lynn_chen

Good news!

Just when I was getting ready to call and bark at the Nikon people, I decided to do one more thing. I slipped the "old" battery that the camera died on back into the camera and voila! The top LCD screen came on!!

I did this so many times last night without any response. Now I feel like I'm sitting on a time bomb waiting to go off!

Thanks everyone for all your helpful answers! I think I might have forgotten to turn off the camera when I unplugged it from the USB, will buy a card reader when all this is over!!

I'm in a somewhat difficult situation though, I bought the camera from Ritz Camera's online store, but I actually live in Japan (one good thing about that is that the service ctr is only 20 minutes away on the subway) so I will have to convince the service ctr to honor the US expired warranty, and demand this camera be repaired for free, all in Japanese!

Wish me luck!

BTW, I tried the reset button and it didn't work =o(

I was uploading photos to my laptop from the D70 using USB cable,

after upload, I noticed that the top LCD screen went blank. I

changed a fresh battery and didn't think too much about it. But

when I tried to turn the camera on later, nothing happened. Then I

realized that the top LCD should always display the number of

possible pictures and should never be blank.

Now I can't turn the camera on and it's as good as dead. Has anyone

ever had this problem before? Is sending it to the repair shop my

only option? It's just over a year old so it's out of warranty

period.

Thanks

Lynn