That pretty much matches what I was told by a D200 owner - he'd had no problems with his one (which he'd had for 3 months or so), but he knew of some other owners who had run into the problem, which Nikon had fixed free of charge.
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 03:07:56PM -0800, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > The issue Nikon's been having with the early production D200s isn't > the sensor itself. It's in some of the supporting hardware and > adjustable/controllable, within limits of course. People who are > experiencing a problem are being told to return their cameras for a > service to eliminate it. From what I was told by a Nikon tech, it's > simply changing some small setting or resistor. > > I think the choice of sensor is excellent. By the time Pentax goes > into production on it, all the kinks with the components should be > well known and easy for them to eliminate in the final product. > > Godfrey > Patience is rewarded. > > On Feb 23, 2006, at 2:56 PM, Juan Buhler wrote: > > >There have been cases of strange banding--"courduroy noise" in D200 > >images in low light. However, Ken Rockwell loves it and says it isn't > >a problem.
