What happened here?

I gave my wife an XTI with a 28-300 Tamron Di VC (whatever). The first picture she took with it has multiple levels of focus, some shifting and other things I can't explain. She was in the totally automatic mode. (1/60, f5.6, 109mm at iso400). The vibration reduction was on.

I can't come up with an explanation for why it looks like this. There has been one picture in the next 10 or so that has a similar change, everything else since has been normal. Any ideas?

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file corruption? maybe your mem card is broken?

jbuk1975 wrote in post #4590050
file corruption? maybe your mem card is broken?

agree.
Rob.

Well, she's too young to have modeled for Picasso. So I guess it's a bad CF card...

-js

I agree with the rest, in that it's probably a corruption of the file due to the CF card. I've seem similar problems before and replacing the card made the issue go away.

that's the one thing I didn't think of. It's a Walmart 29.95 2G card. I guess I got what I paid for.

pixelmechanic wrote in post #4590235
that's the one thing I didn't think of. It's a Walmart 29.95 2G card. I guess I got what I paid for.

FWIW, you can sometimes get a 2 GB Sandisk Ultra II for $20 or thereabouts. I recently bought a couple at Costco.

-js

number six wrote in post #4590258
FWIW, you can sometimes get a 2 GB Sandisk Ultra II for $20 or thereabouts. I recently bought a couple at Costco.

-js

I got two 2GB Ultra II cards at Radio Shack a week after Thanksgiving for $17.99 each. Still kicking myself for not getting 2 or 3 more!

Did you format the CF card in the camera before taking the pictures? You might try this before you trash the card...

I guess that I wasn't aware of the fact Wal-Mart had 2GB cards. Well, at least, not store branded.

My external hard drive did similar coruption on many of my images

Hi All

I have no answer but it's an interesting problem - I can see it looks like file corruption of some sort - What makes you all suggest the memory Card? Could the image processing software be at fault when it opens the image?

When the problem occurs does it show up on the playback screen on the camera?

One of the things they stressed at Nikon School is don't erase your cards, reformat every time to get good performance out of cards.

At least 30% of the 150 or so in the room were Canon shooters, btw. When is Canon going to offer seminars for us, there is obviously demand.

Try reformatting it, first in the computer, then on the camera. Use fat32 on the computer, not NTFS. It might straighten things out and make the card useable.

^^^ Listen to Tom!
Do it before trashing the CF card.