Help. my D70 won't turn off!

What a way to start a holiday weekend! My D70's doing strange things. Sometimes I can't turn it off(or on) or click the shutter, then the shutter fires off a couple of seconds later. This morning, when I started out on my photo shoot, everything was overexposed even though everything looked okay through the viewfinder. Evenually I got a few shots off, but something is definetly wrong. My camera is acting very erratically. Anybody got any suggestions?


Thanks,
Virginia
aka beaucamera  

 

Update

Thanks, everybody for your timely responses. I was able to shoot some stuff evenually and I charged my battery last night. I could see some wear (two almost v shaped regions on the bottom of my battery). I cleaned them off as best I could, but those regions stayed. I took my 70-200 off, took the memory card out and reinserted the battery, then the lens, then the memory card (same one from yesterday..still has 65 shots left!). Everything seems to be okay today. I suspect this is an intermittent problem (or perhaps a problem with the on/off switch or the battery.) I've labelled this battery (have two) and memory card so I can track future activity.

I'll keep you posted. Thanks again for your help! :smile:

Virginia
aka beaucamera

 

This was a good day. I got my camera back. :biggrin: The repair slip says they replaced the switch, meter circuit and calibrated and cleaned everything. They also updated the firmware. Don't know why because I already had the latest version. The total cost including shipping, insurance and tax was $264.49 ($18 worth of parts ). Hey, Flew, thought you might be interested in knowing the repair took 23 day. I sent my D70 in via the local camera store, Keeble and Shuchat. One of the advantages to doing it this way was I was able to authorize repairs over the phone instead of waiting for a hard copy estimate from Nikon to arrive via the US Post Office.

One Happy Camper!

Virginia
aka beaucamera

 

Frank, the waiting is agonizing. When you go through a camera store to get your camera repaired, they are the customer and the only way you can get information is from them. Tuesday they told me it would probably be another week because my camera was "still on the repair line" from what they could see on line.

The call from K & S today came out of the blue. I hope your camera comes back to you as quickly as mine did to me.

Virginia
aka beaucamera