in between the mirror and the wall and kind of pry just a little bit, not very much. Just enough to move it out like so. And then when you do that, try hitting the shutter again and it moves up and down like so. Try it yourself. And if it works, then you should be good to go. If not, you can try prying a little bit more. If it gets too hard, then I would think, think about sending it in because the last thing you want to do is break the mirror or do worse damage than that. So just to show you up underneath of the mirror here by carefully lifting up. Back there is the shutter and then beyond that is the sensor that is going to be reading the picture. The picture that you're trying to make, you're trying to develop. Well that's about it. I hope you got a little something on it. If you have any questions you can comment below or you can message me. As always be sure to subscribe and thanks for watching.