D70 - out of action

[Mike McCarty]

My Nikon D70 is out for the holidays. Without warning the metering system just went nuts. Luckily I discovered it while taking some useless pictures. The meter, as seen through the view finder, would bounce all over the lot. Any picture I took would either be mostly black or mostly white, depending where you caught the bounce of the meter. No matter what setting I used, including manual, it would not work.

I took the camera to one of the local Nikon dealers, thinking that they could turn a screw or rub it in some special way. The feller behind the counter looked at it and said that he had seen this before. He pulled out a log book of repairs and found a recent entry. He then read the identical symptoms from a recent log entry. No kidding, I said. Yep, he said.

You need to send it off and it will take about six weeks, AND, it's going to cost you $387. That sucks, I said, and I took my camera back and left.

I'm going to look for a second opinion but needless to say I am feeling a little like a stripper without her pasties -- all naked.