Nikon D70s LCD display flashing problem :(

saltie

I bought a nikon d70s from pixmania recently and absolutely love it. I have had it about 5 days and noticed on the 4th day that the LCD display started flashing after i took a pic, basically brighter parts of the pic flashes. I put the pics on my pc and there is no quality lost so the only problem is on the camera. I suppose i have two questions
1) Has anyone else out there had this problem?
2) Pixmania after sales says "Return costs and any risk incurred during transit are to be covered by the customer. "
Does this seem right? The customer has to pay for both sending the item and receiving it?

Hope someone can help

Dissappointed

melekalikimaka

thats a setting...it's highlighting 'whiteout' where the exposure is off and its showing you where the detail is lost as a result.


at least thats what it looks like, i can't remember how to turn it off but i dont think its a error

saltie

Oh wow that would be a godsend melekalikimaka as i`m heading on holidays soon and didnt want to send it back . Thanks very much for your response and i`ll look into it. Does anyone know how to turn this off?

CrowdedHouse

What he said....

If you scroll the multi selector left twice(when viewing a pic) it will be the normal screen

5uspect

Definately not a problem! Relax.

I don't know about the Nikon but on the 350D when you hit the info button and view your pic alongside the histogram it shows the highlight clipping flashing also.
Have a look in the manual for blown highlights or highlight clipping.
Surely there's a setting to disable it if you find it annoying.

melekalikimaka

i'm looking for that nikon guide that used to be on their site that showed you all the cool settings on the camera and how to work them...just can't find it at the mo

saltie

Thanks for all your replies, god i am an amateur! The multi selector left twicw did the trick. Be great if u could track that manual. once again thanks all

bp_me

Register with the support section of www.nikon.co.uk (or use the bugmenot login) and you will be able to download it there.

digitally-yours

Get your camera out of "highlights" mode this mode flashes the over exposure !



its not a problem so ihope u havent send the camera

the problen can be corrected by switching to different mode through nevigation pad the 4 way joystick

Dont ask why i know this lol

Fionn

it's probably not a great idea to switch this feature off,
really what you need to do is adjust your exposure, especially if there's large expances of the photograph being blown out (over exposed) you'll find that the photograph will look a lot better the more detail that can be included in brithtly lit areas of the photograph.
If it's only small areas of clipping and your happy with these over exposing then you can leave it, but it's definately handy if your over exposing a shot.

run_Forrest_run

I agree, keep this feature on as it is invaluable. You can jump from this mode to normal mode as described by crowdedhouse above when needs be.

Zillah

Nah its actually pretty annoying. Any parts of the sky and any lightsources are pretty much jumped upon by it. It seems a little touchy in my experience.