Re-exported the images from iphoto library, opened in preview/finder, and they
looked fine! last time around, they were bad in preview so couldn’t even import.
tried the same card, in the card reader, on another Mac, and a PC, same deal,
partial images.
On Jul 2, 2010, at 1:43 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> On the surface at least it sounds like the preview/finder application is
> corrupt. Can it be reinstalled? There are two more possibilities I can
> think of. Since you're using a Mac (which has more integrated code than
> typically found on a PC) there could be a common subroutine used by the
> preview/finder that is used by other applications. If that's true and
> that's where the problem is it may show up on other Mac image
> applications. The second possibility is that your computer has a
> physical memory corruption problem that only shows up at certain
> addresses. That means that whether preview/finder shows the problem or
> not depends on where in memory it's loaded or where its image memory is
> allocated. Try loading more stuff ahead of your image apps in order to
> cause memory allocations to change. Does the behavior of preview/finder
> change?
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> siddiq@xxxxxxx wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> <snip>
>>>
>>> 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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