Well, far from being "pointless" and "invaild" as many commented, the informal poll I started seems to have shown a MAJOR b/f issue with D70's. With over 80 cases repeorted on this forum alone any sensible extrapolation of the data, i.e. there would need to be 8000 D70 users posting here for the b/f issue to be less than 1% of cameras, shows that Nikon have a problem they should be owning up to.
A 1%+ failure rate at sale in modern consumer electronics is about 10 to 100 times too high by usual ACHIEVED standards. Most Japanese companies AIM for "five nines" (i.e. 99.999%) quality standards, 1% failure rate is 2 nines quality (99%), or 1000 times worse than that.
BTW,my guess,and its only a guess, is that there are about 3000 D70 owbers here on the forum, that would imply a b/f problem rate of over 2.5% - totally unacceptable.
AND - for all the b/f doubters -YES that does also imply about 2,920 cameras that are fine!
A 1%+ failure rate at sale in modern consumer electronics is about 10 to 100 times too high by usual ACHIEVED standards. Most Japanese companies AIM for "five nines" (i.e. 99.999%) quality standards, 1% failure rate is 2 nines quality (99%), or 1000 times worse than that.
BTW,my guess,and its only a guess, is that there are about 3000 D70 owbers here on the forum, that would imply a b/f problem rate of over 2.5% - totally unacceptable.
AND - for all the b/f doubters -YES that does also imply about 2,920 cameras that are fine!
