DSLR image

[04Stefan07]

Sometimes an image here and there turns out like this.

Does anyone know why?

[Octane]

Your memory card is screwed -- time for a new one.

H

[04Stefan07]

Really? I was hoping it would be something that is cheap to replace, I thought it was the sensor or some expensive component in the camera.

Thanks for that!

[ZeroID]

Have you tried reformating the card ?

[MrB]

It has happened to me only once, with a 400D and CF card. It has never happened again with that card, but then CF cards(by spec) have some very clever 'wear leveling' management firmware that may have flagged the bad memory cell(s) so they aren't written to again.
SD cards don't have this(or didn't, maybe they do now?)

The affected shot was a one-off that couldn't be redone(live subject), so I was pretty gutted.
I shot in RAW only(not +JPG) but found some software online(can't remember it now) that was able to extract an unaffected JPG image from the data. Thankfully too, as it is one of the best photo's I've ever shot.

[04Stefan07]

Yeh I have done that.

The card works fine and I will continue to use it. I get an image like this once every now and then.

[troypiggo]

Andy Warhol took a photo of a plane?