Hi Chuck;
On Jul 2, 2010, at 10:17 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> Time for some diagnostic work and some questions.
>
> Are you shooting raw? If so do you know anything about the file
> structure of an E3 raw file. Or are you shooting JPEG? When the images
> display on the LCD can you magnify them?
JPEG, and yes, can magnify just fine on camera.
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>
>
> What you have to figure out is whether what the camera is writing is
> corrupted or what's being read back is what's corrupted or if its your
> computer or reader that's doing the corruption on either the initial
> read/write or the later read back.
First time (when I lost all the photos, only 1/5 showing, rest just gray
blank), I transferred the photos via a Sandisk USB2 multicard reader (which
I’ve been using for years). 2nd time (last night) was E3>Macbook Pro vis USB.
I just discovered something else: The photos are fine when imported/viewed in
iPhoto, but are ‘corrupt’ (aka only partially visible, rest gray blank) when
opened up in Preview/Finder (i guess the PC equivalent is Windows Explorer).
Very odd.
>
> The first thing to do is replace the card with another one. Do you see
> the same thing? If not it's the card. If so you need to test different
> modes. If you were shooting raw try JPEG or vice-versa or even raw +
> JPEG. Can you read back and magnify and see the entire image on the
> LCD. That means not just viewing the image immediately after it was
> taken (probably still in an internal buffer) but also switching to
> display mode on the camera and being able to step through multiple
> images and fully magnify them on the LCD. If this works on the second
> card but not on your original then it's the original card. If it
> doesn't work on the second card then the problem is with the camera. If
> the test (including fully magnifying more than one image on the LCD)
> works on both cards then you've got a problem with your computer or the
> card reader being used.
At this point I’m starting to suspect the computer, or rather the application.
Makes no sense, but more sense than either the card, or camera. Why else would
one application show the photos fine, another not?
>
> My 5D can't do it but I seem to recall that the E3 can do an in-camera
> raw to JPEG conversion. Does that work?
Not sure, never shot raw :(
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
Thanks!
>
>
>
> siddiq@xxxxxxx wrote:
>> G’day all;
>>
>> Not for the first time, I’m seeing only a third, or ⅔, of an image
>> when I download them from the E3. They display fine on the LCD, but
>> when I copy them to laptop, only see partial.
>>
>> One time I lost an entire dance photo shoot, and had to call as many
>> dancers as I could for a redo the next day (promotional poster for
>> them).
>>
>> This time it wasn’t as critical, but I’m starting to get worried. Is
>> this something E3 related, or card related, you think?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> /s
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