My Nikon D70 Is Sick
I purchased my Nikon D70 the first week it was out almost three years ago. When you pay around $1,000 for an item, you expect it to be pretty darn good. I knew there might be some quirks seeing as it was one of the first off the assembly line, but it’s been in to Nikon service for two “major” repairs already. Well, now it’s time to drive the hour to Nikon Service and drop it off again. The CF card slot is going bonkers. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. Sometimes the photos get saved, sometimes they’re corrupt. So I pretty much have no clue if my photos are going to exist after I take them. And yes, it’s the card slot, it does it with all my cards. Very frustrating to say the least. Argh.
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My D70 failed a week ago. I done everthing from A to Z for it’s recovery, but no joy.
I haven’t yet contacted Nikon repair service to bring it from it’s coma.
If the cost is between $100 to $200, I’ll will trash it.
So today, I took out my M4 (Leica) loaded with it with Pro Kodak BW400CN. Took a few test shots today. Won’t know the outcome untill 36 frames are developed and burned it to a CD which I believe can be open with NX or LightRoom.
I’m a conserative photographer. I don’t use the camera as a machine gun.
Comment by Louis on December 27th, 2006 at 11:44 pm
OH no, John, this is terrible! I hope your Nikon gets well soon.
Comment by Stephanie Simpson on December 28th, 2006 at 7:22 pm
I hope so, too!
Comment by John Koontz on December 28th, 2006 at 7:25 pm
[...] So yesterday I posted about my sick D70. This is just a follow-up post to explain the past problems. After a few weeks of owning the D70, I realized it might have the somewhat common backfocus problem that seemed to plague new DSLR camera bodies a few years ago (Canon and Nikon both had issues). I took it in and they fixed it under warranty. From what I read, it should have been a simple calibration. When looking at the invoice, it said the camera required “major repairs” and “significant component replacement”. Seemed a bit odd to me, but oh well, the fix was free. [...]
Comment by SyncSpeed - » More On My Sick Nikon D70 Camera on December 28th, 2006 at 7:40 pm
Is it the blinking-green-light-of-death?
Comment by JimmyD on December 28th, 2006 at 11:56 pm
It started by the camera not thinking a card was present. I could take it out and put it back in and everything would be ok. It’s still doing that, but sometimes the LCD blinks either FOR or CHA. I believe it blinks FOR because it thinks the card needs to be formated (which it doesn’t). Not sure what the CHA means. I need to look that one up.
Comment by John Koontz on December 29th, 2006 at 10:25 am
I don’t know CHA either, but it sure sounds (exactly) like the problems I was having with my D70 before it “officially” got the blinking-green-light-of-death”. Nikon fixed it just fine for free, but since I’d bought the D70s in the interim, I’ve since sold it. I’ve always been a little suspicious as to why Nikon brought out the D70″s” so soon after they’d introed the D70 (besides the bigger screen on the D50 which was introduced at the same time). Maybe it was just Marketing and product-pairity (D70 & D50), but I haven’t had any of the troubles with my D70s that seemed to plague my D70. My D-200 on the other hand, has worked flawlessly.
Comment by JimmyD on December 29th, 2006 at 3:15 pm