Anybody Seen This Before?

[jbtaylor]

It has shown up with more than 1 CF card. It must be the camera.

[Javelin]

yes I've sen posts on DPR with the same sort of thing but it was usually the cards or the card reader that was the culprit. have you got a memory stick to try? how often is that happening? On those cards the data is written through the pins on the right side of the card but addressing is more the middle/top of the card maybe there is a bent pin in the camera along the top row or the right side of the card and it's causing write or read errors ? is the picture actually damaged does it display properly on the camera and not the comuter after transfer?

[Dusty]

It happened once on the wife's P&S. I thought just a failure to properly write. Never saw it again.

Dusty

[Dr. Harout]

I had this problem with a fake CF card.

[aster]

Hi jbtaylor,

Yes, I had the same experience about a month ago when I was taking sequential and continous photos with very small time intervals. To clarify, it did not happen at continous shooting mode but at single frames when I pressed the shutter release in short intervals only and later completely disappeared. I think the buffer was full and there was a problem with writing to the memory card.

I'll upload some if I can find them in my archives in the next few hours.

Yildiz

Edit: I checked but apparently I deleted them shortly after I shot the photos so they would't consume much space.

[jbtaylor]

Thanks to all for the feedback. This has happened the last 3 times I have used the camera. The pins look to be in order but it is had to see with the naked eye. Some other examples:

[Dusty]

Have you tried reformatting the cards while in the camera? Sometimes the cameras don't like cards reformatted in PCs.

Dusty

[pakodominguez]

Do you see the error on the camera's screen too,or only on your computer? If it looks good on the camera, probably the problem was the transfert to your HHDD -restart your computer and transfert your pics again. Or get a different USB/Firewire cable, or card reader.

I hope this help.

[jbtaylor]

Never noticed these characteristics on the camera screen. I will turn my attention to the computer and transfer equipment.
Thanks for the suggestion Pako.

[aster]

Hi,

When I experienced these flaws during shooting, I could see them on the camera's LCD screen. That's how I detected them and slowed down on my shooting intervals to ease it on the buffer and the memory card, and never saw it happen during the rest of the shooting with the same card on the camera.

Yildiz