As near as I can remember I had something like this happen to me with one of my D300's. I contacted Nikon and they said it was probably the CF card. It turned out to be the CF card. I tried a different card and everything was fine. I reformatted the culpret card and it has not happened since. I sure hope this is it and not the camera.
D700 issue/malfunction: yellowish bar in photos
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A bad CF card?! Really? That's even stranger
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its nikon putting its color on a photos ... new feature from Nikon to differentiate Nikon from Canon : )
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As I can remember the Nikon tech said sometimes the card gets mixed up when recording the image and does not record all of the color info in the correct order or something like that. As I said it was a couple of years ago or so and my memory isn't as good as it used to be. He said usually reformatting will set things straight. If that particular card keeps doing it then junk the card.
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woah. . .that's not right . . .try swapping CF cards, but it could just be a major misalignment of luck for you. . .I would STILL check with lensrentals.com or whomever you use and get a D700 for the shoot this weekend, as well as buy some fresh CF cards. . .if you have a SanDisk/Lexar/Kingston, they have lifetime warranties so send it back and get it diagnosed/swapped out?
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I sent in a question to Nikon. Hopefully they get back to me soon.
Just so we’re all on the same page: I was not using a flash. Only available, fluorescent light at a church. At least, I think it was fluorescent. No flash, though. That’s for sure.
Bmxdad: I did not look at the histogram. I suppose I can check it out in LR, though?
As I said, it produced the same results with both an 85mm and 50mm. I was sure to look inside the camera and see if there was anything (visible), but everything looked normal. The other weird thing with this was that it occurred in two different places: one was the room in which those pictures were taken. The other was in an open “hall” thing. It was also shot with available light (I think it was also fluorescent light). The strangest part was that it went away. I took other shots in both places and everything turned out.
Nau: Guess I got the special one then! Anyone want to buy my ultra rare D700 ;-p
Johndbr: Did it happen to you consistently? Like, every shot you took you’d get a weird colored band? This would make my life a lot easier if it was just the card (the card I was using was a Sandisk 16GB Extreme III). The only thing is that the camera stopped doing it…I’m going to test to see if it was the cold weather tomorrow.
Thanks for all the help! Anyone have anything else?
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Just got a response back from Nikon:
"Working temperature for the cameras are 32 degrees, so the colder air may have affected the operation of the camera, which would not be a malfunction just something caused by that colder temperature. Has it occurred again or since?"
I responded to them and attached the pictures. I didn't know the D700 could only handle 32 degrees...
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That's good! Hopefully it was only the cold, and that'll be the end of it. Maybe you should get a jacket for you D700! ;^)
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Wow, I expected the D700 to be quite tougher than that. Only 0 degrees C huh?
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Exen, It happened on a couple of shots on one lexar 8gb 133x card. None of the other cards did this. I marked an X on the card in question and formatted it as Nikon instructed. It has never happened again. I probably got at least 5 to 10 thousand shots on this card since then. None of my other cards had this happen. I use mostly Lexar cards. After I formatted the card I shot about 50 shots single and at 5 frames per second to see if it would mess up again. Never did it again. When you test again, shoot with at leasr two different cards.
Best of luck,
John
Oh, by the way I sent Nikon a copy of the bad image when I contacted them.Posted 3 years ago # -
Well I hope that's just it then. Maybe condensation on the lens or sensor? Keep us informed forum brother :^)
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/me doesn't like the CF card answer from Nikon. Smells like standard support drone script.
Draw yourself a little 4x4 grid of pixels ( I promise, this won't take long), split each of those up into a 1x4 box, two greens, one red, one blue. Now pretend write that pattern down in a straight line left to right top to bottom, just like you're a RAW/TIFF image. See something? The colors don't get grouped. Imaging the totally wacky write error a CF card would have to have to have something like 1 out of 4 of bytes written be flilpped, and for said error to repeat every 3 bytes. Makes no sense.
AND THAT'S assuming you don't have RAW compression on. If you have compression on there is no predictable relationship between the layout on the screen/sensor and the order the bytes gets written to the card. What would THOSE odds be to have an effectively random write order show up as a consistent linear feature? Slim to none.It's late, and I may have totally blown my math when thinking about this - but I'm pretty dang sure the point is valid. You'd need a complicated write error _pattern_ to show up as such an oddly linear feature.
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Not quite the right pattern, but it's too late for me to draw any better! ;)
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That's not right? How should it be then? You can draw with letters and I'll make it:
GRGR
BGBGetc.
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You drew a 2x2 array of pixels with the appropriate 2x2 array subpixels, but read them off line by line instead of pixel by pixel.
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Oh, OK. I'll fix that.
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Like this?
Posted 3 years ago # -
I think you guys should start a new thread on this topic.
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Nah, too lazy ;^)
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Soap, what I meant is that some people might find your discussion interesting and instead of looking for it buried in here you could start a new topic on it.
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CAN SOMEBODY TELL ME IF I GOT THE DIAGRAM RIGHT!?!
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@NikoDoby: That's why we need a Wiki! What happened to our plans of having one? I was on vacation during that time so I didn't get a chance to find out what happened.
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Dude the wiki was built but no one ever came :^(
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That's too bad—I would have become a member! Can we "bring it back from the dead"?
Heck, if you want I'll make one and run it!
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