Re: Digital photo problem - equipment failure?

Here's Johnny wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am not a photographer (though very interested in photography!) but I
> do fairly basic digital retouching for wedding customers. I have
> received a few discs of photos from the same photographer a few times
> now with the same problem.
>
> About a quarter from the left border of a landscape image, a vertical,
> single-pixel greenish line run through. I've zoomed in and can see a
> small (maybe 2x2 pixel) white spot about 5 pixels from the top of the
> image, and the green line runs vertically down from there, right to the
> bottom of the image. This littel white spot looks like there's a "hole"
> in the image, which is "leaking" the green line.
>
> Can this learned forum please advise me as to why this keeps happening?
>
> I have raised this previously with the photographer and he told me last
> time it was down to a corrupted media card. That sounded wrong to me, as
> an IT support pro - if the media card was corrupt, we would be having
> other issues. (That's not to say he was being dishonest - he's not an IT
> person.) He told me he ditched the faulty card, but here we are again. I
> suspect he's mis-diagnosing the problem, and that ditching this data
> card too will not fix the issue.
>
> Could his explanation be right? I suspect it's a problem with his camera
> and that he's giving me excuses to fob off having to spend money on it.
> I'd be very grateful for advice, as I don't want to dismiss him if I'm
> wrong. He tells me he took many more photos after the ones he took for
> me, and none of them have this issue, so he reckons it's ot the camera.
> Then again he never noticed this the first time, nor this time, until I
> raised it with him.
>
>
> Thanks for reading this!

Sometimes you can get weird lines or blockish areas from corrupted files
on (faulty) cards.
But from your description, I think he's got a more serious problem with
the sensor itself.

Me

which camera type, please?

Here's Johnny napsal(a):
>
> "Me" <> wrote in message
> news:hcqqg3$bsf$...
>> Here's Johnny wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I am not a photographer (though very interested in photography!) but
>>> I do fairly basic digital retouching for wedding customers. I have
>>> received a few discs of photos from the same photographer a few times
>>> now with the same problem.
>>>
>>> About a quarter from the left border of a landscape image, a
>>> vertical, single-pixel greenish line run through. I've zoomed in and
>>> can see a small (maybe 2x2 pixel) white spot about 5 pixels from the
>>> top of the image, and the green line runs vertically down from there,
>>> right to the bottom of the image. This littel white spot looks like
>>> there's a "hole" in the image, which is "leaking" the green line.
>>>
>>> Can this learned forum please advise me as to why this keeps happening?
>>>
>>> I have raised this previously with the photographer and he told me
>>> last time it was down to a corrupted media card. That sounded wrong
>>> to me, as an IT support pro - if the media card was corrupt, we would
>>> be having other issues. (That's not to say he was being dishonest -
>>> he's not an IT person.) He told me he ditched the faulty card, but
>>> here we are again. I suspect he's mis-diagnosing the problem, and
>>> that ditching this data card too will not fix the issue.
>>>
>>> Could his explanation be right? I suspect it's a problem with his
>>> camera and that he's giving me excuses to fob off having to spend
>>> money on it. I'd be very grateful for advice, as I don't want to
>>> dismiss him if I'm wrong. He tells me he took many more photos after
>>> the ones he took for me, and none of them have this issue, so he
>>> reckons it's ot the camera. Then again he never noticed this the
>>> first time, nor this time, until I raised it with him.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for reading this!
>>
>> Sometimes you can get weird lines or blockish areas from corrupted
>> files on (faulty) cards.
>> But from your description, I think he's got a more serious problem
>> with the sensor itself.
>
> Thanks for your reply - I suspect much the same myself. However, he
> tells me he has covered other events since that wedding, and there were
> no problems. I can't verify this, though.

van dark

which camera type, please?

Here's Johnny napsal(a):
>
> "Me" <> wrote in message
> news:hcqqg3$bsf$...
>> Here's Johnny wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I am not a photographer (though very interested in photography!) but
>>> I do fairly basic digital retouching for wedding customers. I have
>>> received a few discs of photos from the same photographer a few times
>>> now with the same problem.
>>>
>>> About a quarter from the left border of a landscape image, a
>>> vertical, single-pixel greenish line run through. I've zoomed in and
>>> can see a small (maybe 2x2 pixel) white spot about 5 pixels from the
>>> top of the image, and the green line runs vertically down from there,
>>> right to the bottom of the image. This littel white spot looks like
>>> there's a "hole" in the image, which is "leaking" the green line.
>>>
>>> Can this learned forum please advise me as to why this keeps happening?
>>>
>>> I have raised this previously with the photographer and he told me
>>> last time it was down to a corrupted media card. That sounded wrong
>>> to me, as an IT support pro - if the media card was corrupt, we would
>>> be having other issues. (That's not to say he was being dishonest -
>>> he's not an IT person.) He told me he ditched the faulty card, but
>>> here we are again. I suspect he's mis-diagnosing the problem, and
>>> that ditching this data card too will not fix the issue.
>>>
>>> Could his explanation be right? I suspect it's a problem with his
>>> camera and that he's giving me excuses to fob off having to spend
>>> money on it. I'd be very grateful for advice, as I don't want to
>>> dismiss him if I'm wrong. He tells me he took many more photos after
>>> the ones he took for me, and none of them have this issue, so he
>>> reckons it's ot the camera. Then again he never noticed this the
>>> first time, nor this time, until I raised it with him.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for reading this!
>>
>> Sometimes you can get weird lines or blockish areas from corrupted
>> files on (faulty) cards.
>> But from your description, I think he's got a more serious problem
>> with the sensor itself.
>
> Thanks for your reply - I suspect much the same myself. However, he
> tells me he has covered other events since that wedding, and there were
> no problems. I can't verify this, though.

van dark