Why is my A65 taking double photos every time?

hollah · May 17, 2013

Let me preface by saying I have consulted the manual, tinkered with settings on my own, and made several Google attempts to find this answer on my own.

I don't know what in the world I did this morning when I was familiarizing myself with all the settings and menus, but every time I take a single photo two images are recorded to the card. After every photo a message that reads, "Processing image. Please wait..." pops up and then two images that are veeeeeery slightly different from one another are written to the card. Why is it take 2 photos back to back? This is only in the priority & manual modes. In auto it only takes one photo. Camera is set to single shooting. I've gone back to try and return everything to how I found it... but no luck.

Any advice?

Thanks in advance!

-Holly

Kolia · May 17, 2013

Shooting in RAW + JPG mode ?

hollah · May 17, 2013

Camera is set to "Fine", which I assume means a higher quality JPEG than "Standard"?

Thank you for replying!

Designer · May 17, 2013

Aside from the "quality" setting, i.e. "fine", there is another menu item where you can choose "RAW + JPEG".

You can either change it to "JPEG" "RAW", or leave it set to both file types.

The reason your camera wants you to wait is because it is writing data to the SD card.

There is probably a way to return all settings to "default" - consult your manual.