Thanks, guys... Yes, I agree that the camera is headed in for service. I was just curious if anyone had ever encountered such odd symptoms before, or if it was a classic sign of "sensor meltdown syndrome" or some such. It's a bummer -- she's headed to Italy at the end of the week for a family vacation.
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 11:47 PM, P. J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > I think that Paul's right. The symptoms you describe are well beyond > anything you can do to diagnose besides saying you get extreme over > exposures in all modes. It may not be a sensor problem, but what ever is > wrong in the image processing train isn't something that a user is likely to > be able to fix, even if they had spare parts available if they could > diagnose the problem. > > On 11/13/2011 10:34 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: >> >> I would guess it's a sensor problem. But it's impossible to say. Time for >> a trip to NIkon service. >> Paul >> On Nov 13, 2011, at 9:30 PM, Christine Nielsen wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> What do you make of this: >>> >>> A friend brought her camera to me today, a Nikon D50, which has been >>> shooting blanks lately. Every photo she takes turns out all white. >>> No visible traces of the image are there. Just white. >>> >>> Pretty quickly, I exhausted what little technical expertise I had to >>> apply to the issue. It happens in all exposure modes, Auto/P/A/S/M. >>> It happens on different sd cards. Other, older images on the sd card >>> are visible on the lcd screen upon review. The aperture appears to be >>> changing as directed. The shutter doesn't appear to be "sticking" >>> open. I tried underexposing a shot by up to -4 stops... still white. >>> Google isn't turning up much, either. >>> >>> Thoughts? I'm guessing her sensor is toast, but what do I know? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> -c >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> > > > -- > Don't lose heart! They might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid > a lengthily search. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
