Has anyone ever had this error code before on their D70 or D70s: r03? It is displayed in the box showing haw many frames I have left. I couldn't find it in my owner's manual at all. It displays when I try to take a picture, and it won't let me take one. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
But my camera won't let me take any shots. When I press the shutter release, it just displays that, and that't it. And when it happened, I had only taken three photos so far, and not very close together.
OK, I know that r03 is about the buffer, but, have you tried changing the lens? I am just asking because I had a similar thing happen a while back, and just couldn't figure out what was going on. I changed to a different lens, and everything worked fine. I put on the original lens and no problems either.
It's probably far fetched, but it doesn't hurt to try ....
Well, for some odd reason, I left the camera at home today instead of bringing it in -- big mistake on my part -- but I did have the wife try to take the lens off, replace it, and even try a different lens, and it is still giving the same code. I'll try it again when I get home, but if there are any other suggestions, please let me know.
Perhaps then there is a hard fault in the buffer circuitry or in the chip/memory itself.
I wonder if maybe I accidentally shut the camera off when it was still recording to the CF card, and that did it. I don't know for sure, but that is always a possibility too. I wonder how that can be fixed or checked. Any ideas on that too?
I was taking long night shots, and could have been careless and shut it off on accident during the noise reduction phase, and so maybe the CF card got fried, then I took a few photos in the camera memory, but they couldn't be written to the card, so they are taking up the internal memory.
The message board I just read said basically the same as these type of errors for Canon:
Remove lense, replace
Remove battery, replace
Change shooting mode - try full auto, jpeg not raw
Reset camera to factory defaults
Replace/format CF card
Usually if you physically turn off the camera during a wrtie operation, the camera will not actually power down until the write is completed. At least it is this way with Canon.
Try removing the lens and running cold water on the mirror. This will generaly fix any error code on the camera. However there is a small draw back with this...
JUST KIDDING DO NOT DO THIS!!!!
I had the same problem and replaced my CF card. I haven't had the error since. Seriously don't do the water thing though.
I spoke to Nikon. They said send it in for repair. This has been an issue with them on the 50,70&80. the warranty is good for one year.
they could NOT fix it over the phone even with all the resets etc...
Joe Photo
I spoke to Nikon. They said send it in for repair.
They say that for everything. You could tell them that you broke your R index finger and now the shutter button does push down right, and they would tell you to send it in. :)
Chris (CEJ) has shown you the steps to take. and adding the checking your aperture ring.
I see that this is an old thread; however, I am having the same problem with my D70. I see that there was no conclusion/solution so that's a bit frustrating. I tried most of the recommended solutions mentioned in this thread and still I get an r03 shown regardless of the camera mode selected, aperature ring setting, memory card reinserted, lense re-attached. Certainly there is a Nikon guru who understand what's happening. Anyone?
I see that this is an old thread; however, I am having the same problem with my D70. I see that there was no conclusion/solution so that's a bit frustrating. I tried most of the recommended solutions mentioned in this thread and still I get an r03 shown regardless of the camera mode selected, aperature ring setting, memory card reinserted, lense re-attached. Certainly there is a Nikon guru who understand what's happening. Anyone?
PM the OP and asked what happened? Perhaps not....looks like he switched to Canon!
Same problem here but I'm on d70s..... Seems that the fstop/aperture won't register therefore renders the camera unable to shoot. It doesn't happen all the time. They advised me to swap out lenses at a camera shop to determine whether its a lens or camera issue. Argh.
I had this issue for a time. It was definitely the aperture ring issue at that point, however you may wish to also try taking the battery out for a time to reset the camera and open the menu functions to complete a reset all settings. Won't hurt to try and may save you the hassle of sending it off.
