Why Do Blues in Pictures Have Lines on Them Written By Swanson Ansertiver terça-feira, 12 de julho de 2022 Add Comment Edit Sign In Sign up Forums All Recent Discussions General Photography Images Practice & Technique Equipment Site & Forum Help Learn How-To Inspiration Gear Business News Explore Browse by Categories Trending Editors' Picks Seeking Critique Photo Of The Day Photo Of The Week Photo Contests Store Hello everyone, Thank you for taking the time to help me out! I just noticed on one of my pictures, that there is a series of blue dotted lines. I just got the Canon 5D Mark 2 and I have a wedding to shoot this Friday! Is this a censor issue, or a CF card issue, software?! I have never seen this before and Im freaking out! Please help! I will list what I was using at the time. Have no idea if this is in more than one picture yet. Canon 5D Mark 2 24-105mm L series SanDisk Extreme 16gb 90mps udma card Chad You need to go to the custom functions menu and disable the alignment marks. (Just kidding.) Do the lines show on the LCD when you zoom in and look closely? If not, it could be your card reader or CF card. I'm *guessing* you don't have another camera body or CF card? If you do, then test the card in another camera. Same problem? If so, then it's almost certainly the card. If not, then the camera circuitry is suspect. Try a different card in the camera. Same problem? Then it's probably the camera circuitry. I'm not saying "the sensor," because it could also be a problem with another component anywhere in the data processing chain between the sensor and the CF card. If you don't have a backup CF and backup body, you SHOULD, to prevent exactly this: I have a wedding to shoot this Friday! ... and Im freaking out!Cards are very cheap. I'd go and buy a couple extra if I were you. Additional advice: I saw your other post. I don't mean to be condescending, but if I were you, I'd get through this wedding (and any other commitments) as gracefully as possible, hold off on other commitments, and start participating/learning in the wedding photography forum. You might not be ready for prime time with regard to your equipment and skills. You have a nice camera, but there's more to it than that. Meanwhile, grab a couple of friends, go to the chapel and reception hall where you'll be photographing, and do your own rehearsal before Friday's big date. Figure out what settings are going to work well for you, so that you're not going to have to figure it out on the spot. Good luck! PS If you're planning on shooting in natural light, first make sure there's enough of it. It's quite likely you'll want a flash, best used for bounce lighting if you have white walls and ceilings. Could be an RF interference. Thank you for taking the time to help me trouble shoot! I have two 16gb cards which will be sufficient. I do understand there is more to it than having " A nice camera " I have been shooting on an low budget Nikon D60 for a long time and was just able to upgrade. I have a 70-200mm F 2.8 lens that will cover the natural light. I also have a speedlight, strobes, etc... The reason I was freaking out, is because I am new to the 5D and wasnt sure if this was a problem with them or not. As far as my other post, that was just something I never learned along the way. I understand that F stop controls flash exposure and shutter speed controls ambient light. Just seemed that no matter how low i tried the shutter, it still did not have the same results so I just did it in post... Believe me, I am not trying to sound like a know it all or someone making excuses, but I am not some person that just went to the store and bought a nice camera then started calling myself a photographer... Anyway, I do thank you very much for your time and really appreciate it! I went back to the raw file, uploaded it, then brought it in to photoshop. The lines are not in that file... Must have had a glitch at some point during post... Fair enough. Sorry for the confusion. Welcome to Canon! (Er... That's not a very good welcome, I guess.) ;-) ... so does it happen with the other card? Do you see it in more frames? The reason I'm asking the last question: Could be the card reader and not the card. To give you a bit more insight into the problem, it would appear some of the data lines are blanking out, which would be the reason that you get evenly spaced lines. If you count the number of pixels between each line, I bet it's some power of 2. Anyway you've still got a glitch somewhere. Did you re-upload the RAW file directly from the card the same way as you had done the first time? You very well might have a bad card with an intermittent problem. The shifting line positions in the image could be an indication of the intermittent nature of the problem. If I were you, I wouldn't trust that card for anything critical (e.g. the wedding) until you can replicate and isolate the problem. If possible, see if you can exchange it for another one under warranty. One thing's for sure, though: If the file made it onto the card intact (at least re one of the