WTF did my camera do?

Almost certainly nothing wrong with the camera or the card, as Paul says it’s usually caused by interruption of the file writing process.

The best thing to do is to reformat the card, by choosing the “format” option in the camera’s menu system, or by reformatting it in a card reader.

Many people, including myself, reformat their cards every time they download them. I haven’t had this situation occur for a very long time, and I shoot many tens of thousands of photos a year.

Richard.

Possibly caused by interruption of the file writing process as the image was being written to the media card?

I’ve lost whole images on my Fuji S5000 by switching between camera and review modes whilst it is still saving/writing a series of images taken moments before in “continuous shooting mode”. Obviously it takes it longer to save a series of shots than it does to save a single image, and in my wish to quickly review them to delete the worst ones I’ve been too quick off the mark to switch between modes and thus lost the lot 🙁 .

Or perhaps its a sign that the card had a few bad sectors – though usually software works around bad sectors rather than just writing data into them.

Paul F

that’s a corrupt image – I used to get that occasionally with one of my memory cards.

get a new card and it probably won’t happen again