Windows?
Try freebie IrfanView (irfanview.com).
If it won’t do it, I’ve never found anything that would.
M
Mac?
Graphic Converter ..
Eric … do hope that one of these work as it would be such a shame to lose your precious photographs. 🙂
Wendy
Wendy:
Many thanks for your response. I am using Windows XP, but will try and find a graphic converter to see how that goes. I should have asked the people in the camera shop in Naples to let me see the images on the CD before leaving, but there was a major language problem!
Thanks
Eric
Mac:
Many thanks for your response. A very interesting download, but it still did not know the format of these images, and when I tried to open them gave a message that the header was not recognized. Your help is very much appreciated.
Regards
Eric
Eric, found this
"WHEN I TRY TO OPEN THE IMAGE IN PHOTOSHOP I GET THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE:
"The jpeg marker segment is too short"
re:
This problem usually occurs on a Mac when the .jpg and jpeg file-type extensions are associated with a program other than Photoshop.
Go into your CONTROL PANEL and select File Exchange. Click on whatever jpg and jpeg extensions are listed, and then on the Change button. Once you have associated the extensions with Photoshop, they should open properly.
Sounds like they are hosed to me.
If IrfanView wouldn’t touch them. Iview will even open files with the wrong extension. Meaning, it will recognize a tiff, even if it is named ..jpg and etc.
M
Ya, while I was looking for this info for Eric, another had suggested that the message also occurs when a slight sliver of the image did not get copied properly but usually a converter will open it. Since he tried Ifranview and it didn’t work I gave him the other suggestion. I’ve heard of this happening in the past with another person on Tech TV…she did in fact lose her images from China because of a poor burn.
Try the "All media fixer" from www.realconvert.com it have support for jpg files (it might work).
Good luck!
Micke
Im having the exact same problem with pictures i burnt in australia. I am currently emailing Kodak for an answer so as soon as i have anything to give i will post it. Ive got 300 pictures on my CD, and only 6 will open before the Jpeg marker segment to short message comes up.
One question though, when you look at the properties of the pics that wont open does it still say that there is data there, e.g. picture size 700kb or whatever?
brad
