robertfla
27th of March 2003 (Thu), 16:09
Hello!
I'm a brand new owner of a Canon G3. After months of trying to figure out which camera to purchase (sony, olympus or canon) I opted for the G3 since I'm a previous happy Canon owner.
I'm having a serious problem though which I hope someone can help me with. I'm going through my inital 'test' phase with my camera, taking a lot of test shots, and finding that about 15-20 percent of my pictures I take seem to be corrupted when transferred to my computer. When those 15-20% pics get transferred, I can not open them with any program! All the other pictures come out beautiful, and can be opened/viewed without problem.
I know it's not the CF card, since I use different ones. When the pictures transfer from the camera to my computer, about 15-20 percent come across as non-readable, however the properties of the non-readable file indicate .jpg. I know it's not my photo viewing programs, because I have tried all of the different ones to open them with (Adobe Photoshope, IFRAN, IE Explorer, Image Expert, Zoombrowser, etc.) So for some reason, a portion of the pictures appear to become corruputed, but the rest are fine! Another interesting fact is that I can view them on the camera via thumbnails, but when I try to download them to the computer, it's unreadable.
A couple more pieces of information:
1. Just for the sake of arguement, since I originally thought that the pictures 'some how' had been converted to RAW format, I attempted to just open those files with the Zoombrowser RAW editor, however it didn't recognize them as RAW. Going back to the properties, they all indicate that it is a .jpg file.
2. The picture settings I've been using are the manual setting primarly (P) and trying the other features from time to time i.e. Portrait view. I like to take a lot of B/W so I ususally use that feature as well. What is odd as well is that it seems to happen more when I'm switching between normal (no effects) and B/W. If I'm operating no effects, and switch to B/W, then then those pictures immediately following do not come out, even though the 'only' setting I change is to switch to B/W. 'However' with that being said, it has happened many times on color pics as well.
3. I am downloading the pics directly from the camera to the computer via USB, using Zoombrowser primarly to download.
I just don't understand what I could be doing wrong. I tend to think it is me, and not the camera since I know it's a great piece of equipment...but I'm not sure.
Can anyone help me?
Thanks!
Robert (new G3 user)
I'm a brand new owner of a Canon G3. After months of trying to figure out which camera to purchase (sony, olympus or canon) I opted for the G3 since I'm a previous happy Canon owner.
I'm having a serious problem though which I hope someone can help me with. I'm going through my inital 'test' phase with my camera, taking a lot of test shots, and finding that about 15-20 percent of my pictures I take seem to be corrupted when transferred to my computer. When those 15-20% pics get transferred, I can not open them with any program! All the other pictures come out beautiful, and can be opened/viewed without problem.
I know it's not the CF card, since I use different ones. When the pictures transfer from the camera to my computer, about 15-20 percent come across as non-readable, however the properties of the non-readable file indicate .jpg. I know it's not my photo viewing programs, because I have tried all of the different ones to open them with (Adobe Photoshope, IFRAN, IE Explorer, Image Expert, Zoombrowser, etc.) So for some reason, a portion of the pictures appear to become corruputed, but the rest are fine! Another interesting fact is that I can view them on the camera via thumbnails, but when I try to download them to the computer, it's unreadable.
A couple more pieces of information:
1. Just for the sake of arguement, since I originally thought that the pictures 'some how' had been converted to RAW format, I attempted to just open those files with the Zoombrowser RAW editor, however it didn't recognize them as RAW. Going back to the properties, they all indicate that it is a .jpg file.
2. The picture settings I've been using are the manual setting primarly (P) and trying the other features from time to time i.e. Portrait view. I like to take a lot of B/W so I ususally use that feature as well. What is odd as well is that it seems to happen more when I'm switching between normal (no effects) and B/W. If I'm operating no effects, and switch to B/W, then then those pictures immediately following do not come out, even though the 'only' setting I change is to switch to B/W. 'However' with that being said, it has happened many times on color pics as well.
3. I am downloading the pics directly from the camera to the computer via USB, using Zoombrowser primarly to download.
I just don't understand what I could be doing wrong. I tend to think it is me, and not the camera since I know it's a great piece of equipment...but I'm not sure.
Can anyone help me?
Thanks!
Robert (new G3 user)