Digital photography

Ah thanks. Most of those are slight crops, which obviously accentuates things, and the old couple was shot from the hip so it was a little less invasive. The accordion man, who is my favourite, was happy to be subject by virtue of being a street performer though, so that made getting close quite comfortable/made the shot imo.

These vertical bars showed up on about 5 out of 200 or so pics taken on a recent rafting trip. Why is this?

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Probably going to stick them on ebay or possibly forum sell.

Lenses are as follows;

50 1.8
35 2
28-75 2.8

5d plus battery grip

Nissin di622 flash.

Ah would have been interested in the 35, had I not just bought a 40.

GLWS

These vertical bars showed up on about 5 out of 200 or so pics taken on a recent rafting trip. Why is this?

Sensor struggling to cope with large range of tones - dark in bushes/shadows, light in sky?

Possibly the above showing up a fault or beginnings of one in the sensor?

What camera and how old?

I've managed to create odd bars (not exactly the same) by forgetting to dial the ISO down moving from very dark to even just dim light. Basically the camera trying to interpret shutter ghosting.

These vertical bars showed up on about 5 out of 200 or so pics taken on a recent rafting trip. Why is this?

That looks lovely (location, not bars), where were you?

We were in Spruce Woods, mostly.
3 days plus on a raft we built.
Not quite as idyllic as we envisioned, but great fun.

Sensor struggling to cope with large range of tones - dark in bushes/shadows, light in sky?

Possibly the above showing up a fault or beginnings of one in the sensor?

What camera and how old?

The camera is an EPM2 that I bought new within the last six months or so, the lens is the Olympus 17mm 1.8.
I looked into it a little more and found that it might be a problem with iphoto.
This is a new thing to me, only started with this trip, about 10 days ago.
The pics loaded up fine, the editing went fine, the sending to dropbox and transferring to usb stick went fine.
I noticed the problem yesterday for the first time.

Could be a dodgy memory card but the effects from that are usualy more dramatic.

Day four with the Fuji, another open-mouthed musician.

The camera is an EPM2 that I bought new within the last six months or so, the lens is the Olympus 17mm 1.8.
I looked into it a little more and found that it might be a problem with iphoto.
This is a new thing to me, only started with this trip, about 10 days ago.
The pics loaded up fine, the editing went fine, the sending to dropbox and transferring to usb stick went fine.
I noticed the problem yesterday for the first time.

So not visible on back of camera or when uploaded to computer at first?

If so then definitely a software issue.

Yeah, I'm sure now that it's iphoto, confirmed with a number of friends that remember seeing the pics as pristine, barfree.
Somewhat of a relief, but now I need to investigate easy to use pic software.
Any hints?
Something easy to use, no fancy options required.
Thanks all for the help everyone.

Photo mechanic for viewing, Lightroom for editing.

+1 for lightroom, if you get into using sessions and organising into folders, it will make archiving and finding old shoots and images a hell of a lot easier too

I actually use Capture One now but its pretty expensive and designed for use with digi backs mainly

And it crashes. But if you are a pro portrait/fashion/studio photographer it's the best choice. Everyone else, Lightroom. Or Aperature, but I've never used that.

I can stress enough how good photo mechanic is though.

+1 for photo mechanic. Being able to view photos without importing stuff is great. Its amazing for batch saving/resizing and sorting through and rating images.

I can stress enough how good photo mechanic is though.

Sounds like a fairly limited endorsement. :)

I couldn't figure out what I'd use photo mechanic for.

I used to use DxO Pro -> Lightroom, but I refuse to pay the extra for DxO elite just to get full frame. So basically I'm just using Lightroom

Maybe useful on a windows computer. You can view raw files on a Mac without importing to software

I use photo mechanic on a mac, I like it for viewing so I can sort the better images by assigning them a colour with one key then open them all straight into camera raw. Its also useful to quickly zoom to check focus etc..

Fair point, I find lightroom fast and easy to import and sort images such that importing is hardly a chore and then you can rate, assign colours and manipulate images in one program extremely quickly and efficiently.
Also, on Capture One, it should never crash, mine never does. I have pro but have used their free DB version. It requires a minimum of 8gb ram to run smoothly, 16 is recommended.

I've never been on a shoot where it hasn't. Even on pimped Mac Pros. Often due to tethering though.

Photo mechanic is the fastest file viewer out there. So easy to sort the good ones, delete the shit ones straight away, then the best into Lightroom. Makes my workflow faster.

Maybe I need to be clearer on this - don't want to pay more than $100 - 200 all in, Lightroom is like $150 per year.