Pixelated Images when Importing from SD Card

Hi there,
Im having a recurring issue when importing images from my SD Card.
The issue is that when I try to view in the 'Loupe' view, the images don't load at full size, the '1:1' is absolutely tiny?
Any ideas??
Thank you.

Yeah, the black bars at the top and bottom of the tiny preview indicate it is a camera thumbnail, not a large-sized preview embedded in the raw file. Without seeing the raw file, itself, it’s hard to know if there is actually a reasonable-sized preview embedded in it or just the tiny thumbnail. If you want someone else to take a look, upload a raw file to http://www.dropbox.com/ and post a public download link to it, here.
And more importantly, as was just asked, does the image import ok. If so then you’ll just have to do the importing, first, before you sort through what you want.

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Date/Time:
2012-05-23 08:12:54 +0200
OS Version:
10.6.8 (Build 10K549)
Architecture:
i386
Report Version: 7
Command:
iPhoto
Path:
/Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/MacOS/iPhoto
Version:
9.2.3 (9.2.3)
Build Version:   1
Project Name:
iPhotoProject
Source Version: 629052000000000
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launchd [108]
PID:
351
Event:
hang
Duration:
12.62s (sampling started after 2 seconds)
Steps:
87 (100ms sampling interval)
Pageins:
41
Pageouts:
0
Process:
iPhoto [351]
Path:
/Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/MacOS/iPhoto
UID:
501
Thread 1adf
DispatchQueue 1
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87 ??? (in iPhoto + 65994) [0x111ca]
87 NSApplicationMain + 574 (in AppKit) [0x963d9289]
87 -[NSApplication run] + 821 (in AppKit) [0x963e11f3]
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I resized this image to 1200 x 800 and have just cropped a section to show you.
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LN
Message was edited by: LarryHN

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