Is this a bad sign?

I imported some photos to lightroom and a few look like this, any idea what is going on?





thx


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I would say that it's definitely not a good sign.


Do they look the same in DPP or any other software.

they look the same in picasa...

I would suspect your memory card


Mark

Were your subjects futuristic cyborgs? If so, then I think you're fine. If not, verify that the problem lies with that specific memory card. Try another memory card in your camera and see what happens.

It doesn't look good, you should try to see if you can view the images on that card in the camera.


Sorry to hear about your troubles, I hope that you didn't loose valuable images.


Whatever you do, don't reformat the card until you figure out what the problem is.


If all hope is eventually lost, then you could always just say that it was photoshopped and call it a wrap! [;)]


Rich

I had something kind of similar happen to me; I uploaded the pictures to my desktop, and they looked fine. Then, I copied and pasted them onto a flash drive so I could see them on the laptop, but they got messed up in the process. Apparently, the copy-paste feature on windows (im using XP) doesn

Unfortunately things like that can happen with memory cards or flash drives when they aren't properly ejected before unplugging them from the USB port.

Not to unsuspect the memory card, but my hard drive has made pictures look like that.

I

Thanks for the input everyone, I am relieved that no one thought it was my camera... I am hoping it stays an isolated incident. Sean, by the way the picture is of a cyborg family.

What's the worry? The bottom left of the image seems fine. Just put your subjects there, and crop heavily. [:P]

Neuro, that

I had this happen to one image on a Sandisk card, but it never happened again on that card (properly inserted the card, properly removed the card from the camera, etc.).


Maybe your card took the "red pill" and it's actually looking at the Matrix? [:)]

I agree I suspect this is a bad memory card.


Do you:


Format and erase it only in the camera


Did you


Remove it while it was formatting.


Scrap the card and don

Some years ago I had a Powershot A85 (great compact camera by the way) that took similar pictures and assumed the camera was broken after years of usage. I still have it though and will definitely try another card - never thought that could be the problem. Thanks for the info!