What went wrong here?

[Jenx]

This was the first of 5 photos I took this morning, the last 4 were fine...what went wrong?



Martin.

[Bigdrift]

when did you last format your memory card ??

[Simpo Two]

when did you last see your father ??

(sorry, it's the gin)

[4hero]

I like it, cool abstract macro type shot

[Jenx]

4hero said:

I like it, cool abstract macro type shot

Mmmm......I think I might frame it and try to sell it for thousands

[AndWhy]

An old Fuji of mine used to drop a shot like that in every 1000 shots or so. Never worked out why.

But that's no help, is it...

[Jenx]

It's done it again...not happy!

[m12_nathan]

Do they show ok on the screen on the camera?

[Jenx]

m12_nathan said:

Do they show ok on the screen on the camera?

They do...and they also look OK on Bridge, only going like this when opened in PS.

[4hero]

have you tried removing/re-installing photoshop? It could be a corrupt profile or something..

[m12_nathan]

Jenx said:

m12_nathan said:

Do they show ok on the screen on the camera?

They do...and they also look OK on Bridge, only going like this when opened in PS.

Email me a raw file if you want - I'll see if it opens in lightroom?

[ThatPhilBrettGuy]

RAW or JPG? Looks like a memory card going duff to me.

[EmmaP]

Does your camera need a firmware update? I had a few problems like this. I recall having a firmware update at time. I also threw the CF card away when it happened a second time. I also switched to SanDisk CF cards and haven't had problems. I reformat my cards usually once a job is complete.

[Jenx]

m12_nathan said:

Jenx said:

m12_nathan said:

Do they show ok on the screen on the camera?

They do...and they also look OK on Bridge, only going like this when opened in PS.

Email me a raw file if you want - I'll see if it opens in lightroom?

It happens in Lightroom too.

ThatPhilBrettGuy said:

RAW or JPG? Looks like a memory card going duff to me.

Raw...this is a three week old Sandisk 4 Gig card

EmmaP said:

Does your camera need a firmware update? I had a few problems like this. I recall having a firmware update at time. I also threw the CF card away when it happened a second time. I also switched to SanDisk CF cards and haven't had problems. I reformat my cards usually once a job is complete.

Firmware updated about 6 weeks ago and is the latest...

[m12_nathan]

You tried it on different computers?

[ThatPhilBrettGuy]

I'll still vote card problem. Dig out some flash card testing software and see what it thinks. I bet it reports a duff sector or alike.

[Altrezia]

Jenx said:

Raw...this is a three week old Sandisk 4 Gig card

I've only ever had 1 CF card fail.. it was a 2 week old Sandisk!

[Scho]

i've never had a problem with a CF card.

i have had problems with a fire wire card reader that would show as ejected on my mac, then tell me i hadn't ejected it after i took it out

it made some of the images go like your examples.

try a different car reader in future, not sure what can be done to save your pics

[rustyspit]

I had something that looked very similar once when I was downloading the pics via USB directly from the camera and the camera battery failed part-way through. The jpeg 'preview' that was embedded in the files was OK - hence they looked undamaged in some photo browsers, but the raw data itself was lost.

This doesn't sound like exactly the same problem, but it does look like it could be some sort of filesystem corruption or card-write problem. Unfortunately it doesn't look good for recovering your photos.

[Jenx]

Could it be me turning off the camera before the RAW file is written fully on the CF? It's the only explaination I can think of...

Martin.