Thumbnail & photo previews - not always?

I've noticed that only some of the photos from a download (from my camera) will show up as a preview-thumb on my desktop--the others show up as mini Preview icons.
I don't understand because the images are coming from the same camera and are all jpgs.... any help?
Thanks.

I had an old Nikon that exhibited the same behavior--some photos, usually the first ones--would seem to have thumbnails, and others wouldn't. When I switched to using Image Capture to download them, instead of just mounting the card and dragging the photos to the hard drive, and selected the Image Capture preference to create thumbnails, the problem was solved.
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