Nikon D4s images get corrupted
When I work with my D4s raw images in Lightroom 5.4 (latest update), they seem to get corrupted.
Images are imported and while browsing them, I sometimes get a notification that there is an unexpexted end of file for certain images. Also some images look completely corrupted. They are very bright and have vertical color bands.
Once I have this message on my images, Photoshop CS6 can't open them anymore with the same kind of message.
If I take the CF card with the original raw files and I open them with another software such as Nikon NX or photomechanic, I can work with these images and nothing goes wrong. So the current work around is converting to TIFF in either of the previous mentioned softwares and then importing in LR.
But is there a permanent solution? I would love to have my raw files in LR!
And what about the files that have been corrupted? Is there a way to recover them? I don't have all the original raw files anymore
Thanks,
Jerome
JeromeG wrote:
Once in lightroom and working with the images, some of them suddenly showed as corrupt.
Theoretically, Lightroom is bullet-proof, and just like it says on the wrapper: won't write raw files and so can't corrupt them. The cause of such behavior is therefore hardware.
That said, and at the risk of suffering a spanking from Jeff Schewe, it sure does seem like there is an inordinate number of such reports - there's either a lot of bad hardware out there, or Lr has a nasty bug that's currently being denied (publicly anyway).
I hope Jeff Schewe is right: such bug is impossible (virtually, essentially, for all practical purposes anyway..), and if such bug were being investigated by Adobe, they would make sure it was well known by all users via the forums & journal etc. (uh-huh).
Anyway, even if there is a bug in Lightroom, many (probably all) of these problems are caused by failing hardware (or other system problem), so that's the first thing to assume/check.. - disk & ram are perhaps the most common source of such anomalousness.
Beware: initial image in Lightroom is from jpeg preview NOT raw rendering. So, it could be these images were corrupt before they reached Lightroom (even though they looked fine in Lightroom initially) - depends on what you were able to do with them in Lightroom before the corruption became apparent.
Cheers,
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