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photonewb · **what the heck is this! -** 07-08-2007, 07:34 PM

okay so I saw this in a couple of pictures I took today, I cropped the piece I'm talking about. There's a red line going right down the picture...what the heck is this!

robert t · 07-08-2007, 08:10 PM

that is a sensor problem.

Casper · 07-08-2007, 08:21 PM

My guess is some kind of noise. Can you get similar lines in a properly exposed photo? Is it in every photo?

Steve

photonewb · 08:24 PM

son of a!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the thing isn't even a month old.

looking at a bunch of the pictures it's in a lot of them it's really obvious when there's something dark right there obviously....grrrr

for some reason it also only seems to be on shots with the 18-55kit lens

photonewb · 08:47 PM

looking at some time stamps on photos it seems to have started up after I changed back to the shorter kit lens. I was using the 55-200VR shooting the tigers at the Houston Aquarium and then when I went back to the kit lens (18-55) it seems to have started.

I'm confused...but mostly ticked off now

edit: or not I just found it in a pic with the longer lens too

, so certainly not the lens

photonewb · 07-08-2007, 08:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Casper

My guess is some kind of noise. Can you get similar lines in a properly exposed photo? Is it in every photo?

Steve

I think Robert might be right...here's a crop of it in another pic taken outside, it's just small red dot in this one though

so now to see what I can do about it

venchka · 07-08-2007, 09:31 PM

Welcome to the world of the End User is the final quality inspector. Take it back to the folks you bought it from. Or send it to Nikon.

johnastovall · 07-09-2007, 10:36 AM

It looks like a noise artifact in a very noisy capture. It could also be some external electrical noise. Was this at the very edge of the frame? Some sensors have a border of pixes which are never to get light but if they do get a strong light, they can cause a line but usually it's white or green.

What lens were you using? The little red dot might be a small flare.

photonewb · 07-09-2007, 12:20 PM

stovall I think one of the previous suggestions of the sensor is correct

now that I know where it is I started going back and looking at some older pictures. I see the red dot in just about everything. I guess I'm going to have see what the turn around time is on the repairs as I'm going on vacation to FL in a couple of weeks and would really hate to be without a camera period. Time to put that 4 year protection plan to work.

photonewb · 07-09-2007, 03:56 PM

well I guess the 4 year plan pays off sometimes...

so I went to the store today, and even though it was outside of the 14 day return/exchange policy period they let me do a body swap! The manager on duty must've been in a good mood today.

So now a new body and from 2 or 3 test shots I don't see anything wrong yet. Crossing my fingers on this one.

Breezy · 07-09-2007, 04:06 PM

Hope this one works Emmit!

Casper · 07-09-2007, 11:13 PM

Sounds great and post some beach scenes from FL

!!

Larry_L · 07-11-2007, 02:21 AM

Glad you got it swapped out. I had to have a P&S replaced several years ago with the exact same problem. Turned out the sensor was bad.

Ahh! · 07-11-2007, 03:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by photonewb

well I guess the 4 year plan pays off sometimes...

so I went to the store today, and even though it was outside of the 14 day return/exchange policy period they let me do a body swap! The manager on duty must've been in a good mood today.

So now a new body and from 2 or 3 test shots I don't see anything wrong yet. Crossing my fingers on this one.

So, if you don't mind me asking, who was the vendor? Fluke or not, the store deserves a plug.

brianmcho · 07-19-2007, 01:25 AM

oh wow.

that sucks.