"incompatable image" when viewing pic on camera?

[hellmaster]

I have a Canon SD950 IS. When I put a pic back on the sd card to view on the camera I get the incompatible image icon from the camera. I would like to copy a previously taken pic back to the sd card so that I can view it on the camera.

Anyway I can do this?

Thanks, John

[Micky Daeus]

It all depends on whether the picture has been modified on a PC or taken with another camera and uploaded to the card, particularly if the resolution is too high.
This occasionally happens on some images 'in camera' for the thumbnail across a range of digitals. No idea why though.

[hellmaster]

I am talking about a pic taken with the same camera then transfered to the computer and renamed only. I don't modify them any other way.

So if it is renamed with ZoomBrowser EX v6 and not modified it cant be put back on the sd card and viewed with the camera?

Anyone know why? Thats stupid in my opinion.

[rpolitsr]

I can see in my Pro1 even some modified picture as long as the name follows Canon rules, i.e.: IMG_1234.jpg. It refuses to show the same image renamed.

[hellmaster]

Yeah, I realized that so I renamed it back to that format, but it still did NOT make it viewable.

[hellmaster]

anyone ... anyone?

[Jon]

Did you possibly rotate the picture in the PC, either as part of the download or later (in Explorer, for instance)? And not only the file name but the directory structure need to be correct.

[hellmaster]

I do use the ZoomBrowser EX v6 to rotate pics. what exactly has to be correct about the name and directory structure?
thanks.

[Jon]

\DCIM\###CANON\IMG_####.JPG where # is a digit.

[rpolitsr]

\DCIM\###CANON\IMG_####.JPG where # is a digit.

I'm not sure why you need to put images back to the camera's card, hellmaster, but Jon is right.

Below the 'complete tale' by Canon :)

http://sites.google.com/site/rpolitsr/r_polit_5/pictures/miscelanea/CanonFolderStructure.gif

[Criddy]

Same problem as mine.....what I was trying to do was upload images from my PC to the camera (images taken by the camera incidently) and then view on the camera or more importantly use the camera to provide a slide show on a TV. Not everybody has a home PC or laptop available, eg my mother aged 88!
I can't understand why Canon have decided to legislate against this! It seems an obvious use of a small portable digital device! Perhaps Canon will realise this and update the firmware accordingly. BTW Canon have not replied to my query on the above so they either don't see the problem or don't care.....do they view forums like this?

[Jon]

It's basically a matter of not being able to design the camera to be able to display any and every file size and format that people may end up with after editing. Your computer's much bigger than your camera - it has room to store and memory to run the programs needed to decode image files (and, yes, there are differences in different versions of even standard types like JPEG). Your camera's smaller than the hard disk on your computer, and it's got to be able to convert the raw sensor data to a standard JPEG (of, you'll note, a specific version) as well as play that back to a printer, TV or on its own LCD. It's really a question of how much they can cram into one little box. Understandably, they've chosen to emphasize the taking of photographs in their design.

SanDisk, among others, makes a file viewer that'll play back images from memory cards to the TV. And video recorders are increasingly coming with memory slots for either cards or flash drives. If playing back your photos anywhere and everywhere even after you've edited them is important, look at those solutions, or at something like the Epson P3000 or its kin which hold massive amounts of photos on a hard drive and can play them back either on the device's 4" screen or on your TV.

[teekay]

I also sometimes need to play back images on someone else's TV where they don't want to huddle round a computer screen to see them - or maybe where there's no computer handy. If that is your goal, then I'm surprised nobody has suggested just burning the JPEGs onto a DVD, since most computers seem to have DVD/CD burners these days.

My DVD player (not a fancy one by any means) attached to my TV automatically plays JPEGs back as a slide show when you put such a DVD in. Of course if you want to make a slide show more professional with titles etc. then you need extra software...

[hellmaster]

thanks for the info guys.

[DigitalDisaster]

Not everyone may have a DVD burner but maybe you have a CD burner. Most (not all) DVD players will play back the photos from a CD burned on a regular CD burner. My cheap Apex DVD player will.