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Daya
5th of July 2005 (Tue), 12:29
Hello everyone,

I noticed a strange problem with my 20D this morning. on Sunday the 3rd of July I tokk about 34 pictures in the RAW mode. when I downloaded the images I noticed that two of the images were JPG and not RAW...Also these two images were in the middle of the whole lot. I remember never to have changed the format from RAW to JPG during the whole day...the rest of the images were fine and were in RAW format.My camera is a week old with the latest firmware on it...

My question is , is there anyone else who has had a similar problem. this is strange to me because the camera suddenly decided to save two images in the JPG format...and changed back again to RAW format for the rest of the images ...I was using a 1GB Ultra II CF card completely formated before the days shoot...

Any help is appreciated ..

Thanks
Daya
IanC_UK
5th of July 2005 (Tue), 12:49
I have had this happen before, but it was my fault !

I switched to Auto mode from Tv, in auto it wont save raw images only JPG ! Are you certain you didnt switch to auto mode for the 2 shots ?
AjP
5th of July 2005 (Tue), 12:57
and me too, switch to auto and shot 3-4 pics in auto and when I was looking to file notice jpg and was really confused at first :)
Daya
5th of July 2005 (Tue), 12:59
thanks a lot ! that could be the reason ! My wife took those two images and she is uses the Auto mode 80% of the time.

On the other hand Do you have any idea why does it not save the images in RAW when we use auto mode ?

thanks again
Daya
IanC_UK
5th of July 2005 (Tue), 12:59
and me too, switch to auto and shot 3-4 pics in auto and when I was looking to file notice jpg and was really confused at first :)

:lol: glad to see im not the only muppet ! LOL
IanC_UK
5th of July 2005 (Tue), 13:01
thanks a lot ! that could be the reason ! My wife took those two images and she is uses the Auto mode 80% of the time.

On the other hand Do you have any idea why does it not save the images in RAW when we use auto mode ?

thanks again
Daya

If you press the menu button in auto and try to change the resolution, it doesnt offer raw, only jpg as an option, it looks like Canon decided if you shooting in auto, you dont need RAW ! ;)
Daya
5th of July 2005 (Tue), 13:02
Does the same thing happen with the preset modes like landscape, portrait , ect ?

Daya
IanC_UK
5th of July 2005 (Tue), 13:06
Does the same thing happen with the preset modes like landscape, portrait , ect ?

Daya

Yes it happens on all the auto modes, only the manual modes allow raw images !
Daya
5th of July 2005 (Tue), 13:16
ok ! thanks for the input guys ...I cross checked the Exif data on those two images and it is infact taken in Auto mode...

thanks to you all !
Daya
IanC_UK
5th of July 2005 (Tue), 13:17
ok ! thanks for the input guys ...I cross checked the Exif data on those two images and it is infact taken in Auto mode...

thanks to you all !
Daya

Welcome! Glad you got it resolved ! :D
robertwgross
5th of July 2005 (Tue), 16:35
Yes it happens on all the auto modes, only the manual modes allow raw images !

Actually, it is the Creative Zone modes that allow RAW images. The Basic Zone modes allow only JPEG. This is something I discovered on the first day of using my 20D, which is different from how it worked on the older D60.

---Bob Gross---