D70s banding/stripes visible in images

The D50 has an option for "Noise reduction for long exposures" which should help with just these sorts of long-exposure thermal noise problems. Does the D70 have that feature, and did you use it in your example?

Failing that, I bet you could remove much of that noise by taking a 30-second exposure in total darkness, and subtracting it from the cave photo in your favorite picture editing program. This is a pretty common noise-reduction technique. Ideally, you'd want your "dark frame" to be taken under as close as possible to the same conditions, but a surprising amount of that noise is probably repeatable.

This picture was taken at 1/1000s, f/6, 70mm with the kit lens. Note the horizontal bands across the sky.



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Good advice Mark...I personally prefer to use Noise Ninja for the pics that matter...and the cave picture, in this case, doesn't really matter

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Mark Bessey said:

The D50 has an option for "Noise reduction for long exposures"
which should help with just these sorts of long-exposure thermal
noise problems. Does the D70 have that feature, and did you use it
in your example?

Failing that, I bet you could remove much of that noise by taking a
30-second exposure in total darkness, and subtracting it from the
cave photo in your favorite picture editing program. This is a
pretty common noise-reduction technique. Ideally, you'd want your
"dark frame" to be taken under as close as possible to the same
conditions, but a surprising amount of that noise is probably
repeatable.

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I havent seen any other banding issues.

if you look at the wall to her left you can see more. It was worse but, I ran it through noise ninja.

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Hey Guys, I found this post while looking for problems with my D70 and the banding, stripes, noise lines or whatever the real name is and I though I was the only one with this problem.

I've gotten those noisy stripes in teh dark areas of all my pictures lately so I don't know if some one have tried to open the files using Capture 4.4 and see if the stripes are still there since I use Adobe only and I don't have capture.

I've tried my new SB-800 wireless commander (which is awesome) and using a set up of lights with my SB-800 and SB-600s I took some portraits and in all the dark areas of the model's head I got the stripes but I forget about using the noise reduction tool in Photsohop CS2 because the noisy stripes become a bunch of ugly dark red stains.

I will have to take my D70 to service anyways because in the LCD display on top of the camera, I've lost all the WB icons and one of the numbers of pictures left is partly missing as well... Do you guys think they would also try to fix the banding issue as well....?

Claudio