This is interesting effect

[tecboy]

It was shot in raw. Any explanation what causes this image like this?

 

[480sparky]

Corruption somewhere in the works. I'd check the card first.

 

[Dave442]

My brother had some shots like that from taking them through windows.

 

[Light Guru]

Corruption somewhere in the works

^^^THAT^^^

 

[mdruziak]

The RAW converter isn't working correctly? My Fuji RAW files look similar to that when I view them with Picasa. Since Google is no longer updating Picasa, I've always assumed that the Fuji files weren't supported.

 

[TCampbell]

I'm wondering what software you are using to open the RAW.

It looks like the data isn't being interpreted correctly. The data in a RAW file is stored as a mosaic of red, green, and blue single-channel values. They are not blended colors that have an R, G, and B color component in every pixel (as a JPEG would have). The processing software has to read the data and then perform an algorithm (and there are many) to "de-mosaic" the data... in other words it turns each photo-site (with a single color component only) into a blended "RGB" pixel.

On most Canon models, the mask uses the "RGGB" pattern.

The letters describe the color tile pattern of a 2x2 photo-site matrix. The first letter refers to the color of the upper-left cell, then the upper-right, then the lower left, then lower-right. In other words it would be:

RG
GB

And this pattern would repeat over and over. However, there are variations for many other cameras such as BGGR, GBRG, and GRBG. If you are using non-Canon software and it doesn't understand how to read the data then you'll get a wonky result if it assumes the incorrect pattern.

For example, we're mostly seeing green where we should be seeing blue -- which to me, implies the camera recorded data but the software is interpreting it as the wrong color.

 

[table1349]

Notice the similarity in colors?