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D700
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<blockquote data-quote="Tim King" data-source="post: 115270" data-attributes="member: 12973"><p>Hello, Nikonites!</p><p></p><p>I am a newby here.... Been shooting for a couple of years ... Really enjoy it more as a personal hobby .... Had a portraiture business, didn't make any money ... go figure .... got into debt, got out of debt .... just bought a D700, used camera, with 2,010 or so acutations on it .... LIKE NEW, beautiful ...</p><p></p><p>So ... here's the embarrassing thing:</p><p></p><p>I'm sitting in the living room, watching TV, and decide .... I'm going to take pictures of the TV .... We happen to have a 70", so it fills up the screen in my camera, quite well from where I'm sitting ...</p><p></p><p>And I figure, okay, let's kick up the ISO a little .... and shooting ... and increasing the ISO, and all the sudden I see this very unpleasant black band running across the image ... AND in different places each time I take a snap ....</p><p></p><p>I thought, "Geeeez ..... that's weird ....." because I had purchased a D800 couple of weeks back, and returned it BECAUSE of the black band running across the screen...</p><p></p><p>I also realized it would start doing this around 1/500 of a second ... and start thinking, "Hmmmm ... I wonder if the mirror is lagging or something?</p><p></p><p>Well ... to say the least, I drove 45 minutes BACK to the camera store thinking something wrong with my camera ....</p><p></p><p>The guy says, "You can't take pictures of TV's or computer monitors becase the refresh rate can't sync with your camera and that's why you are getting the band ....</p><p></p><p>Surely .... I thought the guy was nuts .... so I asked him to pop a lens on my camera and that I would show him .... guess what ... NO BAND, because I was taking pictures of things in the store ...</p><p></p><p>So .... very weird I have to add .... very weird ...</p><p></p><p>But, the guy said, if you wanna take picture of TV,drop the shutter speed to around 1/60th.</p><p></p><p>To say the least .... I was quite embarrassed. I spent tons of time looking for the banding issue on google .... and it was all pointing to flash and sync speed .... and of course ... that didn't apply to my situation ....</p><p></p><p>Ughghghghgh....</p><p></p><p>But .... I found out that the camera only has 2,000 some odd actuations .... and the guy said it was like brand new.....</p><p></p><p>So .... I'm a happy Nikonite again.</p><p></p><p>Tim</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tim King, post: 115270, member: 12973"] Hello, Nikonites! I am a newby here.... Been shooting for a couple of years ... Really enjoy it more as a personal hobby .... Had a portraiture business, didn't make any money ... go figure .... got into debt, got out of debt .... just bought a D700, used camera, with 2,010 or so acutations on it .... LIKE NEW, beautiful ... So ... here's the embarrassing thing: I'm sitting in the living room, watching TV, and decide .... I'm going to take pictures of the TV .... We happen to have a 70", so it fills up the screen in my camera, quite well from where I'm sitting ... And I figure, okay, let's kick up the ISO a little .... and shooting ... and increasing the ISO, and all the sudden I see this very unpleasant black band running across the image ... AND in different places each time I take a snap .... I thought, "Geeeez ..... that's weird ....." because I had purchased a D800 couple of weeks back, and returned it BECAUSE of the black band running across the screen... I also realized it would start doing this around 1/500 of a second ... and start thinking, "Hmmmm ... I wonder if the mirror is lagging or something? Well ... to say the least, I drove 45 minutes BACK to the camera store thinking something wrong with my camera .... The guy says, "You can't take pictures of TV's or computer monitors becase the refresh rate can't sync with your camera and that's why you are getting the band .... Surely .... I thought the guy was nuts .... so I asked him to pop a lens on my camera and that I would show him .... guess what ... NO BAND, because I was taking pictures of things in the store ... So .... very weird I have to add .... very weird ... But, the guy said, if you wanna take picture of TV,drop the shutter speed to around 1/60th. To say the least .... I was quite embarrassed. I spent tons of time looking for the banding issue on google .... and it was all pointing to flash and sync speed .... and of course ... that didn't apply to my situation .... Ughghghghgh.... But .... I found out that the camera only has 2,000 some odd actuations .... and the guy said it was like brand new..... So .... I'm a happy Nikonite again. Tim [/QUOTE]
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