Update: First of all, thanks for all who commented or sent me an email. I finally narrowed this down to some sort of issue with the USB ports on the machine. Uninstalling the drivers, then allowing Windows to find them again resolved the issue. Totally weird, but now everything is working great.

I took a bunch of pictures at a friends baptism this evening, over 75% turn out like this (though not all the same pattern).

I used two different lenses with the same result, shooting both in full automatic and 100% manual. When I open directly from the Compact Flash card in Photoshop I get: "This document may be damaged (the file may be truncated or incomplete). Continue?" I noticed it earlier this week on a few images out of hundreds, so formatted the card before taking the photos tonight. Update: Tried a different CF card -- probably 1 out of 33 images non-corrupted. Yikes!

Any photography buff have answers? Is there any way I can recover these files? Luckily I usually shoot at least 3 frames of each pose, so *believe* I got enough of the event, but it was very discomforting to know I might not catch any of the next one.



Categories: Photography | Comments [5] | # | Posted on Sunday, December 28, 2008 3:37:39 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)   
Sunday, December 28, 2008 4:58:18 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
Be sure to format the CF with the camera. Hopefully your camera isn't dieing !

Have you transferred the images via Camera/USB or card reader. Hopefully it's just your card reader.

Be sure to do a total drive backup of the compact flash before attempting any repairs.

I'd look at some of the utilities on download.com:
http://www.download.com/PhotoRescue/3000-2248_4-10160919.html?tag=mncol
http://www.download.com/Digital-Photo-Recovery/3000-2192_4-10257774.html?tag=mncol&cdlPid=10934886
etc.

I've used photo rescue to recover deleted pictures before, but not corrupted ones.
Good luck.
tom allison
Sunday, December 28, 2008 5:19:10 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
You may want to check this. Not sure if it applies as there is not enough info in your post.
http://www.shawnolson.net/a/1276/canon-30d-problem-with-lexar-cf-cards.html

Either way it looks like you should get a new CF card.

Adam
Thursday, January 01, 2009 10:34:40 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
I have had an issue in past with one Lexar flash card 80x 1 gig with a Canon 20d camerra. Lexar replaced the card for me amd no more issues. Same card worked file in other cameras like Canon G9. I currently use 4 and 8 gig Sandisk Extreme III and Extreme IV flash cards and some 8 gig UDMA flash cards with Canon 40 D without any issues. I do format cards first in camera. I use LightRoom to import and tag photos and a Sandisk Firewire card reader that is much faster than usb for importing large batches of RAW and JPEG images. You may be able to test the cards in a firewire reader at a camera store or I have a reader you are welcome to borrow in Carnation. I have used Sandisk Photo Rescue to unerase accidentally deleted files with success. I have not tried it with corrupted files.
Thursday, January 01, 2009 11:13:34 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
this might help


Digital Pictures Recovery Software for $69

http://www.prodatadoctor.com/prodata/digital-camera-recovery.html advertised as recovering corrupted canon files and they have a Zune version too .
Friday, January 16, 2009 9:28:53 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
How did this go? Can we assume this problem was the cause of your new camera?
tom allison
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