You meant 4 AA's?
My Nikon F100 Is Dead!
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You meant 4 AA's?
The standard F100 AA battery holder has a simple latch that holds it into the camera. At the latch end of the battery holder there is a thin rubbery lip seal around the entire perimeter. This seal helps to keep dirt and grime from entering the battery compartment.
Unfortunately, this seal material can degrade over time, and can come off entirely, or in spots. If that seal is in poor shape, or missing, then the battery holder can wobble around a bit in the camera. The small latch only hooks at one point, and relies on the perimeter seal to keep the holder "balanced". This happened to me. One way to check is to push the battery holder harder into the camera, and keep pushing while the camera is on. If it makes a connection, then that's a likely culprit.
If that's not it, then check the voltage with the battery holder out of the camera. You'll need a multimeter to check the voltage with the batteries in the holder. One end is actually a battery end, and the other is two small contact strip. You can look in the camera to see the contact points there, and guestimate where they should be on the holder. The voltage at the holder should be the sum of the individual battery voltages. If you get no voltage, or low voltage measurement, then the problem is poor connection in the battery holder.
Unfortunately, this seal material can degrade over time, and can come off entirely, or in spots. If that seal is in poor shape, or missing, then the battery holder can wobble around a bit in the camera. The small latch only hooks at one point, and relies on the perimeter seal to keep the holder "balanced". This happened to me. One way to check is to push the battery holder harder into the camera, and keep pushing while the camera is on. If it makes a connection, then that's a likely culprit.
If that's not it, then check the voltage with the battery holder out of the camera. You'll need a multimeter to check the voltage with the batteries in the holder. One end is actually a battery end, and the other is two small contact strip. You can look in the camera to see the contact points there, and guestimate where they should be on the holder. The voltage at the holder should be the sum of the individual battery voltages. If you get no voltage, or low voltage measurement, then the problem is poor connection in the battery holder.
Is there an internal battery that takes charge from the double AAs like some computers?
I'll try to clean it, change batteries and if that fails, take it to the Nikon repair in ABQ. Disassembly is above. my pay grade.
MattKing
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Thread title tweaked.
No I think not as it has no clock. The settings can be stored in non volatile RAM.
Yikes! Thanks for that. I had left one battery out. Now works perfectly again. And yes, I feel rather stupid.
Heck Yeah! Thats a big win!!!!!
MattKing
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So should we change the thread title to "My Nikon 100 is hungry"?
Glad you found the solution - and that Photrio/@Chan Tran helped.
Great Arthur! A solution. I usually live on the pessimistic side of life but on this occasion I thought from the start: There must be an easy solution An F100 just doesn't stop working completely and becomes a paperweight
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My memory was faulty. I thought the F100 takes CR123 batteries so I checked the manual and verified. Thus I found that it needs 4 AA's and the OP said he put 3 new AA;s so I questioned the OP.
Gotta love an easy cheap fix.
Don’t feel stupid, feel smart that with a little trouble shooting you restored the camera to good working condition. Added bonus it only cost the price of a single AA battery. Sounds like a win to me.
Roger
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PHOTRIO helps free of charge, who knows what they would have charged you for this repair in a repair shop ... 
PHOTRIO helps free of charge, who knows what they would have charged you for this repair in a repair shop ...
This is the only kind of repair a repair shop can actually make money in my opinion. You're the one who does a lot of repair and you must agree with me if you were to try to make a living repair cameras you can't. So to be honest I seriously doubt any affordable CLA.
Who knows.
If, like Sover Wong, you specialize in working on a popular camera and can't keep up with the workload ...
But I wouldn't want to do the same thing every day.
But Sover charges more for his work than the price of a good working camera.
Rightly so, because after his work the Nikon F2 is as good as new in terms of functionality.
He is worth it but it's only for those who has to have an F2 in perfect working condition money not important. Now there is no Sover Wong for the F100 but assume there is and he would normally charges $500 to fix an F100 would you recommend the OP to send it to them if his camera is really broken?
That's the problem. You can replace an F100 with another one that works for $350.00, which is a great bargain for a great camera.
That only works be cause his work is worth the price.
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