Wierd colours on D30 shots

[John Hargreaves]

Hi all, this is my first post, having arrived here in a search for an answer to my problem. I've recently experienced a puzzling phenomenon when taking shots on my D30. Some images are all psychedelic colours, in a kind of posterised effect. Sometimes it only affects a strip along the image, sometimes the whole image.
I have never had the problem on a microdrive, but it has happened several times with type I compact flash cards.
I'm wondering whether it might be;
a) camera fault
b) CF card fault
c) anything to do with the formatting of the cards
d) something obvious I'm missing completely

Has anyone ever experienced a similar problem? If the written description of the problem doesn't ring any bells, I'll post an image. Having done a search of this forum, am I right in thinking I have to upload the images to some kind of web space first and then post a link rather than simply attaching the image?

Thanks for any advice.

[PacAce]

John Hargreaves wrote:
Hi all, this is my first post, having arrived here in a search for an answer to my problem. I've recently experienced a puzzling phenomenon when taking shots on my D30. Some images are all psychedelic colours, in a kind of posterised effect. Sometimes it only affects a strip along the image, sometimes the whole image.
I have never had the problem on a microdrive, but it has happened several times with type I compact flash cards.
I'm wondering whether it might be;
a) camera fault
b) CF card fault
c) anything to do with the formatting of the cards
d) something obvious I'm missing completely

Has anyone ever experienced a similar problem? If the written description of the problem doesn't ring any bells, I'll post an image. Having done a search of this forum, am I right in thinking I have to upload the images to some kind of web space first and then post a link rather than simply attaching the image?

Thanks for any advice.

I forget where I saw it but I know there was another post with a similar problem. It turned out to be the CF card itself. Have you tried another CF card, maybe from a different manufacturer? If the images are OK with the microdrive, then it can't be the camera.

[Roger_Cavanagh]

Sounds like it might be files not being correctly saved.

I'd reformat the suspect cards, but test them thoroughly before any critical use. If it happens again, get a refund, if they're new. As PacAce says, since the MD works OK, it's probably not the camera.

Regards,

[John Hargreaves]

This could be bad..it's now doing it on the majority of shots and on several different cards. When I tried the CF cards in another camera they worked fine, which suggests a very poorly D30. When it does this thing, the image is like a tone separation posterised effect, in mostly greens pinks and purples. It actually looks really good in one sense, but the camera is unusable for 'straight' shots. I've recently returned from spain where I took hundreds of shots on the microdrive without a single problem. I didn't have an occurence of the problem before this trip. Surely the airport x-rays can't have killed it could they?
I signed up on the fotopic.net site to try and post some examples here, but that site keeps giving error messages saying the file format (.jpg) is not supported!I also tried boomspeed, but they don't do free space any more due to abuse of the service.
So it's just one of those weeks.
Does anyone have any suggestions of some way I can quickly post a pic on this site to show everyone what this wierd effect looks like?
thanks, John H

[John Hargreaves]

I've just tried fotopic for the umpteenth time and guess what - now it works. Don't you just love computers.
Anyway, this shows how the effect often looks - sometimes its all across the image, sometimes a partial effect like this one. The one in the middle is what it's supposed to look like.
http://gallery20448.fotopic.net/show_collection.php?id=51866

[cubfan]

John, I've had this happen to me once. It was on a Dane Electric card and I have since gotten rid of that card. Hasn't happened since. It happened on a D30 or D60...can't remember which.