What's going on here? Any ideas?

Hi people,

Just wondering if you can give me a quick opinion on the attached image.

It's not from my camera but a mate has asked me what I think the problem is.

My instinct is that it's most likely a card error or possibly a writing error from the camera to the card.

The problem is not with every image but is very intermittent and it appears to be only the one card as other cards have not shown similar problems.

Interestingly, the thumbnail doesn't appear to show any errors.
Pic was shot on a 300D using a Silicon Power 66x 256mb CF card

Any ideas??

Thanks

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It looks like a corrupted file. It could happen just about anywhere along the process but if you're saying that it's only happening with one card, I would think it's a safe bet that you've found the culprit.

Looks like a corrupt image.

As JRA suggests, if it is limited to one card i think it is a card error. Hence why I prefer to stay with big name brand cards like Lexar or Sandisk.

With the massive reductions in card prices over the years, I didn't think anyone ever used 256Mb cards any more. I know I don't... I have bunch of them kicking around here that are virtually worthless now. The smallest card I use now is a 1Gb and that's in an older Canon G5.

JWright wrote in post #9629717
With the massive reductions in card prices over the years, I didn't think anyone ever used 256Mb cards any more. I know I don't... I have bunch of them kicking around here that are virtually worthless now. The smallest card I use now is a 1Gb and that's in an older Canon G5.

John, you just made me smile. I wasn't much of a photographer back in 2003, but I still remain fascinated at the fact that the original PowerShot G cameras used CF cards...back then I had a Fuji camera and used a 64MB card. That carried over until 2006; on my A400 I set the images quality to M3, and as a result those images aren't as usable as I'd like.

We just bought my wife's daughter a Canon Powershot A1100 IS for her birthday. Nice little P&S. It came with a 128MB card! And alkaline batteries!

I had to throw in a 4GB card, NiMH rechargeable batteries and charger, and a case.

20droger wrote in post #9631372
We just bought my wife's daughter a Canon Powershot A1100 IS for her birthday. Nice little P&S. It came with a 128MB card! And alkaline batteries!

I had to throw in a 4GB card, NiMH rechargeable batteries and charger, and a case.

It is amazing how often they ship things like this with either no card or a virtually useless on like 128mb or 256mb. How much would it cost them to up these cards to useful sizes?

neilwood32 wrote in post #9632499
It is amazing how often they ship things like this with either no card or a virtually useless on like 128mb or 256mb. How much would it cost them to up these cards to useful sizes?

Nothing new. My first Canon came with a massive 8MB card!

jra wrote in post #9625611
It looks like a corrupted file. It could happen just about anywhere along the process but if you're saying that it's only happening with one card, I would think it's a safe bet that you've found the culprit.

You might try formatting the card in the camera & then running some test shots to see if that fixes the problem. Otherwise, I'd trash it.

Thanks guys - even those who went off on a tangent.
It was pretty much what I suspected.
Just wanted a couple of other thoughts to see if there was any other possibilities.

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philwillmedia wrote in post #9625589
Interestingly, the thumbnail doesn't appear to show any errors.

I realize you said the thread is done, but I thought I would clear this up. The EXIF information actually contains a thumbnail of the image. So it is certainly reasonable for that thumbnail to have not been corrupted (i.e. on a part of the flash card that's working correctly), while the image itself is corrupted (i.e. on a bad part of the flash card).

Dave