Nikon D3 sensor fault maybe?

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I have noticed an issue with my D3 recently. Every now and then (maybe 1 in 100 shots) I get a shot that has magenta/pink banding obscuring the bottom third of the image. Now what's particularly strange about this is that on lightroom, these files will initially show a preview image that looks fine, it is only when lightroom does it's proper rendering that the issue appears.

I need to do a bit more investigating as to whether it's all lenses or just one or just one memory card effected but thought I'd just initially find out whether anybody has seen a similar issue before?
 
Had a D700 and D3 for a few years and experience no problem. I think you answer your own question, test the camera with another lens and memory card to see does the problem is still their.
 
badboy1984 said:
Had a D700 and D3 for a few years and experience no problem. I think you answer your own question, test the camera with another lens and memory card to see does the problem is still their.
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Cheers. Just read a thread somewhere else that may point towards a card reader issue. Going to test that theory later.

ETA this thread seems to demonstrate exact same issue.
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1476996
 
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gad-westy said:
Cheers. Just read a thread somewhere else that may point towards a card reader issue. Going to test that theory later.

ETA this thread seems to demonstrate exact same issue.
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1476996
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Lets hope is only the card that is causing the issue. Card is easily replace if that is the problem. D3 is a robust camera, most of them is ok and will continue to run even if you burn it ...... lol
 
badboy1984 said:
Lets hope is only the card that is causing the issue. Card is easily replace if that is the problem. D3 is a robust camera, most of them is ok and will continue to run even if you burn it ...... lol
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I suspect the card reader but we'll see. The d3 is on 300k shutter actuations and still going strong. Touch wood!
 
gad-westy said:
I have noticed an issue with my D3 recently. Every now and then (maybe 1 in 100 shots) I get a shot that has magenta/pink banding obscuring the bottom third of the image. Now what's particularly strange about this is that on lightroom, these files will initially show a preview image that looks fine, it is only when lightroom does it's proper rendering that the issue appears.

I need to do a bit more investigating as to whether it's all lenses or just one or just one memory card effected but thought I'd just initially find out whether anybody has seen a similar issue before?
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I think the initial rendering is the jpeg, and when it finally renders it's the RAW so it suggests an issue with RAW reading/writing.
 
I would also say card/reader.
 
I bet it's the card.
 
Cheers all. I did a little experimenting last night with 100 or so images saved across 2x CF cards, identical raw files on both cards. When I imported card 1 from the card reader, I got 3 images showing this issue. On the other card I got 2 images showing the issue but they were completely different images. I then tried an import from cable directly between camera and mac, and got 1 image showing the issue on card 2, all fine on card 1. Then tried it on a different USB port and all were fine. Tried that port with card reader, all fine. So, it looks like it might be an issue with 1 USB port. Not quite what I was expecting.
 
gad-westy said:
Cheers all. I did a little experimenting last night with 100 or so images saved across 2x CF cards, identical raw files on both cards. When I imported card 1 from the card reader, I got 3 images showing this issue. On the other card I got 2 images showing the issue but they were completely different images. I then tried an import from cable directly between camera and mac, and got 1 image showing the issue on card 2, all fine on card 1. Then tried it on a different USB port and all were fine. Tried that port with card reader, all fine. So, it looks like it might be an issue with 1 USB port. Not quite what I was expecting.
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Well done. Just shows that eliminating things step by steps helps to pin the problem down.
 
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