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Damaged Chip or jpgs?
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A colleague at work brought in her camera chip for a small Sony hand held. She’d been on a 3 week holiday, taken many pics and when she got home her co-travellers had asked for a copy of some of the pictures. She duly handed over the camera chip and they downloaded what they needed onto an Apple Mac.
She then proceeded to down load all the shots onto her own laptop. However, they look like each and every one is damaged. If they were old negs or printed film I’d describe the damage as someone had scrathed them all. Its possible to see part of the actual pciture under the scratches.
She asked me to take a look and see if there was anything I could do to retrieve. I loaded them up at home and here the thing, the small thumb nail versions are absolutely pristine perfect. I can view the photo perfectly. Each shot is intact and looks great. Its only when I double click to see what they look like in large format that they are unviewable.
I can’t tell if the chip is damaged or if, for some reason, its the jpgs.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how I might be able to retrieve them for her or know of any software downloads that I might try to run to see.
I’d be very grateful for any/all suggestions.
Maryare you taking about a memory card or something, never heard been called a chip.
anyways from what you saying without seeing the files, could be
1. could be a effect setting on the camera
2. corrupt memory card (should always format card in camera)
3. as with above a file is need to find the problemwhat you could do, buy another memory card, format it in camera, take some shots and see results
or use the one you have, but backup the ones already on it.phillip
It’s possible that the files are fragmented & not actually damaged. Sometimes this happens with SD cards. Free disk defragmenting software might solve this. I use smart defrag v2 from IOBIT & it usually does the job.
Thanks very much everyone. appreciate the assistance. I’ll let you know how goes it later in the week.
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