Black line along the side of my photos ??

[lavagirl03]

Hello there!

In some of my photos- in the left hand corner there is often times a vertical black/blue line down the side. I cant seem to figure out why this happens. Is anyone familiar with this ?

I have a Nikon D70 and the lens that this seems to occur with is a Sigma 28-80mm.

I just snapped this photo below so you can see the line.

Thank you for any response!
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[OsmosisStudios]

Your sensor is starting to fail. The D70 is... long in the tooth.

[lavagirl03]

oh, man that sucks! thank you for the info !

[i speak in math]

Originally Posted by OsmosisStudios

Your sensor is starting to fail. The D70 is... long in the tooth.

I don't know if I would go that far. Certainly there are some dead pixels, but every digital will get them. You happen to have a bad row down there at the bottom. If you can run a pixel mapping feature on the camera, it should map them out as bad and fill them with adjacent pixels.

[lavagirl03]

WIll the owners manual instruct me how to run a pixel mapping or would i need to contact Nikon ?

[i speak in math]

If the camera can do it (allows the user to do it) then the manual would tell you. If not, you'd have to send it in.

On my Pentax K20D, its in the same menu as formatting the memory, or running a dust removal shake.