Banding with Canon 5d

[Josh66]

The bands lining up with the window blinds is pure coincidence.

I kinda doubt that. It looks to me like the windows are causing it.

I would try to set up an experiment. Position some bright lights on the edge of the frame and see if you can reproduce the bands. If you can, you'll know what's causing it.

 

[Garbz]

RacePhoto the D200's "problem" occurs when an image is beyond anything usable, whereas the photo above looks more like photos I take on a regular basis (dark moody with enough contrast to blow both highlights and shadows).

If it were a form of flare it wouldn't continue like that over the entire frame, it would eventually fade off. Furthermore the flare wouldn't be vertical, it would curve through the lens. There's no doubt that the bright parts are causing it but this is either an error on the sensor, or an error on the readout. A similar thing happens when you use the electronic viewfinder on my dad's Olympus point and shoot. Branding as a result of how data is read out. Take a photo and it's all better again.

The only camera I have seen that has this problem when taking a photo and the camera was not broken is on my camera phone, and in that case it really is the lens

 

[Bifurcator]

I've had several cameras that had the exact same problem. Of course that doesn't mean I know why it happens. I think it has to do with the sensor. I call it sensor flare. I've not seen it happen on any of my good cameras yet. The last one I had it happen on was a Nikon 880.

 

[_SnapShot_]

OK I give! :thumbup: I was just trying to throw out some other potential causes, since a number of other digital cameras have the same problem and show the same banding issues.

Good luck, figuring it out.

Here's the answer. "It's a poor craftsman who blames his tools."

 

[Garbz]

What the? How is branding in a photograph not the fault of tools? I can quite comfortably say that no reasonable photo will brand on my camera regardless if it's a high ISO shot at a wedding, a normal shot outside, or a long exposure of the sky. I wouldn't know how to make an image appear branded let alone be able to do it by accident.