That's it?
We send you off with an Honorarium to find the Secret of Life, and that's what you've got for us?

NO kidding, huh.

And the beach bum doesnt even say HELLO to all his friends. pfffffffffftttttttttt.

Welcome back Mike,
I bet you

Mike--

Great to hear from you...

Well, SHOOT!!!! (No pun intended.)

I've just gotten used to my D70 and love it. Now whenever I take it out, I'll be waiting for the pie in the face.

Might as well just forget it, I guess. Can't afford a backup.

Regards as always--TE

Kim,

I've missed you desperately.

Allan,

I'm always taking pictures, but I'm afraid I'm going to be out of service for a while. Kind of scary to be back to my old film back up, my camera has spoiled me rotten.

Tom,

I walked into two more Nikon dealers yesterday and got no helpful information. Each said that they had not heard of the trouble (this is good news for you guys I think) and that I should look for help on the Nikon web site. So I came home and logged in and e-mailed there tech service department. I

Mike, you darling charmer you - you know what a girl likes to hear!

I bet those folks at the nursing home were desperately clawing under their mattresses for more dollar bills!

Im so glad to see your back. :)

I hope Bill Murry will forgive me for stealing his schtick.

About the dirty picture thing: my understanding is that it isn't really a rule, it's just a suggested guideline.

As I reported above, my D70 is kaput. I have further news in this regard.

I discovered a nice little retail art supply store in Englewood, Florida. I noticed that the owner had a D70 on a tripod and began to tell him about my tribulations. He said that he has owned three of them and two of them had already been returned to the factory for the same problems that I had experienced. That's four D70's that I know of in a twenty mile radius of where I live.

Also, while searching their web site, www.Nikonusa.com, for any relevant information, I noticed that they have a recall on the battery: EN-EL3, which was supplied with my D70, as well as the D50 and D100. You might want to check the site and see if the serial numbers match what you have.

I have a new service number that I'm going to try tomorrow: 1-800-645-6678

Mike--

Thanks for the heads up on the battery. Nice that you only find out when you visit the Nikon website by accident, since the reason for the "voluntary" recall is that the !@#$%^&*(!@#! batteries apparently overheat and MELT!

They instruct you to remove it and send it in, and not put it back in the camera. They'll send a replacement, but you still have to return it via UPS.

If you hadn't flagged it, I guess Nikon wouldn't have informed me, letting me happily discover it when it destroyed the camera and fried my paw. This is my first Nikon. I expected better from these guys.

Now about the other thing....can I eat the fiber and still look at the dirty pictures, or are they linked?

Hoping for a loophole--TE