Why did this happen?

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Does anyone know what causes this? Has anyone ever had this
problem?

I have had it happen two or three times with different
cameras. Not sure if it was the same CF card or not because the images
were months apart.

ON the camera and in the original image the red tint on the right
raised half was not there at all. The original image had the same color
for both halves which made it impossible to see at the time I made the
image. Also in the original image the raised half was not raised this
high. For some reason when I copied it from hard drive to hard drive it
changed the color on the raised side and also raised it more than in the
original downloaded image. Can't quite figure this one out.

Any thoughts? :scratch

ivar

it seems like you have embedded an image directly from your online mail account. None of us can see that image. Can you host it somewhere and link it that way?

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ivar wrote:

it seems like you have embedded an image directly from your online mail account. None of us can see that image. Can you host it somewhere and link it that way?

OOps... sorry about that. Here it is

pathfinder

PineapplePhoto wrote:

Does anyone know what causes this? Has anyone ever had this
problem?

I have had it happen two or three times with different
cameras. Not sure if it was the same CF card or not because the images
were months apart.

ON the camera and in the original image the red tint on the right
raised half was not there at all. The original image had the same color
for both halves which made it impossible to see at the time I made the
image. Also in the original image the raised half was not raised this
high. For some reason when I copied it from hard drive to hard drive it
changed the color on the raised side and also raised it more than in the
original downloaded image. Can't quite figure this one out.

Any thoughts?

If this is happening with more than one camera body, and with the same Compact FLash chip, I strongly suspect a defective CF chip. What brand is the chip?
Let's see if anyone else has another opinion.

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pathfinder wrote:

If this is happening with more than one camera body, and with the same Compact FLash chip, I strongly suspect a defective CF chip. What brand is the chip?
Let's see if anyone else has another opinion.

Sandisk II

Scott_Quier

If you are shooting JPG, this is a corrupted JPG file - I've seen it before when downloading images off of various news groups. The real question is what is causing this.

Because you have seen it with different cameras and the chance that this would be caused by a camera at all leads me to believe that it's not the camera.

It's not clear from your post whether or not you've seen the disjoint in the camera LCD. If you are unsure or if you are certain that it's not seen in the camera LCD, the I would suspect that your problem is to be found in the copy process - from the card to your computer. This could be caused by either the card reader hardware, the computer, or the card itself (I would suspect the card first).

However, if you are seeing it in the LCD of the camera after the image has been written to the card - well then it has to be the card.

To my mind, the most likely culprit is the card. If so, I see just a couple of ways to solve the problem.

Were it me, shooting professionally, it's really easy - toss all suspect cards and get new ones. This is not as expensive as it once was. I have something like 30GB of CF cards and if I had this problem crop up twice, there would not be a third time. Shooting professionally one can't afford to have "the image" ruined by sub-par equipment; not when a career is riding on the line.

On the other hand, if you are not shooting professionally, I would mark your cards and keep careful records and/or carefully inspect all photos each time you shoot, looking for the problem to appear. With careful records, you can identify the problem child and dispose of it.

InsuredDisaster

I don't think its your gear. I think sometimes, you get people with split personalities.

digismile

I had this problem years ago on a generic card and it was indeed a problem with the card.

In this case, I would just contact Sandisk. They have a limited lifetime warranty on all their cards.


I have used Sandisk for many years and have yet to have a failure (CF Format). I'm sure getting a replacement for your defective card won't be an issue.

dangin

as others have mentioned, this is likely a bad flash card. have you tried others? how consistent is this problem?