Re: ISTD in-camera corruption of RAW images

2004-06-12 Thread Jan van Wijk
Hi Rob, On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 23:53:31 +1000, Rob Studdert wrote: >> I have found 3 out of the 1000 I have sofar that have this corruption, all have >> been shot using SanDisk 1Gb or Sandisk Ultra 512Mb cards. >> >> In all cases it may have been a shot from a short sequence, so the in-camara >> bu

Re: ISTD in-camera corruption of RAW images

2004-06-12 Thread Jan van Wijk
Hi Paul, On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 10:03:05 -0400, Paul Stenquist wrote: >I do own an *ist-D, and the software works fine whether it identifies >the lens or not. In fact, with K or M lenses, it does not identify the >lens, and, quite obviously, it can't. I've shot about 5000 RAW images >and have not

Re: ISTD in-camera corruption of RAW images

2004-06-12 Thread Herb Chong
i have had this happen only when the batteries run out during a sequence. this is because i am unable to tell when the batteries are actually low or whether the camera's power indicator says they are low. if you are using an external card reader, i would most suspect a problem with your reader. He

Re: ISTD in-camera corruption of RAW images

2004-06-13 Thread Jan van Wijk
Hi Rob, On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 09:54:39 +1000, Rob Studdert wrote: >> You will see that the whole bottom half of the picture is 'shifted' or 'rotated' >> to the right, by about one fourth of the image width. The quarter that ends up >> in the lower left corner has a magenta color shift. (visible in

Re: ISTD in-camera corruption of RAW images

2004-06-13 Thread Jan van Wijk
Hi Bill, On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 17:51:50 -0600, William Robb wrote: >Well, thats bizarre. The file won't open at all with the Pentax >software, and looks like 4 files pasted together at random with the >Photoshop converter. That is on first look, if you look closer, you will see it is the same imag

RE: ISTD in-camera corruption of RAW images

2004-06-13 Thread Jan van Wijk
Hi Amita, On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 19:23:58 -0400, Amita Guha wrote: >> I have shot almost a thousand RAW images now with the *ISTD, >> and noticed that a few images turned out to be corrupted when >> trying to process them. > >Reformatting your CF card regularly should prevent this. I started doing

RE: ISTD in-camera corruption of RAW images

2004-06-14 Thread Rob Studdert
On 13 Jun 2004 at 10:50, Jan van Wijk wrote: > I format the CF card each time all contents has been copied and verified. Beware the in-camera "Format" option appears to be little more than a quick re- establishment of the file allocation table, it's far too quick to be anything more and as such

RE: ISTD in-camera corruption of RAW images

2004-06-15 Thread Jan van Wijk
Hi Rob, On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 23:58:17 +1000, Rob Studdert wrote: >Very interesting, which tool did you use to test the card? My own, 'DFSee' :-) I am a one-man data-recovery company, developing and selling a multi-platform data analysis and recovery tool (for DOS, Windows-NT/2000/XP and OS2). Se