Question on EOS 30D

[dsmithfl]

I'm a newbie and had a question. Most of the time when I take pics it takes the pic but I also get a second on that is just a black pic. I just delete them, but what a hassle. What is the reason for this? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks:D

[pcDigiMan]

How do you download your pictures. Plug your CF card into a reader? Or a cable to your camera and if so what software do you use on your PC?

[Jim_T]

And what are the file names of these 'pics' ???

[Mr. Clean]

I'm stumped ??? That's a new one for me!

[Tee Why]

Is your auto exposure bracket on or perhaps the auto advance on the shutter release?

[Leandro Bento]

R u indoors using flash? If so, and the cameras drive mode is set to high speed, the shutter button becomes very sensitive and it will fire at burst mode. The black pic could be the photo where the flash didnt go off. If that's not the case, forget about what I said.
Leo

[Tukhachevskii]

Are you shooting JPEG and Raw?

[NickAA]

You don't have long-exposure compensation turned on, do you?

[Jim G]

I'd be guessing that it's the flash issue that L. Bento mentioned... having the camera set to continuous drive and shooting off two frames at once mainly lit by flash.. the recycle time would not be adequate for it to fire again for the second frame and thus you get a black image if it's dark enough.

Or are you taking shots with the lens cap on sometimes? ;)

[dsmithfl]

You guys are awesome! Thanks for the replys. More info... this happens inside or outside. I can preview the blacked out pic in the LCD screen right after a pic (it takes a good pic and then a blank one). I believe I just don't have the right settings on. I will try your responses and let you all know when I find out the what fixes the problem. Thanks again, great forums!!!

LOL Jim G... "or are you taking shots with the lens cap on sometimes?"

[Tee Why]

Hmmmmmmmmm,
I'm leaning to the noise reduction feature being on as well.

[Jon]

ANR doesn't take a second picture in the sense of creating a second file. It runs a second, blank, exposure, which is subtracted from the original during the internal processing; the composite is then written to file (and so much for the notion of RAW being totally unprocessed!).

What drive mode are you in? Does this happen when you're shooting in natural light? Only with flash? What exposure mode are you using?

[dsmithfl]

Went out to shoot me son's football game. There was a guy there that had a D5 and D20. He looked at my settings and found the camera to be shooting at 1/50 when it should have been shooting at 1/300 (I think is what he said). In other words the speed shooting was very very slow and stead of really really fast. He tried a different flash card and that didn't make a difference. When I first got the camera it worked fine. For some reason, now it is slow and about every other pics taken is out black (but not all the time). He suggested I download the lastest firmware software. Any other ideas now?

[Jon]

What drive mode are you in? Does this happen when you're shooting in natural light? Only with flash? What exposure mode are you using????

[Hermeto]

My first idea is that you start answering questions people already asked you rather than telling us what some guy told you.
Without your answers, it will be really difficult to pinpoint the cause of your problem.

[dsmithfl]

sorry about that :oops: (He did seem to have a couple of nice cameras and lens though:lol: )

Shooting - RAW

Custom Functions - O1 - 1, 04 - 3, Everything else at 0

Drive Mode - High Speed continuous

Natural light or with flash (don't have a external flash though).

Exposure Mode? alservo (Compensation is at standard)

And battery is fully charged.

Hope that is helpful.:D