Does anyone know what happened here? The pictures before and after are fine. If it is a one time fluke, no big deal, but if it is a memory card issue or I need to send it in to Kodak for replacement/repair it would be nice to know now. The camera is a Kodak EasyShare M583. Thanks in advance!
very strange. The shutter speed is good because it captured the bird in flight, but the foreground is blurred, and I can't make sense of the background objects. Were you in a moving vehicle when you took this photo?
It looks as if it either somehow got double exposed, or just didn't meter the light correctly. If the metering is the issue, it probably will not be an ongoing problem. If it got double exposed (two pictures on top of each other) then it MIGHT be the memory card. I would format your memory card and if the problem continues, I would replace it. Just my opinion...
@onarom The picture was taken standing still looking over a body of water. The greenish object along the bottom is a bridge, the pinkish bar shouldn't be there at all - it should be the sky with masts and the light pole in it, just like above. I didn't realize one thing didn't show up here well. The picture is actually thin and thick straight horizontal lines.
1/125 at f/15, ISO 100 sounds right for a sunny day. I'd vote for some sort of double exposure. There's no way I can see for it to be so overexposed at those settings.
@onarom@mikew I hadn't even thought of double exposure with a digital camera. I went back and checked the other pictures. The first shot here is a seagull over a brick wall, the second one should be a bridge with masts behind it. Shame because it looks like the seagull shot might have been a nice one. I have reformatted my memory card, and if this happens again, I'll get a new card. Thanks for the help!
I think it's always better to format rather than delete if you you have a lot of images on the card. Ok to delete a couple of images, but when it gets to a lot, always format.
If this is a one-off then I wouldn't worry. Just download all the good photos and then format the card like Bonnie says. I think this is a card error. I have seen stuff like this before.
@kloud@bobfoto Does it make any difference if I let the camera format the card or or should I remove it and let the computer do it? I believe I read something about it once. That tiny card is so fiddly and fragile. I think the passion for making things smaller may have gone too far with that one.
I've seen this before with my husband's old canon powershot. Photos would randomly have pink stripes/chunks in them and sometimes the whole photo was pink. It seemed to happen slowly - first it was one photo, then two or three etc. Do a search for 'pink photo problem' and your camera brand. In my husband's case, it was a known problem and canon fixed it free of charge (it was something to do with a sensor). The problem returned though :-(. Try a different memory card if you can - when my husband's camera did this, we tried a different card and saw the same problem, so we could rule out the card being the problem.
@bobfoto on the similar topic I had been meaning to ask Olympus owners, I have a similar problem on my E500 (instead of fixing I just upgraded). Mine is almost all white in bright outdoor settings, and look like but more blurry in interior unbright light photos. I have switched cards, switched settings, used on auto, used on manual and it is persistent. Trying to figure if it would be worth fixing or not.
@dmariewms - I'm a fan of letting the camera do the formatting. The Camera and the Memory Card are the link you want to be the strongest. Get those singing off the same page and let the computer just simply read the data later. And Memory Cards are pretty robust, I have Memory Cards that have been in the ocean and crusted up with green salt. I cleaned them with vinegar, they still work, infact, the data on them before they went into the ocean still was readable. I have one that all of the outside plasticy covering has all peeled off, my greasy fingers rub all over the contacts, they still work! I use CF and XD cards by the way. XD cards are bulletproof!
@brumbe - The E-500 was a pretty cool camera, I have/had a E-510 which I should get repaired, but I'm too lazy. I upgraded too. Yours sounds like a camera issue though Paula! I send mine direct to Olympus for work in the past.
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It looks as if it either somehow got double exposed, or just didn't meter the light correctly. If the metering is the issue, it probably will not be an ongoing problem. If it got double exposed (two pictures on top of each other) then it MIGHT be the memory card. I would format your memory card and if the problem continues, I would replace it. Just my opinion...
@dmariewms - Hopefully a simple formatting of your memory card will take care of whatever caused this blunder from happening again.