Corrupted images

[BigAl-sa]

Can you try to use another program to view the images? Irfanview, for example. Windows might be giving you BS. If you can view the images OK on the camera, they should be fine - the camera won't show you the thumbnail, especially not if you can zoom in on it.

A thumbnail for previewing the picture on the camera's LCD screen, in file managers, or in photo manipulation software.

This has prompted some camera manufacturers to develop non-standard techniques for storing the large preview images used by some digital cameras for LCD review.

AFAIK, the camera does use the embedded jpeg for its LCD preview.

 

[adsl3g]

Not embedded no, windows creates a Thumbs.db file alongside the pictures that caches thumbnails to speed up viewing. Afaik windows creates this only once by default so the thumbnails could theoretically still look fine while the images went corrupt in the mean while. Not 100% sure about this last part.

But my images usually reads fine when I re-insert the memory card.

I had this before as a result of moving files around too much on a network drive - If you refresh the thumbnails, they will show the corrupted picture.

 

[koffiejunkie]

AFAIK, the camera does use the embedded jpeg for its LCD preview.

I guess I thought there's a difference between a preview and a thumbnail.

 

[bwana]

I've tried to open in Paint.net, Photoshop, Picasa - all give the same result.

Client is going to supplier to query it. If I have news I'll pass it on.

Have you tried using a card reader as well as the camera?

Here's a good place to start wrt recovery - http://www.pcinspector.de/Sites/smart_recovery/download.htm?language=1