What causes this?

[karstic]

Olympus C-2100 UZ
128mb Scandisk Smartmedia card

 

[karstic]

Another one

 

[karstic]

The pictures show up OK in the preview mode on the camera.

The thumbnails show up fine in Windows Picture and Fax Viewer, but when I open them in paint or view them in the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer slideshow the pixelation shows up.

Any ideas?

 

[James Vee]

Try a new CF card? I've got a 512 Scandisk card and it fried my CF drive on my computer within seconds.

 

[foulshot]

Karstic, are you using a program like Photoshop, or just Paint? I'm assuming that you shot these in JPEP mode. There could be something in the conversion process.

Or it could be a bad memory card too.

 

[Lan-Lord]

that is some weird stuff. My lead suspect would be the memory card (or possibly your card reader corrupts it??)

Funny that you can preview the image in the camera fine.

 

[Atwater]

Since you can download the pictures to your PC, and you say the thumbnails appear normal, it's probably got nothing to do with the camera. My guess would be your video card (on your PC's mother board). Years ago, when memory was a premium, this was fairly common. Upgrading your video card would probably solve the problem. Your cameras user manual should have recommendations. Other causes would be system ram, or virtual memory settings on your PC.