RE: The Nikon 5700 Coolpix "Black Screen" Problem:
I thought it was due to me and my practice of mistreating small animals and arcane digital equipment, but after reading this thread in the photo,net forums, I'm relieved to find out that IT WASN'T ME (if one can be perverse enough to find comfort in the fact that other people are experiencing the same problem as oneself).
I initially noticed this dilemma about a week ago, but chalked it up to an inability to operate sophisticated equipment due to ingestion of mass quantities of beer, but, yesterday, after a controlled sobriety test extending over thirty minutes where I fiddled with every conceivable combination of button presses and switch positions, I had no other recourse than to come to the conclusion that, again, IT WASN'T ME! Apparently Osama Bin Laden was alive and well, quietly employed in a Nikon factory and programming Nikon 5700 ROM chips with the KABLOOIE MACHINE CODE LINE so that our coveted little electronic trinkets would all drop dead at a moment's notice! May that rotten bastard burn in photographic hell...
Due to recent economic constraints on my life I was almost ready to sell my Canon EOS 35mmm film camera system. Now, I'm not so sure, and I'm even considering taking alternative action one step further by making a pinhole camera. I ask you, how fool-proof would THAT be?
I haven't read all the posts on this subject yet, but as soon as I'm finished chewing on my Mattel toy I'm gonna find out if this problem can be handled for me by Nikon at little or no expense. If so, I shall once more step outside into the bright sunlight with my gizmo in hand, happily clicking the shutter in order to commit random acts of image capture!
Thanks be to photo.net, and all who commune... ---ukrainian.
Coolpix 5700 - Black screen
in Nikon
Posted
September 11th, 2007
(Something about the date...)
RE: The Nikon 5700 Coolpix "Black Screen" Problem:
I thought it was due to me and my practice of mistreating small animals and arcane digital equipment, but after reading this thread in the photo,net forums, I'm relieved to find out that IT WASN'T ME (if one can be perverse enough to find comfort in the fact that other people are experiencing the same problem as oneself).
I initially noticed this dilemma about a week ago, but chalked it up to an inability to operate sophisticated equipment due to ingestion of mass quantities of beer, but, yesterday, after a controlled sobriety test extending over thirty minutes where I fiddled with every conceivable combination of button presses and switch positions, I had no other recourse than to come to the conclusion that, again, IT WASN'T ME! Apparently Osama Bin Laden was alive and well, quietly employed in a Nikon factory and programming Nikon 5700 ROM chips with the KABLOOIE MACHINE CODE LINE so that our coveted little electronic trinkets would all drop dead at a moment's notice! May that rotten bastard burn in photographic hell...
Due to recent economic constraints on my life I was almost ready to sell my Canon EOS 35mmm film camera system. Now, I'm not so sure, and I'm even considering taking alternative action one step further by making a pinhole camera. I ask you, how fool-proof would THAT be?
I haven't read all the posts on this subject yet, but as soon as I'm finished chewing on my Mattel toy I'm gonna find out if this problem can be handled for me by Nikon at little or no expense. If so, I shall once more step outside into the bright sunlight with my gizmo in hand, happily clicking the shutter in order to commit random acts of image capture!
Thanks be to photo.net, and all who commune... ---ukrainian.