I went out shooting the Chinese New Year’s parade in Boston and a noticed that my exposures were waaaay off. Mostly too dark, but also too light sometimes.

I pointed the lens to the asphalt, my camera was in A-mode. The shutter speed jumped around from 1/20th to 1/3000th, up and down, etc.

I hard-reset the camera, removed the batteries for a while, changed lenses.. nothing would fix it.

And i saw a couple of times the CHA error, whatever that is. I think i’m on my way to the BGLOD (blinking green light of death) problem…

I guess i have to send my D70 in for repair. Only about 6000 shutter-actuations… shouldn’t have happened… ah well.

Question to anyone in USA to whom this happened as well: What is the expected turn-around time (time between sending in and getting it back fixed)?

BTW: I bought it at BestBuy.com with a 4 year extended warranty.

And a silver lining: I got a good excercise shooting in full manual mode (i have no external light meter)! ‘t Was a lot of work though, with the sun out and the shades of the buildings downtown. I’ll be posting some images soon.

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