Weird 1DmkII exposures

Hello all,

After taking a few hundred shots yesterday, I found a series of about 10 exposures that look pretty weird. I was in H burst at the time, and I thought my camera had died after I looked at the review shots. However, the rest of the exposures came out fine.

I remember someone else had posted a similar problem awhile ago, but now I forget what it was. I'm hoping it's just a memory card issue and not a shutter failure. The memory card at the time was a 4GB Extreme III. Any ideas? Thanks!

Attached are a few from the weird series

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What do the rest of the shots from the burst look like?

Pretty much the same. There was one or two with that big lighter spot; one had the spot a little higher in the frame.

Are you sure this isn't a reflection on the wall from the front element of the lens?

I don't think it was. I was shooting the Phillies parade and in the time frame this series came up, I was trying to get a shot of the police motorcade.

Oh so that's a crop out of an image. Thought that was the entire frame, sorry...

In that case, did you just happen to catch a glint off of some dust or other such small particle?

It would help to know how big these are (IE how small of an area this is cropped from).

I am thinking the same thing as FlyingPhotog. I think something catching light might have been moving at or away from the camera depending on the sequence of these images and where you were focused, etc.

They are uncropped, just resized.

Ah, well I still don't think it's anything wrong with the camera.

So these shots were supposed to be of a parade? Or are these test shots?

During a parade. I've posted some images a few minutes before and after the above series here

https://photography-on-the.net …hp?p=6604695&po​stcount=15

The first was after the problem series, the next two were before.

Since it's the first and only time I've seen it so far, I think I'll just chalk it up to a random fluke.

I guess I'm dense but what are we looking at? Sky? Wall? What?

I was pointing down a street where motorcycles were lined up. The attached files don't show any of that. I wasn't pointing to a sky or wall. It's supposed to be of people but obviously the camera didn't capture that.

Ah, ok, so you got a complete failure to record any image at all then...

And you say this is the first and only time this has happened?

Do you know for a fact that you had the camera up and were actually shooting when you got these or did you possibly bump the shutter or lean against something that hit the shutter when the camera was on your hip or by your side?

10fps goes by pretty quickly...

FlyingPhotog wrote in post #6604814
Ah, ok, so you got a complete failure to record any image at all then...

And you say this is the first and only time this has happened?

Do you know for a fact that you had the camera up and were actually shooting when you got these or did you possibly bump the shutter or lean against something that hit the shutter when the camera was on your hip or by your side?

10fps goes by pretty quickly...

Yes, I'm pretty sure I was trying to capture something at that moment. Because of the late start and people randomly screaming, I couldn't tell what was coming, so I fired a few bursts in that direction. The total number of non-recorded shots was 15. I had my camera out in front of me the whole time, and I'm sure I didn't fire anything accidentally into the ground or sky. After I shot the burst, I reviewed the shots, saw the gray captures, panicked a little, but forwarded until I saw some correct exposures, then resumed shooting.