Digital cameras are most widely used for personal uses as well as for professional photography. It a common scenario that you may lose the clicked photos from the camera SD card in various situations such as while transferring photos from camera to computer system. There can be various other photo loss scenarios like: issues with the storage media/SD card , accidental deletion of photos, accidentally formatting the memory card, photo loss while data transfer from camera to system or vice versa and software failure etc.
How to recover lost photos from a digital camera?
In a digital camera, a flash memory is used to store the clicked photos known as SD or SDHC card. The type of memory card may vary such as SD card, SDHC card, SDXC card, CF card, xD Picture Card, multimedia card MMC, MicroSD card, xD card, MicroSDHC card, MicroSDXC card, SD mini or Memory Stick etc.
When you press ‘delete’ button to delete a photo from your camera, it deletes the item from memory. However it isn’t actually erased, only the space will be marked as free (reference to access it, gets deleted) and the allocated space is freed for further use. Same is the case for memory card formatting. Thus there are chances of photo recovery but if the deleted data has been overwritten by some other data then it cannot be recovered anyway.
As there is no built in trash/recycle bin in the camera from where you can restore the deleted photos back. So there is no direct method for performing photo recovery from a digital camera. You require using some professional photo recovery tool that can be run over some Windows based OS with the problem digital camera/SD card attached to it. These tools let you scan for the deleted items and let you preview the list of all recoverable items. Later on, you can save the recoverable items at your desired location.
How to perform photo recovery using photo recovery software?
- Download the software from: http://www.stellarinfo.com/digital-media-recovery.htm
- Install the software on your Windows based system.
- Attach the camera memory card to the system. Run the software.
- The main interface will be opened. Click the option to 'Recover Photo, Audio, & Video'. From the listed media devices, select the one that is to be recovered.
- After selecting your problem media/memory card click ‘Scan now’. The scan process will begin; the recoverable files will be shown in the left pane of the window. Once the scan process is completed, you can select the all/desired item listed in the left pane and preview them.
Note: You can also choose the ‘Advance Scan’ option. This option lets you perform customized recovery on basis of file types. You can choose to scan the media according to the file list (i.e. ‘Photo’, ‘Audio’, or ‘Video’) or the data range from the storage media
- Finally you can select all or desired items from the recoverable items list and save them at your desired location.
Using the above software, you can recover lost photos, HD MOV files and other multimedia files from memory cards, digital cameras and internal & external drives. It supports recovery of different image, audio and video file formats.
It supports BMP, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, Mamiya (MOS, MEF), Paint Shop Pro Image File (PSP), and Picture File (PCT) etc. image file formats. The supported audio file formats are: RPS, MP3, AU, WAV, MIDI, OGG, AIFF, RM, WMA, RA, M4P and M4A.The supported video file formats are MP4, 3GP, AVI, MPEG, Matroska Video File (MKV), AVCHD Video File (MTS), Divx Encoded Movie File (DIVX), MOI Video File, Video Object File (VOB), OGG Media Player (OGM), 3G2, ASX.
The above given are some common features of “Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery (Windows)” software. The software is laced with advanced and powerful photo recovery features.
