hmm i cant say that i have an idea of how that happened...but in my experience, on my good ol canon powershot s30, any shots that looked weird usually fixed itself...so good luck! honestly, i kind of like the effect that it gives the photos! =)

That's really bizarre, is it happening with different settings? Fingers tightly crossed it's the CF card!

I like the colors and how the lines give some kind of techno feel to the shot. Hope your camera is well, though.

At first I thought it was some Photoshop effect, heh. That looks really weird. If I had to say something, I'd think it has to do with the sensor. Good luck with that.

it happened to me twice on my 300D where the lower half portion of the image captured is discolorized, appearing like it is cross-processed or something. i hope yours would just fix itself too.

Crap. Yes, that would suck. But surely canon would have to fix that for you for free. There couldn't possibly be anything that you did to cause that.

Good news! It's the CF card. My still-under-warranty CF card! Thank god. I went to bed thinking about this and woke up thinking about this, and really should have done all this checking last night, but I didn't want to overlook something and then go to bed convinced something was horribly wrong with my camera. Somehow not knowing was almost better.

So this morning, the first thing I did was to try out the camera with the fully recharged battery. I still got these weird lines. Then I used an old 16 MB card (!) that I had lying around, instead of my regular 1 GB card, and got a beautiful shot.

This is all the more exciting because it's snowing out today, so I really wanted to get out there today!

Thank you all for your comments. I am glad RainKing, that it's NOT the sensor. And Andreas, I agree with you about the techno effect it gives. I think I'll have to take some shots using this card before I have to send it back!

Dr. Doodle, actually there was a potential cause that I was worried about. Remember over Xmas when the camera crashed onto a concrete floor?

The big question is: how are you going to replicate that great effect in post-processing?:-) It really makes this capture unique, love it!

I love this effect - if only it was easy to reproduce without having a faulty CF card! I like the origami too!!

hmmm.... like others, i also thought it was some sort of a PS effect or a shot taken thru a blind or somehting. I have to say that I kinda like it. I love the origami creature! Looks like a space ship or a crab. Soo weird that a faulty CF card can distort images in this way. so weird.

frisky? - It is a crab, actually. I didn't make it though. I got it from a crab restaurant (Kani Doraku) in Osaka, Japan, along with a big cardboard crab hat.

I think I may have to try this photo again with a working CF card. I was so upset by the weird results I was getting that I didn't even straighten the crab out!

Glad to hear it's just the CF card and not the entire camera. I really like the lighting in this shot and think it'd look great even with those crazy lines. You should see if you can keep the card, it'd be like "Digital Cross-Processing" in a way =P Though recreating a similar effect in Photoshop is pretty easy...

Err.. I meant the shot would look great even WITHOUT the crazy lines. I swear I need a comment edit button x_X

Glad to hear. Phew. :)

I love this picture. Don't return the card, just auction it on Ebay as a piece of creative photography. Or hang on to it to make your career. I can see it now, your memoirs that disclose "my famous life was only made possible by my CF card". :)

Great picture. Reminds me of a shot of a television screen.