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Title: Help with D800 corrupt files
Post by: hollyonline on August 11, 2013, 06:39:35 PM

Hi everyone

I'm completely new, I'm actually a timelapse cameraman, and I've got 5 consecutive corrupt NEF files from a D800 body - could it be a corrupt card, or data compression board in the camera (?) - but either way I have some corrupt files. Is there any way you know of being able to recover the main data? On the plus side, it's a timelapse sequence in a studio so all lighting, exposure is the same across all the files, good and corrupt.

I can upload them to Dropbox, or send them privately to anyone who might be able to help or suggest anything.

Thanks
Robert
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www.roberthollingworth.co.uk

Title: Re: Help with D800 corrupt files
Post by: Phil Harvey on August 11, 2013, 07:45:16 PM

Hi Robert,

If you upload them and send me a link I'll take a look at them tomorrow. My email is philharvey66 at gmail.com

- Phil

Title: Re: Help with D800 corrupt files
Post by: hollyonline on August 12, 2013, 04:47:23 AM

Hi Phil

Thanks. I've emailed you the link to them.

Much appreciated,
Robert

Title: Re: Help with D800 corrupt files
Post by: Phil Harvey on August 12, 2013, 07:32:32 AM

Hi Robert,

Sorry to say that the data in the first 4 files you sent is garbage, and no useful image can be recovered.

The 5th file is mostly good, with only a small part of the raw image being lost, and there is a full-sized (7360x4912) embedded jpeg in this image that may be recovered:

exiftool -jpgfromraw -b FILE > out.jpg

- Phil

Title: Re: Help with D800 corrupt files
Post by: hollyonline on August 12, 2013, 10:35:27 AM

Ah, that's a shame. Thank you for taking the time to look at them. Not sure how what occurred. Very frustrating!

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