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Started Mar 7, 2014 | Discussions
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kirschm New Member • Posts: 9
Re: NX corrupting files

I could now reproduce the issues (and another NX3000 user in a German forum, too)... latest FW v1.1...

Chances are high to reproduce the bug when doing the following:

o aperture Bracketing in A-mode (other bracketings or continious shooting might also work)

o 2 seconds after the last picture is made... go e.g. in Menu and toggle e.g. OIS on/off

... then chances are high to see corrupted RAWs in the RAW  converter...

... as I said... I can reproduce it and another forum colleague, too...

ElviraGrey Regular Member • Posts: 403
Re: NX corrupting files

kirschm wrote:

I could now reproduce the issues (and another NX3000 user in a German forum, too)... latest FW v1.1...

Chances are high to reproduce the bug when doing the following:

o aperture Bracketing in A-mode (other bracketings or continious shooting might also work)

o 2 seconds after the last picture is made... go e.g. in Menu and toggle e.g. OIS on/off

... then chances are high to see corrupted RAWs in the RAW converter...

... as I said... I can reproduce it and another forum colleague, too...

I know this is old but I've recently had this issue with corrupted files on my nx3000 as well and came upon this thread during my research. The issue is only with the raw files when I try to import them into Lightroom. I get a message saying I have an end of file error.

I pretty much came to the same conclusion as you did even before reading your post - that the error occurs when I shoot in continuous mode and then interrupt the camera before it finishes writing the raw files. The slow write time for raws is the only qualm I have with the nx3000 and I know I pressed either the power or playback button multiple times as the camera was still writing sometimes.

I know another poster said it shouldn't be possible to interrupt the camera, but I don't see how it should be different from a computer where trying to open multiple programs at once can lag everything out especially if your processor and or hard drive suck. After reading countless threads in Adobe of people blaming Lightroom/Photoshop and coming up with implausible, fruitless solutions, I decided it must be the sd card or the camera. The camera (or my impatience rather) seems to be the much more likely suspect. My sd card is sandisk and has never created any issues until now.

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Tugela Contributing Member • Posts: 755
Re: NX corrupting files

Most likely what is happening is that the camera is being switched off while it is still busy emptying the buffer to the card, and this of course is resulting in corrupt files. The same thing will happen to any computer if you switch off power while it is writing a file to storage. Depending on what you are doing there can be quite a lag period while the processing is going on, particularly in operations that tend to fill up the buffer, such as burst shooting, video or long exposures.

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ElviraGrey Regular Member • Posts: 403
Re: NX corrupting files

Tugela wrote:

Most likely what is happening is that the camera is being switched off while it is still busy emptying the buffer to the card, and this of course is resulting in corrupt files. The same thing will happen to any computer if you switch off power while it is writing a file to storage. Depending on what you are doing there can be quite a lag period while the processing is going on, particularly in operations that tend to fill up the buffer, such as burst shooting, video or long exposures.

Yep you're right. It actually makes me feel better knowing what caused the file corruptions. I guess I can get a better micro sd card for faster write speeds but I think ultimately the samsung processor is just slow. That's ok with me though, since the camera is so cheap and it's so great at everything else.

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vatazhka Regular Member • Posts: 355
Re: NX corrupting files

Tugela wrote:

Most likely what is happening is that the camera is being switched off while it is still busy emptying the buffer to the card, and this of course is resulting in corrupt files. The same thing will happen to any computer if you switch off power while it is writing a file to storage. Depending on what you are doing there can be quite a lag period while the processing is going on, particularly in operations that tend to fill up the buffer, such as burst shooting, video or long exposures.

That's not a plausible explanation as the power switch is merely a software button. There could be a problem with software routine handling the event of the switch being flipped, but that would be a bug, not a user error.

I have tested my NX mini (which is based on the same software platform as the NX3000) and it doesn't display such behaviour. I'd say that this is a bug specific to NX3000.

...Which leads me to a question: have you been able to reproduce this bug under the latest firmware (v1.11)? It claims to have improved memory card compatibility and also fixed other bugs.

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