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DSC P92 corrupting photos

I have this problem when I download from my Sony DSC P92 to windows 2000 pc. Not sure if being corrupted by camera or by software on computer. Only happens to about 20% of photos downloaded. Any idea's? thanks.

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Robert Prasel
Wed Apr 20 04:22:59 PDT 2005

I have read in the past that there are a few individuals who dropped their cameras in water. After airing them out, they produce interesting saturated colors. Some of their artistic photographs have been published in magazines. Anyway . . .

The first step to determine whether your camera is corrupting them or your computer is to look at them through your camera's LCD without hooking the camera up to the computer. Do any picture look corrupted? If you are already seeing corruption on the camera, then the camera is at fault.

Are you transferring the picture to the computer through an USB cable? Or do you use a memory card reader?

Chieh Cheng
Wed Apr 20 11:42:25 PDT 2005

The photos look perfect on the camera LCD. I was downloading the photos via the carmera's USB but a friend thought that it might be the downloading process of the camera that was the problem so I started to use a memory card reader. It's very hard to tell if they are corrupt because once downloaded I scan through the thumbnails and to check, they seem OK. I also open a couple with windows 2000 microsoft photo editor(MPE)and they also look fine. I have noticed that the corrupt photos aren't first shown on the thumbnails, its only once I have veiwed them fully with MPE that I see the fault and when I come back to the thumbnail it then shows the fault on the thumbnail. It's as if good photos are turning bad.

Once I have downloaded a photo can it become corrupt later or is it that I just didn't see it corrupt went I downloaded it?

I have now been "selecting all" in my photo folder and right clicking refresh thumbnail. That seems to bring up all the faults on the thumbnails straight away without having to veiw them all with MPE. I also have been downloading then to my laptop(windows 98)with the card reader and they are perfect. I think that it might be a program error with windows 2000. What do you think ? thanks

Robert Prasel
Wed Apr 20 15:09:42 PDT 2005

Yeah . . . based on your description, it does sound like your installation of Windows 2000 is corrupting some of your images. I suggest continuing to use your laptop for a while. And if the problem no longer occurs, you can then blame it totally on your Windows 2000 desktop. Maybe reinstalling Windows 2000 would help. Or if it's old, maybe it's time to replace it.

Chieh Cheng
Thu Apr 21 14:09:33 PDT 2005

My DSC92 has developed this problem and it’s definitely the camera. The attached pic looks just the same on the LCD. I'm less than impressed with this camera; it's heavy, takes forever to capture a picture and eats batteries.
Any idea if this can be fixed and how much it would cost? If it's even half the cost of a new camera I’ll be giving this one the bung.

Mark Hermitage
Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:43:14 -0800

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