Corrupt photos?

swingking

I took some photos on my camera yesterday and had trouble when I tried to import onto my computer

Both Adobe Bridge and Lightroom are showing these Raw files as scrambled but when I view the thumbnails on my computer, I can actually see the pictures.

I've never come across this problem before and I'm not sure if it's the camera that's the problem or the memory card. The compact flash card is relatively new ( about 2-3 months).

I have attached some screenshots of what I'm seeing.

has anyone else come across this problem ?

Any help is appreciated.

Balfey1972

Has that problem a couple of years back and it was due to a corrupt memory card. I wasn't able to salvage the photos but I did get the card replaced after returning it to the manufacturers.

Tiriel

I had something similar also and it was corrupt memory card

clintondaly

http://www.piriform.com/recuva

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec– works on multiple platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, etc), but not very user-friendly. You may want to get some help from one of your computer friends, or check out this tutorial http://regex.info/blog/2008-12-03/1016
http://www.bluem.net/en/mac/exif-untrasher/ – only available for Mac, and only recovers photos you accidentally deleted (or if you accidentally formatted your memory card).


Some advice,always format a memory card(on the presumption its empty) before it goes into any device.

swingking

Super advice thanks all

twowheelsonly

Bit late to this party but....

I had the same a while back with RAW files while using Windows to import them.
I also thought it was a corrupt card but found that if I didn't name them (in the prompt) while downloading that they worked fine so just downloaded un-named and dragged them into an album later.
I presume it was because I was in effect renaming the files differently to what they were in the camera and obviously it was affecting the properties in some way.

All is good now anyway!!

ScumLord

swingking wrote: »

Both Adobe Bridge and Lightroom are showing these Raw files as scrambled but when I view the thumbnails on my computer, I can actually see the pictures.

As far as I know the thumbnail is a separate jpeg that's attached to the main jpg just for browsing. So you can have a corrupted file and a working thumbnail.

milkjunkie90

sounds like a corrupted memory card, same thing has happend with some of my external hard drives in the past...any storage device has the potential to become corrupted or faulty