Double-exposed images (Matrix shots)

[4SHOT Sports]

Hello everyone this is my first posting and let me first say that I have been viewing the Forum for sometime now and really enjoy the great advice and comments that have been posted. I havea website 4SHOT Sports (www.4shotsports.com (http://www.4shotsports.com/)) where I cover a lot of high school and college sports, I. I have a Canon 10D that I have beening shooting with for about a year and a half.

Just over the last month or so I have been getting a lot of shots that look like they have been double exposed (double images like the Matrix) not every shot but more than enough to know that something is wrong. Just when I thought I had some great shots I reviewed them in my view finder and they looked double exposed.

I'm going to send it back to Canon to have it serviced.

Any ideal what is going on. I shoot with a Canon AF 85 1.8, Sigma 20-70 2.8 and a Canon IS 70-300 4.0 lens in continus mode. I use Scandisk (128 and 256) media cards.

Thank you in advance for any responses.

[Cadwell]

Can you post a sample so we can see what you mean?

[HKFEVER]

Make sure ask Canon to add a button that can turn on and off this additional feature in all DSLR.

[pierrot]

Funny that I was just wandering if it would be possible to make multiple exposures on a single image with my 20D, as I could do with my EOS-5 film SLR.
Sometimes it's real fun to do, especially at night. I mean : as far as you choose to make multiple exposure, uh ? ;-)

[Imperitus]

You can make infinit exposures... with digital post proccessing. :)
Seriously though the closest I've figured out 'in camera' with my 20D is long exposures and firing off multiple flashes manualy... you can achieve some fun results.

[Persian-Rice]

Hahah, I was also hoping Canon would let us double expose on these dSLRs soon. I guess I would want the choice of switching it off though.............

[CyberDyneSystems]

What Camera?

[steven]

Are you using flash? Could be you are getting ghosts from available light with the primary image coming from the flash.

[4SHOT Sports]

Here are examples of the photos I'm talking about.

[4SHOT Sports]

I was not trying to do this and I did not use a flash. I'm really worried that I'm going to loose more good shots if I don't have my 10D checked out.

[Jon]

First guess, assuming that the camera was in landscape orientation, would be that you're getting shutter bounce. Are you noticing a tendency to overexposure toward the top of the image in more uniformly-lit (outdoors, for instance) shots?

[CyberDyneSystems]

Is there any chance it was luck?
Ie: you were shooting and somone elses strobes were going off?

Stupid idea I guess...

[4SHOT Sports]

This just started happening 3 weeks ago. I never had this happen , i was not looking for this affect.

[4SHOT Sports]

I really think there is a problem with my camera. If you go to my website you will not see any photos like that unless I used some graphic software to do it.

[JATPhotos]

I had a similar problem with my D-30 a few years back, it started like your samples and it got real worse. I sent it to Canon and they fixed it, they said it was a stuck shutter. It cost me a couple of hundred dollars to fix since it was out of warranty. My son still uses it and has had no more problems.

[RichardtheSane]

Can you post the exif please, makes it easier to see :)

[4SHOT Sports]

I would be glad to but I'm not sure what exif means, sorry.