20 Most Recent Nikon D70 Body Only Digital Camera Questions & Answers

use high quality speed card. secondly every camera company shows you bright picture because they want to cell their product with bright screen. so if you are a photographer then you ahve to use screen brightness and darkness in camera keep it on -2 setting

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

Usually when my shutter won't operate, I get an ERR message. I have been able to fix it by turning the camera off and back on. If that doesn't work, I have occasionally had to remove and reinstall the battery. The D-90 users manual says that the ERR message indicates a camera malfunction and can be cleared by releasing the shutter. But, I found the shutter won't release unless you turn the camera off. The manual also says if this condition occurs frequently or persists, you should contact an Nikon authorized repair center. I suggest before you do that, that you contact Nikon tech support at www.nikon.com to see what they might suggest.

You could try formatting in on PC by right clicking the card's icon in My Computer to bring up the options, then format it on the camera as well

Hi, The problem with your camera is the power switch under the top cover needs to be repaired Or replaced by a camera repair tec, I have repaired this problem many times, Not a quick fix.

Consider NOT connecting your camera to your computer.The best way to download pictures from your camera to your computer involves removing the memory card from the camera and plugging it into a card reader (either built-in to the computer or connected via USB or FireWire). This is likely to be faster than connecting the camera to the computer, and won't run down your camera's batteries.Once the card is plugged in, it will appear to your computer as a removable drive. You can use the operating system's drag&drop facility to copy pictures from the card to the computer's hard drive, the same way you copy any other files. Or you can use any photo cataloging program such as Nikon Transfer or Picasa.

Won't take a picture?? Why not?? Chip in? battery up? Any error readings? Lens in place? Set on auto? Camera on? Check owner's manual? If you need repair, United Camera is a good place for Nikon repair, they have fixed 2 of my cameras. good prices, no problems.

R10 message is just a report of the current memory buffer status, not an error indication.

It's normal for a Nikon DSLR to display the number of shots "remaining" in the buffer when you "half press" the shutter button to turn on metering or focus. That's what the "r" stands for: "remaining". When you're not pressing the button, it displays the number of shots that will fit on the CF card.


When you have the camera in a mode where it won't take a picture, you'll get the buffer remaining count even when you fully press the button, which is why you mistake if for an error code. There's several reasons why a D70 might refuse to fire. It won't fire if you're in "single focus" mode and the AF system can't converge. It won't fire when you connect an old style TTL flash (like your Sunpak) and you have the camera in P, S, or A mode. That's what you're running into.

Hope this helps.

Tokina makes their lenses with a variety of mounts. A lens with Canon mount, for example, won't fit onto a Nikon. Assuming you get the lens with a Nikon mount, then yes, you can use it with a D70 and with a D700.

A connector is a jack and plug - like a headphone jack and associated headphone plug at the end of a cord. The jack is the opening on the front of the stereo and the plug pushes (or plugs) into the jack.

The D70 has many connectors or "jacks" and mating "plugs". Some of these connectors are long and very narrow. The plugs that go into those are mostly thin, flat, pieces of plastic with circuit traces on them like those shown below.


The picture above shows 5 connectors with plugs attached on the printed circuit board or "PCB" . The screwdriver is being used to lift the locking tab so that the gold colored circuit traces can be unpluged easily. The lock tab should be lifted to make plugging in possible.

Other connectors on the D70 are used to bring cables from outside of the camera to inside. An example would be the USB jack and your CF card connector. Other connectors allow the different PCBs in the camera to work together by sending and receiving signals between the PCBs. Here's a link to IR filter removal and D70 disassembly.

This is a pretty intense job you're performing so go slow, and pay attention to the parts (take pictures with your cell phone) you remove in each step to help you get it all back together again. I hope this helps and good luck! Please rate my reply. Thank you.

Okay the FEE is telling me that you haven't locked your lens in at F22. Lock the lens should be an aperture ring turn it to the smallest aperture and there is a little lock on the side of the lens that will hold it in that position. The camera then looks after the rest. If this is allowed to float then the camera is getting a faults input from the lens. The CHG is a card error, possible you have been deleting images from the card and not formatting the card the card needs to be formatted to the camera.
As a rule of thumb format the memory card in the camera after each time you download pictures to the computer. This cleans the memory card and allows proper communications between memory card and camera. Okay you'll love this one the "FOR" error is a known problem with Nikon D70 and can be fixed by updating your camera firmware on Nikon's site that Otta help. cheers have fun

You can download the manual from here:
Download the D70 User's Manual
Have fun!

Make sure the battery is fully charges then press the hardware reset button on the camera bottom.

I'm going to put this in capital letters...DO NOT USE A CLOTH OR SWAB AND ALCOHOL ON THE SENSOR....YOU WILL END UP WITH AN EXPENSIVE PAPER WEIGHT. Instead, Google the words "how to clean a DSLR sensor" and you will find sites that will explain the procedure along with pictures and lists of places to get the proper supplies. It may seem complicated but with the right tools, it's easy and only takes a couple of minutes.

1. You could lower the ISO setting. 2. You could lower the "exposure compensation" setting. It's the button that's half-black/half-white with a plus and minus. There are many other ways but you really should carefully read your instruction manual and experiment.

Hi. HR is an error code which is related to the memory card. It doesn't have exact meaning (as far as I know, its not in the manual and website).

There are several possibilities why you are getting this error. It could be corrupted memory card, damaged pin, loose connection between the memory card and camera, dirty contacts, camera is not giving enough power to memory card, etc...

Some fixes that may work:
- Make sure your battery is fully charged.
- Remove memory card and put it back making sure the connection is not loose.

or
- Clean the gold contacts using pencil eraser. Remove eraser dust with cotton buds.

or
- Format the memory card on the camera.

- If all fails, use a different memory card.

Good luck.

According to this page http://www.nikonusa.com/Find-Your-Nikon/Product/Camera-Lenses/2149/AF-S-DX-Zoom-NIKKOR-18-70mm-f%252F3.5-4.5G-IF-ED.html the lens uses 67mm filters.

How do these get posted? Just curious about the screening process, I guess.