uh oh..this ain't good!!

[carrbowl]

Please tell me this isn't the camera...I'm hoping it's just the cf cards. Most of the pics on the same file were good but there were these three that looked like this.

[Sonny]

No worries, that is the new Andy Warhol feature.

I think it is a CF card issue.

[Steve Balderrama]

easy to test, put in a new CF card and start shooting. You might try a complete format on the existing card if you don't do that regularly.

[venchka]

Where did you buy that card? I've been looking for that D-Holga feature!

Seriously. Assuming I can be serious. Format the card. Use it as a last resort.

[venchka]

ps: So chimping is a required duty of using a digital camera, hey?

[Rson]

I don't think it looks like file corruption, My guess is the sensor is crapping out.

[hue-e]

looks like incomplete jpg data to me.

I've gotten this when I tried opening a file before it completed downloading. have you tried downloading the file again?

[Sonny]

Darn, this has been discussed before in depth, but I cannot find the thread. I was hoping to reference it for some help.

[XtremePhoto]

Not your sensor crapping out. I had this issue on a computer and our IT guru found the issue to be with the USB and the Card Reader. Look EXACTLY like what you have posted here. I would suspect the card thou, so I won't say it isn't the card.

You can find out real easily if it is your camera, card or computer...try downloading on another computer, and see if the results are the same. If it replicates the exact problem on another computer, most likely it is the card of possibly the camera. When I downloaded to another computer, the problem went away. If that happens, it isn't your card or camera...it is your computer.

-G-

[MT Stringer]

I had a few like that lst weekend. I blame it on the CF express card reader I was using in my laptop. When I downloaded the pics via a regular usb CF card reader, they were OK.

[carrbowl]

Geez...I just bought a new computer and a brand new card reader...It would be sad if it was either of those two!! The cf cards on the other hand are very very old...I would be surprised if it wasn't them.

Well here is a new something interesting...It didn't show that on the JPEG file...only on the RAW file??? the JPEG file is fine???

[Rson]

There was a thread on another forum....long and short is that the JPG is corrupt but was it corrupted in the compression on the camera. Firmware fixed it. I wouldn't rule out the CF card.

Are they the same on different cards/brands?

[Phisch]

When this happened to me, it turned out that it wasn't the card, the cable or the camera sensor.

It was the software, the version of Adobe Bridge that I was using to download the images. I figured it out when I used the Canon software to d/l instead. Maybe try that? Or update/reinstall your software.

[Rson]

The above images do not strike me as a transfer issue. Here is a sample of a bad transfer from a corrupt drive, notice the gray which is no information.

[Daniel W.]

I've had raw files look like that if the cord got wiggled from the camera during tether, or if the card reader was disconnected/wiggled.