From: cptomes (cptomes@hotmail.com)
Date: Sun Apr 27 2003 - 23:04:20 EDT
I was taking outdoor shots of a motorcycle event. Filled one 256mb
card, switched to another. Got about 40 shots into it, and it locked
up.
Firmware was 1.4, I just upgraded to 1.5 to see if that fixed it. No
go. Firmware comes up as 1.5 now and symptoms are identical.
Symptoms:
-lens "stuck" out.
-power on, in any mode except "setup" and ">" (play) and you
immediately get "system error" in red over the background.
-when powered on with turret in "setup" and then rotate it to any
picture-taking mode, the lens RETRACTS AND THEN COMES BACK OUT and
the "system error" message is displayed.
conditions:
-fully charged battery
-cf cards formatted in this camera
-camera brand new as of 12/2002 and has been pampered (no mars on
case, no drops/shocks/water/grit)
attempted remedies:
-power off and on
-pull battery, move switch to on, then off, then replace battery (to
see if it needed some caps discharged somewhere...) and switch on
-replace cf card with previously used card (no effect expected)
WTF??? I expect a Nikon to work as well as or better than a Sony.
My father's DV camcorder worked flawlessly in the same environment.
I had to give up on the still images and use the camcorder instead,
despite needing more stills. I'll do frame grabs from the video but
DAMN this sucks. I have a $500 paperweight and I'm getting pretty
unhappy. I'm a computer systems administrator and if Nikon isn't
going to give me a usable camera I'm going to return it for something
that works. I'm finding LOTS of hits for "system error" on various
Coolpix cameras and it looks like a hardware problem, apparently
stepper motors?
What happened? I thought Nikon film cameras were the gold standard
of the industry. Are their digital cameras just eye candy and not
worth buying until you pay for a D1?
This was going to be a paying gig until the still camera crapped
out. Now I have some 35mm and the video to work with.
CP Tomes
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