uploads), your camera is just fine. Good luck finding the problem. Intermittent electronic ones are the worst! Also sorry for any discouraging words! People buy a camera and then photograph a wedding all the time, usually with some desperate cry for "HELP!" along the way. Chad, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I bought a new 5D mk 1 at the end of it's selling cycle spring 2008, and it had a similar problem as yours out of the box. I tried new CF cards, old ones, shot raw and jpeg, DPP, photoshop, newer battery, older battery, AC power, everything. Turns out it had an internal problem with the card not receiving the complete info from the camera (as Sarah says above, "data lines blanking out"), which was repaired by Canon (California for me, gone about 10 days). If you can get a new replacement from seller, do that. If you send to Canon, I recommend sending a letter outlining description of problem as much as possible, as well as color prints of the problem, circle the problem with a fat Sharpie so they don't miss anything. I was worried Canon would look at mine and say "no problem" since it didn't do it on every picture, but they fixed it fine. If you bought it locally you may be in luck. If net/mail order may be not so good for the upcoming weekend. You could always rent a body, assuming you're in metropolitan area. So what is your backup camera, assuming the 5d was working? My biggest gripe over paying $2200 and receiving a body I couldn't use 100% of the shots was that it was obvious to me that Canon didn't have some QA/QC process where each body is tested with a card and data read on pc prior to selling, since my issue was blatant. My problem was prettier than yours had different colored lines, and some patterns that looked like shotgun blast... Good luck, Tom Thank you again everyone! Not sure if you guys had noticed what I had mentioned in a previous message. Here it is. I went back to my hard drive and grabbed the RAW file that ended up getting the lines while in photoshop. Got it back into photoshop, and there are no lines this time, same file! So this had to have happened while in photoshop, I just noticed it all of a sudden. What are your thoughts on that? Has anyone ever had that happen? Thank you! I didn't miss it -- just didn't have all the details. So the RAW file was never re-uploaded or overwritten? Just reloaded into PS and re-post-processed. Right? If so, wow, that's weird! However, you're correct that all of your hardware (camera, card, reader) are cleared of any wrongdoing. If you did re-upload your RAW file from your CF to your HD, then I'm still betting on an intermittent card or reader problem. Good luck with your wedding! Could have been a video card issue as well. Lots of points of failure unfortunately. Share This Page Forums Forums Members Members Menu gallegosbeficed.blogspot.com Source: https://www.photo.net/discuss/threads/seeing-blue-lines-in-photos-please-help.420586/ Share this post
Hello everyone, Thank you for taking the time to help me out! I just noticed on one of my pictures, that there is a series of blue dotted lines. I just got the Canon 5D Mark 2 and I have a wedding to shoot this Friday! Is this a censor issue, or a CF card issue, software?! I have never seen this before and Im freaking out! Please help! I will list what I was using at the time. Have no idea if this is in more than one picture yet. Canon 5D Mark 2 24-105mm L series SanDisk Extreme 16gb 90mps udma card Chad
You need to go to the custom functions menu and disable the alignment marks. (Just kidding.) Do the lines show on the LCD when you zoom in and look closely? If not, it could be your card reader or CF card. I'm *guessing* you don't have another camera body or CF card? If you do, then test the card in another camera. Same problem? If so, then it's almost certainly the card. If not, then the camera circuitry is suspect. Try a different card in the camera. Same problem? Then it's probably the camera circuitry. I'm not saying "the sensor," because it could also be a problem with another component anywhere in the data processing chain between the sensor and the CF card. If you don't have a backup CF and backup body, you SHOULD, to prevent exactly this: I have a wedding to shoot this Friday! ... and Im freaking out!Cards are very cheap. I'd go and buy a couple extra if I were you. Additional advice: I saw your other post. I don't mean to be condescending, but if I were you, I'd get through this wedding (and any other commitments) as gracefully as possible, hold off on other commitments, and start participating/learning in the wedding photography forum. You might not be ready for prime time with regard to your equipment and skills. You have a nice camera, but there's more to it than that. Meanwhile, grab a couple of friends, go to the chapel and reception hall where you'll be photographing, and do your own rehearsal before Friday's big date. Figure out what settings are going to work well for you, so that you're not going to have to figure it out on the spot. Good luck!
