Question about pictures that I took

[twins2011]

Hi my name is Eleasha, and I was using my Panasonic Lumix today during my son's field trip and most of the pictures did not turn out right. Hopefully I will be able to attach a picture to this message. But I am wondering what I did wrong here and how I can fix this in the future. I also have a Nikon D5000 and it also has this problem sometimes. PLEASE HELP ME!

 

[twins2011]

I can't figure out how to upload a picture any way what is happening is that the color is altered in half, or third of the picture.

 

[MLeeK]

Sounds like a corrupt memory card to me.
You have to upload the photo to something like flickr and then use the URL and

tags to post it here.
I am guessing that your D5000 does it when you are using the memory card you were using today.

 

[Kerbouchard]

My answer was the memory card, too. Might not be a bad memory card, but could be from switching the memory card in between cameras without formatting it for the camera that it is actually in.

FWIW, if you really want to get the pictures back, often a memory card recovery tool can recover images that have this problem. Your memory card might have even come with one.

 

[twins2011]

I was wondering if it was my memory card....thank you so much! I guess I had bought a cheap memory card, do you think I can recover the pictures easily with the memory card recovery tool? Where do I get one of those from?

 

[Kerbouchard]

Try download.com and search for memory card recovery. There should be plenty that will let you get a free trial so you can see if they can be recovered before having to pay for anything. Some also allow you to recover up to a certain amount of memory for free. Probably enough to get your pictures back.

 

[MLeeK]

If you order a new Kingston card they come with a free download for a really good piece of software!

 

[Tony S]

what is happening is that the color is altered in half, or third of the picture

If you have the pictures and the colors are off I don't think it is the memory card. This sounds more light a white balance issue where your son was under different types of lighting for the different pictures and the white balance was not set properly. for example on the bus with filtered light, out in the sun, inside under artificial lights. When shot with the same setting these will all have a different color caste to them.

 

[Kerbouchard]

Depends, like you said, if it's an inside/outside type of thing, sure, probably white balance related. I'm thinking it's more of a horizontal line across the frame where part of the shot looks normal and the other half is all messed up. That's pretty common after a while on memory cards that never get formatted where people swap them between different cameras and a computer.

what is happening is that the color is altered in half, or third of the picture

If you have the pictures and the colors are off I don't think it is the memory card. This sounds more light a white balance issue where your son was under different types of lighting for the different pictures and the white balance was not set properly. for example on the bus with filtered light, out in the sun, inside under artificial lights. When shot with the same setting these will all have a different color caste to them.

 

[bazooka]

This happened to me once, but it was from transferring the images from one computer to another. It turned out to be bad stick of RAM. In your case, it could be a corrupt memory card, but also try using a different computer. Inasmuch as you have had the same problems with your d9000, I STRONGLY suspect your computer memory or memory controller is at fault. Do they look fine on the camera lcd (if it has one)?