Originally posted by tpx60s Hi ChipB- thanks for the offer! I already have the service manual for the istdl so I am good. I really appreciate it though.
sgtkashim how long did you put into mirror lock up for? The person I bought it from said that he had it in storage for a couple of months and it worked when he turned it on later then it just started doing the black pics.
By mirror lockup I meant the sensor cleaning mode - it turns off the sensor, raises the mirror and opens the shutter. I don't think length of time has anything to do with it. I used that to test the shutter - make sure it was actually opening. It went black about a week after I bought it, though, while I was riding the train in to work.
I think if you had a bad card bay, it wouldn't even record black images - the fact that it's recording anything at all (and the fact that it plays back images) says to me there isn't anything wrong with the card bay. I'd check the shutter. If the shutter's fine, the sensor could have lost a line somewhere... but I think that would generate an error in firmware - you'd see an error displayed on the back LCD.