[Leica] M8 file problems

[richard.lists at gmail.com (Richard Man)]

Not sure what the problem is, but if you shoot in DNG and the image it
got is only 320x240, my guess is that the file is corrupted and it's
only showing you the thumbnail data, which obviously is also
corrupted.

First thing - do not take any more pictures on the card, then may be
try running some kind of image recovery software and see if it can
reconstruct the files better.

Good luck. I hate it when there is only one chance to do something
right, and then technology intrudes... :-(

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Peter Cheyne
<geordiepete211 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> I bought an M8 recently and have a some problems, too many to list in this 
> e-mail, but I'd like some advice to remedy the most serious problem. ?I 
> uploaded 4 files to this Picasa page: 
> ?http://picasaweb.google.com/peter.cheyne/20100122#
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> The first two photos were shot as JPEG and are fine. ?They are the right 
> size and not corrupted. ?The next two pjhhotos I posted there have two 
> serious defects. ?Firstly, even though they are 10MBs each, they are only 
> 320 x 240 pixels. ?Secondly, they look as if they have been cut down the 
> middle then put back together with the left half on the right side and the 
> right side on the left half..
>
> I attached my M8 to the computer and opened them with Picasa. ?This is 
> because I am away from home now and do not have access to my Lightroom 2.0 
> loaded Mac. ?I could not use the Capture One LE software that came with 
> the camaera , perhaps this is because the camera was bought used, and the 
> serial number on the back of the CDROM sleeve has already been used to 
> license another user via a different e-mail address from mine. ?Anyway, 
> Picasa nots on its website that it works with Leica's M8 DNGs.
>
> I took over 70 photos for a lady who wanted images of her holiday cottage 
> and the surrounding area. ?I promised the man who does her websites that 
> I'd get the photos to him bwithin 3 days. ?I thought this promise to have 
> the photos colour-corrected and uploaded withing 3 days was amply 
> conservative, but I never counted on this stumbling block. ? ?I wonder if 
> the problem is because I USB-linked the M8 to the PC, rather than uploaded 
> the data with with a card-reader. ?I ?can't see me getting a card-reader 
> within a couple of days out here in the countryside, but I could trek into 
> the city if I were certain that getting one would solve the problem. ? It 
> seems that the 320 x 240 pixel images are the small images that the M8 
> uses to display the photos on its LCD. ?I have no idea.
>
> Can someone please help?
>
> Peter
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