Found this on an Apple Support page: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213969?cmdf=legacy+camera+mac+recovery "Starting in macOS Sonoma 14.1, only cameras and video output devices that use modern system extensions are supported on macOS. This modern ...
24-240 (Canon). My bad ... seems it is a lens correction from Adobe Lightroom. Remove the correction, smearing goes away. Probably something to bring to Adobe's attention! Funny that it is only SOME of the images and not all of them...
