TastyTrixie: The Wandering WebWhore

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Friday, March 30, 2007

Wah!

WAH!

We just got home from our shooting spree and at least one of the galleries is just FUCKED. A cute/silly one, too! It's like the photos are broken down into big blocky pixel-like chunks and I can't for the life of me figure out WHY. We didn't change any settings on the camera or do anything odd that I can think of. The next set of photos turned out fine, and actually many of the photos within the same set are normal.

Here's what it looks like (you have to click on the small picture to see the problem):

CLICK ON THE PIC TO SEE THE PROBLEM

I have no desire to waste time troubleshooting things like this either. Was it the camera? Was it the connection when I downloaded them? Is it the memory card? WHAT IN GOD'S NAME IS CHOWING ON OUR PHOTOS??? I *have* noticed that it seems like our picture quality has been going down over the past six months and I've blamed our camera maybe just getting old and being overworked, but I've never seen anything this overtly fucked up.

On top of that the past couple of VIDEOS I downloaded from one of our camcorders and edited had problems too (beeps and weird blocky almost-eaten pixel areas). Is it my aura that's causing these problems or what? Again, I hate wasting time trying to eliminate possibilities one step at a time (cable? tape? camcorder? WHAT?). And it seems crazy to just go buy a new camcorder and a new camera particularly when the issues aren't happening consistently.

And on top of THAT? The CD/DVD drive on my new computer I just bought in January is no longer working. What the fuck??

Oh well. I'm just glad *all* of our pics weren't ruined. Maybe I'll buy an inexpensive camera while we're still trying to decide/save up for a fancy replacement. Maybe someone reading this has an idea of what the problem is? If so, fire away . . . it would be a consolation just to know what's wrong even if "what's wrong" is that the camera is totally shot out.

Labels: photography, PHOTOS, webwhore insights, work

posted by Trixie at 3/30/2007 04:47:00 PM -

5 Comments:

Anonymous said...: It's the camera. It must have entered one of the different scene modes. Make sure everything is set to automatic and try again.; 7:17 PM
Trixie said...: It's definitely not an issue with settings or scene modes, that I know for sure.; 8:37 PM
Merrick said...: When technology attacks! Actually, I'd say it sounds more like a problem with your memory card, especially since it is a *frequently used* card. If you think of digital memory in the same way as VHS or cassette tapes, you can understand that some blocks in the card wear out with frequent rewriting, with the earlier portions of the card breaking down sooner than the less-used latter end.

So if you *are* in the market for a new memory card, I'd recommend crucial.com, whom I've ordered both camera and computer memory from. Great service, great product, though sadly no high-speed SD cards.

Good luck! Corrupted files are a pain in the ass; maybe you can edit the photos to have some weird techy-looking effect? It was totally on purpose! ;); 10:43 AM
Merrick said...: BTW the new brunette 'do looks fabulous! So what if scientists say men prefer blondes? *Intelligent* men prefer women who feel great about the way they look!; 10:45 AM
Trixie said...: Thanks muchly, Merrick! After my vent here I did decide to buy a new memory card and what you said was exactly what I hoped to hear, that the constant overwriting on the card could cause problems.

I'm also going to buy some used versions of our camera on ebay since it's not made anymore and there really isn't a proper replacement for it with the same features we're used to.; 4:45 PM