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Weird images from my d200
Peter Chee, Student/Intern
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Corvallis | OR | USA | Posted: 5:42 AM on 05.20.06 |
->> Tonight I shot two events and I really felt like I pushed my brand new d200 pretty hard. I shot in low light with the newsroom's 70-200mm VR lens. Just about all of my shots turned out fine, got a few keepers. But there were a handful that loaded onto the computer just looking, well, weird. The question images look like about a fraction of the image recorded, and the rest is a solid gray block. At first I thought maybe it was Photo Mechanic acting up (it's never given trouble before), but then I opened up the actual image files still on my flash card, and sure enough the gray block screwing up the image was there.
So now I guess there are three things that could be wrong here. It could be my d200 (I pray it's not, I just bought it this week), it could be the 2-gig flash card (also brand new with the camera), and the third cause might be the VR lens (It's had trouble with both our D1H and D2H bodies with the aperature locking up.) Could this be the problem? I thought when aperature locked up it'd produce a solid black image. I don't know what this part-picture with gray for the rest is. I've never seen it before. The images when played back on the camera's LCD screen look perfect, but when downloaded from the card, only part of the image is there.
Okay granted I literally fired off over 1,000 shots on this single charge (i use the MB-200 battery grip) and this gray problem only cropped up on maybe 5 or so. But it still worries me, because it's just bizarre. And it only happened when I was using the VR lens.
Has anyone else come across trouble like this? I'm confused here. Not really worried, but just very curious. Thank's everyone. Cheers. |
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Brian Ray, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Austin | TX | USA | Posted: 6:50 AM on 05.20.06 |
->> If the images show up fine on the camera but not when you use the computer to view the files, my guess would be some sort of file corruption on the card. You could try image rescue to get those 5 files if you really need them. Try running a few different makes/models of CF cards through the camera and see if the problem happens again. If not, you pretty much know it's that one card...
Just my opinion, anyone else? |
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Evan Dyson, Student/Intern
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Harrisonburg | VA | United States | Posted: 12:55 PM on 05.20.06 |
->> I've seen the same thing a few times loading cards at my paper. Usually less than 5 images from a shoot... partly recorded and then grey. It doesn't happen that often, but when it does I usually see pretty low battery on the camera that produced them. (How far into your shoot were you before they started appearing??) And they usually happen on the older cards.
my 2 cents. |
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John Blankfort, Photographer
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Monterey | CA | USA | Posted: 1:46 PM on 05.20.06 |
->> Peter,
I’ve had this happen a few times. You might try erasing the “thumbs” system file if using windows. Also, try loading the image in Capture and saving it again. It could be that just the thumbnail that is imbedded in the jpg or raw file is corrupt. Another thing to try is looking at the file on the card. Maybe it got hosed during the ingest?
Please let us know what you find.
John |
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