Leica M-E Wedding. Corrupted Files, Any Help?

[huntjump]

So I shot a wedding this weekend, and rented an M-E to try out. It was cheaper than the m9, so I went with it. I had a blast shooting with it, and overall had a very successful day.

Bad news for me came at one of the worst times: I mistakenly borrowed another friend/photographer's 8gb SD card as the 36 mb files from the M-E were eating memory fast (I've only ran 2gb ultra's in the m8 I had). The ceremony I smartly shot with two cameras, so I wasn't at a total loss. But all my M-E files appear corrupted from the 8gb SD, like what is attached.

A) has anyone seen this before and how did this happen?
B) My original DNG files will no longer open or upload into Lightroom, but they did initially...so I'm not sure what happened. I think one potential issue may have been somehow an overlap in the Sequence (therefore file names) occurred with these files and another card I shot with.
C) any suggestions or are these all caput? Every single one is a split screen just like this.

Thanks.

 

[FrozenInTime]

There is a don't import suspected duplicates on the RHS of the lightroom import dialog - try unchecking that and trying again.

For SD cards - panasonic gold SDHC cards have a buffered write which seems more robust than some of the Sandisk cards.

 

[johannielscom]

a) Yes, I've see it before (from others) and think it's a camera malfunction. The purple side of the shot belongs to the lefthand side of it
b) always set the file sequence to continuous, for some reason many cameras allow it to start a sequence over but most of the time that's not what you want. You should have checked the setting
c) these are all caput
d) never borrow somebody else's memory cards, camera's or anything while going out to shoot a wedding without test driving it extensively before the event. You're in luck for bringing a second camera!

 

[huntjump]

Agreed on all points Buzz. This wedding was somewhat spur of the moment, they had no real budget and I'm quite good friends with them. (and I'm aware of the rule about not shooting for free for friends...) In this case, these are two of the nicest and relax people in my life and when I told them of the error they laughed. And lucky for the backup body, plus another photographer friend of ours had a D7000 + 70-200 covering it.

Wonder if I could slice and dice these and color correct the raw files to get it to match... lotta effort and probably wont match, worth a try maybe