Ok..my wife took about 150 pictures today with our Nikon D50 camera.

The first 50 are fine.
The remaining 100 are corrupt.

If you try to open them in PS you get "Could not complete your request because an unknown or invalid JPEG marker type is found" message.

Googled a bit. Found some programs that recover such things...but at a cost, around $150.

Anyone else come across this problem before and found a cheaper solution?

Just curious.
Thanks.

p.s. The camera seems to work fine after reformatting the SD ultra II card.

ssounds like something i think I ran into once-- i renamed all the images and put the .jpg extension at the end of the name and it worked--if I remember correctly.

Did ya try opening it in internet explorer?

Thanks, Scion...
I did try opening them in IE.
Did not work.

Just tried renaming.
Didn't work either.

hmmmmmmmmm, I know this happened to me and I got around it.
thinking.....thinking...
wordpad?
rename as bitmap/ BMP ?

heck, I wonder what would happen if ya tried uploading it to photobucket...
that could be what i did.

tried renaming...nope

I use imageshack...photos are too big to upload there.
Does photobucket allow larger than 1024k?

you can upload any size, it just resizes it automatically. try that

I had a problem once in my Fuji S2...I could see the images on the display on the camera, so i knew they were there......but when trying to download them, the computer said the files were corrupt. I had Lexar cards....I called lexar...they gave me a download for a program called image rescue.......It worked great, and didn't lose anything

PC or Mac? If it's PC with XP, then you can try the error checking/repair facility. On my computer, right click on the drive/camera/floppy, select properties, tools, error checking. Check 'fix file system errors' and 'repair bad sectors'. Has worked wonders for me in the past.

synth...thanks...If all else fails, I'll contact card maker. Good idea.

scion/mason: Tried uploading to image hosting service...didn't work. Good ones would upload, bad ones wouldn't.

bigbuck: Am using XP, so I copied some bad files back to the card. Tried scandisk...didn't work. Good idea though. I've had success with that too in the past...just not with camera card.

Thanks all...I'll keep trying.

Rash,
I can probably getya outta this trouble but need a bit more info...

can you view the
alleged "corrupt" files on the camera itself?

age of camera and storage media

format the pics in the cam were shot in ....Raw,tiff,jpg etc....(and size ya have came set for the images(1024x768 2288x1712 1600x1200 1280x960 640x480..etc)

what type of storge does this cam/are you using (im assuming its a removeable card) ..what type and size

how are you transfering to computer? firewire,usb,card reader etc

and o/s you are using?

and in closing If you still haven't resovled the problem as I said i should be able to help ..i've had this happen many many times to all of my dig cams (fuji,sony,ricoh and olympus...whatever ya do dont take any more pcs on that disc and as im sure ya know in no way shape or form delte any pics ore do any formatting of the card ....

let me know the answers to the above and we should be off and running ...

CB