Wednesday, July 27, 2005, 7:43:44 PM, Godfrey wrote: GD> Sigh. The way electrons and circuitry interact is *at least* as GD> stable and predictable as how chemical compounds and photons GD> interact. Indeed, the way that chemical compounds and photons GD> interact is *due* to how electrons interact.
Sigh. You obviously haven't been around computers much. Murphys laws apply here twice as much as in normal life, and little pixies & electron fairies have their quirks ;-) If you want a more "rational" explanation (as you seem to be that kind of guy...), think of the computers as increasingly complex systems, getting so complex that the issue of randomness has greater and greater impact. Of if you would be like me, you would think of the little pixies inside your camera having a bad day... Back to Dave's question: Dave, how have you the camera set up? Might it have something with autocontrast or autowhitebalance? I would suggest turning these off. Most of the time they worked excellently but they can get confused too. And even if by a small change of light distribution in the frame. The camera would have to have our entire optical brain centers to figure out white balance every time correctly... If this doesn't help, send it to Nikon *again*. You are a NPS member, aren't you, you should get better attitude & fast turnaround (although, I have horror stories from both Nikon and Canon NPS/CPS members, I think company service are always horrid...) Frantisek Frantisek
