Long Shutter Cycle Nikon D3200

[Destin]

Maybe you have a lot of image-processing controls set...dynamic range optimizer, noise reduction come to mind. A two-button reset could set you back to normal.

This. Specifically, long exposure noise reduction is horrendous at this.

 

[wfooshee3]

He didn't mention that he was taking long exposures, but he also didn't know how to set the shutter speed, it sounds like. Anyway, yes, by default, a 5-sceond exposure will lock the camera for 5 seconds while it takes a "dark" image, and anything that appears on the dark image is noise and digitally removed from the actual exposure. Unless he's gotten his shutter extraordinarily slow somehow, I'd doubt that long-eposure NR is the cause. Possible, though.