Hi My Nikon D70 only now produces black photos. On speaking to Nikon suppor they state that this requires a replacement CCD however is this a known D70 fault and thus should be fixed for free? or is there another way i can fix it myself? Kind Regards Lavan

Do you see coherent photos in the camera's rear display when the CF card is still in the camera?

Hi there:
Some symptoms of a defective CCD (Charge Coupled Device) include distorted images or abnormal colors, scratchy purple lines, blank or black pictures, and/or black videos with good sound being recorded on the camera's flash card.

When a picture is taken, the CCD is struck by light coming through the camera's lens. Each of the thousands or millions of tiny pixels that make up the CCD convert this light into electrons. The number of electrons, usually described as the pixel's accumulated charge, is measured, then converted to a digital value.

I suggest you phone Photo Local support and tell them the problem and that you suspect the CCD.Ask for a repair quote for a CCD replacement.If the product is under warranty.


Click on or copy and paste the link into your browser... CCD Sensor Problems

In this link, other owners with this problem obtain certain commets:support/canon_fs100_fully

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Guide to recover deleted photos from Nikon D70?
Connect Nikon with PC
Using a USB cable or putting SD card into an SD card reader to connect Nikon with Computer.
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Hi!
Cause - faulty CCD imager.
Cure - imager replacement.
It can be done only by Nikon authorized service center and if you're out of warranty - it will be expensive.

Sorry for the bad news.

Tom

I've got a D70 and never had this issue. I bought mine around the same time frame. Thanks for the info!

CCD FAILURE !

Call NIKON for FREE REPAIRS it is a known issue ask them about BAD CCD

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Regards

Zohail

CCD FAILURE! D70 's and D80 's 90's all have this problem

Call NIKON for Free Repairs it is a known manufac fault in thousands of cameras , dont worry just call them see this for info on this problem

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this applies to all products with same problem dont worry u r included just call them and tell them abt BAD CCD !

Good Luck !

D70 produces lovely crisp images as long as the lens is pretty good.  This sounds like a camera body that needs a service.,,

The Nikon D70 does not have a black-and-white mode setting.

However, you can take your photo in color and then use software to convert it to a grayscale photo. (Black and white implies an image with only those two values per pixel; grayscale can have 8 to 16 bits per pixel.) Most photo editing packages have a "desaturate" feature that does an automated conversion to grayscale.

The open source image editor Gimp has a "channel mixer" dialog that would allow you to approximate the effect of various filters before performing the desaturate function. This would allow you to experiment with the procedures if you do not have a commercial photo editor like Adobe PhotoShop. There is a special wrapper of Gimp that puts its interface into a configuration like that of PhotoShop; look for "GimpShop". The open source image manipulation package ImageMagick may also be used if you prefer working with command line utilities.

The black spot i suspect was the CCD or processor failing. Checkout Nikon customer support re this.