so i took some family shots for some friends on sunday and just imported everything today. all of the shots imported correctly except for one. i've attached the images to the post so you can see what i mean. IMG_5521 was fine but IMG_5522 imported with some sort of corruption in the data. my main concern is "are my CF cards going bad or is it my camera?"

thanks in advance.


-courtney

Do you use a battery grip?

yes

Why would a battery grip matter?

did it look like that on the LCD? If not you may want to try re-uploading again.

By imported, do you mean imported into Lightroom or something similar?

I've had photos do weird corrupting things when importing into LR on the Mac Book Pro - I never had it happen when I was still using the PC. It is random when it happens - it isn't one card in particular that does it. When I go back to the card and look at the original file, the file itself is fine.

Have you checked the file itself on the card to see if it is ok?

Is it a third party battery grip?

Regardless tighten down the screw that goes into the tripod part absolutely as much as you can. What's happening is that the power is dropping out for a super split second when the photo is being written to the card.

if tightening the heck out of it doesn't fix it you can try getting warranty service otherwise you'll have to toss it out the window.

i did import them into aperture but i actually had to pull the image off of the card in order to view it. aperture wouldn't import the image. the battery grip is a canon grip for my 30d using canon batteries and lexar and kingston 50x-80x compact flash cards. i'll tighten down the screw for sure just in case but could it be anything else?

I have had the batery grip issue, but it just didn't write the file. I didn't get a file that looked like that. I had one card that had one file that looked like the one you are showing, and I havn't used the card since.

Get yourself a CF card reader and skip the "plug the camera to the computer" type of image transfer. Frees up the camera to take more pictures! ;p


T

If it continues and the grip is still under warranty contact canon about it. I've seen this happen numerous times because of battery grip issues, which is why it's the first thing I asked.

I have had the same problem lately but my RAW file looks a little different. Mine is a more colorful corruption, where half or even more is a mix of pink, yellows and whites. I have a brand new 40D and I use the same canon battery grip I've been using for a few years. I have also replaced the card reader and the USB hub that I use to upload the files (because I heard that it could be the card reader). Still, after this past Saturday's wedding, I had 40 photos out of 550 that were "corrupt".

Now I say it that way, "corrupt" because at the wedding, I backed up all of my digital photos on my laptop but these files were ok. When I was in Lightroom, version 1.4, I would get the colorful corrupt file, delete it and then go to my laptop and download it to a flashdrive and bring it over to my home computer. For some reason, the file is now fine and I don't have the corruption. Has the laptop magically "cleaned" the file? I'm really confused at this point but I did find out that the corruption only happened on 2 of the 3 cards that I used that night at the wedding.

So, my next move is to not use those cards, buy a couple new ones and hope that the problem goes away. If not, then there is a problem with Lightroom or a possible problem with my USB inside the tower of my home computer.

If anyone would like to see one of these colorful corrupt files please pm me and I'll be happy to send you one tonight. Any suggestions or comments on this would be greatly appreciated because it is causing my workflow time to greatly increase.

Damon B.

Sorry, I think I'm a thread killer. I'm still new to OSP but if anyone has any advise or experience with this problem in the thread I think I would and anyone else would love the advice.

i use the firewire 400 lexar stackables for importing images....i'm not sure what sounded lke i import right from the camera. sorry for that confusion. i took a look at my battery grip tonight. we'll see what happens.

That's happened to me twice. The first time was because I was at the end of the card capacity, the second time the shutter literally died halfway through opening/closing. Batteries died in the grip, which is probably why someone mentioned it above.

Still shoot on that card, nothing has happened since.

I've heard that you should format from the card reader, then again from the camera.

But honestly, memory is cheap. I'd ditch the card.

Damon, it almost sounds like one of your computer's hard drive is failing. I had that last November and December. Make sure you have everything backed up, and consider getting a new hard drive. If you delete and move your files around a lot(which a lot of us do), and your hard drive is pretty full and kind of "old" (2-4 years... depending on how much you use it), that can cause the hard drive some issues.

As far as Courtney's question... I would definitely look into the battery grip. I've had a few corruption issues, and while I'm not sure they all look the same when corrupted, my corrupted images didn't look like that.

Also, both of you should take your card reader into consideration as well-- if it's old and worn, get a new one. My 2nd shooter had an issue with hers. She'd see the pics on the camera, then would dump them onto the comp (through the reader) and they would show up as blank files. She took the card back out, put it in the camera, and the pics were there. Put it back in the card reader, and then NOTHING came up on the comp. Turns out the card reader was old and wasn't transfering the pics and was somehow corrupting them during the transfer. She had to run the corruption software on it, and it worked. At least the card reader is what we THOUGHT it was. It happened with two cards. oh, who ever knows.

Also consider running corruption software on it (Sandisk and Lexar both have software, I think.)