Nikon fe light is apparantly leaking into camera because pictures have white at edge picture.

Turn the aperture ring on the lens to its smallest setting (largest f/number). You can control the aperture from the camera body, the same was as with a lens without an aperture ring.

Experiment with lowering the "exposure compensation" setting until you get the desired results. Also, don't forget to use a tripod.

Hi,

Can the white balance have been changed accidently?
This will make the pictures look yellow.
So will taking pictures indoors under artificial light.

The White Balance setting is under the shooting menu, try setting it to auto.

Hope this helps.

Sounds like you have a light leak. At the film plane of your camera the image from the lens is upside down and laterally reversed, so the light leak is at the top left of the film when it's in the camera. If you're shooting for prints look at the strips of negatives. If the edges of the film are affected as well as the picture area then the light leak is at the back. If it's just the picture area then the light leak is through the film gate. If you hold a strip of negatives in the camera with the emulsion towards the lens and the picture upside down and then line up the picture with the film gate this should point to the problem area. All this assumes that your finger wasn't in front of the lens... :-)

Take the camera with the film still inside to a reputable business that develops and prints pictures. The usually have a means of retreiving the film with out futher damage. If you want to do this yourself, you will need a place that is totally dark. You will also need something that is totally light tight. A solid plastic film canister may be sufficient. Take your camera into the "dark room" , open the back and gently try and release the film avoiding as much as possible only touching the edges of the film. You can turn the lights on once you have the film inside the light tight canister.

My camera has lost the audio and when i take pictures outside they are white, can not see any images .like if the lens is letting in too much light. indoor and night pictures come out ok. what can be the problem , this is a new camera. OLYMPUS FE-21o

I HATE TO SAY THIS BUT I BELIEVE THAT YOU HAVE BEEN SOLD A DAMAGED CAMERA. THIS HAPPENS MANY TIMES ON EBAY WHEN THE DEAL SOUNDS TO GOOD TO PASS UP. FOR ONE THING YOU HAVE A NIKON FE CAMERA, BUT THEN YOU HAVE TWO DIFFERENT MAKE LENSES, BOTH ECONOMY GRADE LENSES, NOT NIKON STANDARD QUALITY. THE PROBLEMS YOU ARE HAVING ARE MOST LIKELY CAUSED FROM A CAMERA THAT HAS BEEN DROPPED. I AM INCLOSING TO HOTLINKS OF NIKON DEALERS THAT DO REPAIR WORK AND GIVE FREE ESTIMATES. YOUR BEST BET IS TO HAVE THIS CAMERA SERVICED BY A NIKON REPAIR SHOP IF YOU PLAN ON KEEPING THE CAMERA. IF YOU JUST BOUGHT IT FROM EBAY, I WOULD FILE A PROTEST STATING THE CAMERA IS BROKEN AND DOESN'T WORK AND DEMAND YOUR MONEY BACK! THEY WILL USUALLY BACK THIS TYPE OF CLAIM. GOOD LUCK! SORRY FOR YOUR MISFORTUNE.

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The aperture ring is set wrong on your lens. It needs to be at the minimum f-stop, (highest number), usually in orange.

I have the same problem as you... Nikon acknowledges that they have this problem on other Coolpix models, see: http://home.nikon-asia.com/pagearticle.php?pageid=43-7cc915b40d

Now, how do we get Nikon to acknowledge that this is a problem on the 5100 as well?

CCD failure. Known issue apparently based on other posts on other forums and web sites: http://www.nikon.co.nz/pagearticle.php?pageid=2-bdc691bf61