PS If you're planning on shooting in natural light, first make sure there's enough of it. It's quite likely you'll want a flash, best used for bounce lighting if you have white walls and ceilings.
Thank you for taking the time to help me trouble shoot! I have two 16gb cards which will be sufficient. I do understand there is more to it than having " A nice camera " I have been shooting on an low budget Nikon D60 for a long time and was just able to upgrade. I have a 70-200mm F 2.8 lens that will cover the natural light. I also have a speedlight, strobes, etc... The reason I was freaking out, is because I am new to the 5D and wasnt sure if this was a problem with them or not. As far as my other post, that was just something I never learned along the way. I understand that F stop controls flash exposure and shutter speed controls ambient light. Just seemed that no matter how low i tried the shutter, it still did not have the same results so I just did it in post... Believe me, I am not trying to sound like a know it all or someone making excuses, but I am not some person that just went to the store and bought a nice camera then started calling myself a photographer... Anyway, I do thank you very much for your time and really appreciate it! I went back to the raw file, uploaded it, then brought it in to photoshop. The lines are not in that file... Must have had a glitch at some point during post...
Fair enough. Sorry for the confusion. Welcome to Canon! (Er... That's not a very good welcome, I guess.) ;-) ... so does it happen with the other card? Do you see it in more frames?
The reason I'm asking the last question: Could be the card reader and not the card. To give you a bit more insight into the problem, it would appear some of the data lines are blanking out, which would be the reason that you get evenly spaced lines. If you count the number of pixels between each line, I bet it's some power of 2. Anyway you've still got a glitch somewhere. Did you re-upload the RAW file directly from the card the same way as you had done the first time? You very well might have a bad card with an intermittent problem. The shifting line positions in the image could be an indication of the intermittent nature of the problem. If I were you, I wouldn't trust that card for anything critical (e.g. the wedding) until you can replicate and isolate the problem. If possible, see if you can exchange it for another one under warranty. One thing's for sure, though: If the file made it onto the card intact (at least re one of the uploads), your camera is just fine. Good luck finding the problem. Intermittent electronic ones are the worst! Also sorry for any discouraging words! People buy a camera and then photograph a wedding all the time, usually with some desperate cry for "HELP!" along the way.
Chad, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I bought a new 5D mk 1 at the end of it's selling cycle spring 2008, and it had a similar problem as yours out of the box. I tried new CF cards, old ones, shot raw and jpeg, DPP, photoshop, newer battery, older battery, AC power, everything. Turns out it had an internal problem with the card not receiving the complete info from the camera (as Sarah says above, "data lines blanking out"), which was repaired by Canon (California for me, gone about 10 days). If you can get a new replacement from seller, do that. If you send to Canon, I recommend sending a letter outlining description of problem as much as possible, as well as color prints of the problem, circle the problem with a fat Sharpie so they don't miss anything. I was worried Canon would look at mine and say "no problem" since it didn't do it on every picture, but they fixed it fine. If you bought it locally you may be in luck. If net/mail order may be not so good for the upcoming weekend. You could always rent a body, assuming you're in metropolitan area. So what is your backup camera, assuming the 5d was working? My biggest gripe over paying $2200 and receiving a body I couldn't use 100% of the shots was that it was obvious to me that Canon didn't have some QA/QC process where each body is tested with a card and data read on pc prior to selling, since my issue was blatant. My problem was prettier than yours had different colored lines, and some patterns that looked like shotgun blast... Good luck, Tom
Thank you again everyone! Not sure if you guys had noticed what I had mentioned in a previous message. Here it is. I went back to my hard drive and grabbed the RAW file that ended up getting the lines while in photoshop. Got it back into photoshop, and there are no lines this time, same file! So this had to have happened while in photoshop, I just noticed it all of a sudden. What are your thoughts on that? Has anyone ever had that happen? Thank you!
I didn't miss it -- just didn't have all the details. So the RAW file was never re-uploaded or overwritten? Just reloaded into PS and re-post-processed. Right? If so, wow, that's weird! However, you're correct that all of your hardware (camera, card, reader) are cleared of any wrongdoing. If you did re-upload your RAW file from your CF to your HD, then I'm still betting on an intermittent card or reader problem. Good luck with your wedding!
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