Just say status os Banding Noise In Japan.

In Japan, Some guy has banding noise problem.
Some one asks Nikon Service Center and gets answer.
However, Nikon Service Center's answer/action is not fixed yet.
Some staff said that we catch your claim of banding noise. Adjustments D200 at Nikon site will solve banding noise problem, other stuff said that It's fail. You needs repair.
Currently, Nikon Company have NEW YEAR Vacation unitl 05JAN2006.
Nikon Company have no anouncemant about D200's baniding noise.

You can find many log of banding noise in Japan user forum.
below list is one of big fourm of Nikon user forum in Japan.
(Forum Page)
http://www.nikon-d-slr.net/cgi-bin/forum/wforum.cgi

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D200 Banding Noise news

Emergency sofotware module was released
[AntiBanD200.8bf]
-photo shop software's module
-solve banding noise
-effect RAW data
-needs photoshop
-freeware
-No Nikon products
-No degress Nyquist Frequency
-Photo Shop Plug-in Module
-Require MSVCRT10.dll for WindowsXP

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