strange images

I've been getting strange artifacts/noise in my images. It looks like the end

of film where it's yellow or some color. I have the latest firmware for my D60

camera. I also noticed when I went to Canon's website, they have a firmware for

the same revision number 1.04, but it's dated for 11/19/2007, and the first

1.04 was dated back in 2002. I'm waiting for a response from canon to find out

what the difference is between the two. But has anyone ever experienced this?

A sample image (suitably reduced in size for posting) would aid diagnosis.

My apologies...Here is a sample.

I was having a somewhat similar problem with photos from my 10D and 20D a year or so ago. The fact that it was happening with both cameras made me suspect that the problem was not caused by the camera, and indeed the culprit turned out to be a damaged cable on a CD-ROM drive in my computer. The CD-ROM drive was not involved in storing the images at all. I was copying them from the card reader to the hard drive, and then to a backup hard drive. But the mere fact of having it in the computer was a problem. Replacing the broken cable fixed the problem.

 

Are you seeing this problem while the photos are still in the camera, or only after you have copied your CF card to the computer? If the latter, perhaps you could test with a different computer.<div></div>

It could be a corrupt CF card. If it shows up on the LCD panel at the back then your camera is broken. If that is the case it is unlikely to be worthwhile fixing. You would be probably be better off buying one of the newer bodies.

 

 

Hopefully it is just a bad card or cable.

I had a similar issue, which turned out to be a bad SD card.

I solved my problem by getting a new computer. Everything else...the CF cards, readers, cameras remained the same but the problem disappeared.

This is exactly what JPEG images look like when they've been corrupted. Just download it again off the card. If you get the same thing, then that's a pretty good indicator that it's file on the card that's bad, and in that case the question is whether the camera is causing it or the problem is the card. I think it's pretty unlikely that it's the camera, but you can begin trying to isolate the problem by going to another CF card to see if you still have the problem. If you do, it's the camera. If you don't, it's the (first) card.

 

The other possibility is that it's being corrupted once it's downloaded on your computer. I've begun seeing some of this with at least one, and possibly two of my hard drives. Images that have been stored for awhile are turning up corrupted. I've actually seen it on two drives, so I'm beginning to be very concerned about the long-term health of my images!

 

Regards... Joe

I noticed the funny looking image when I went to view some of the pics. So my card was still in the camera. I dunno.

If the problem is happening when you view pics while they're in your camera, the problem has to be either the card or the camera. If you find it's happening on multiple cards (and especially if the cards work OK in another camera), then the problem must be in the camera.

 

The firmware update is probably not going to help, as it presumably was working OK before.

 

You haven't by any chance recently started using any radio equipment near your camera have you? Radio triggers for your flash, for example. I have read reports of these devices causing banding on some CMOS sensors.

format your card, change your card. If the problem persist, change you camera.

I figured out the problem. It was during the transfer from camera to pc. I double checked my card and on the camera, it looked fine. Even the small jpeg it creates when transferring. Still don't understand why it did that. but thanks for your suggestions and comments.