How to recover digital photos from Camera
Digital cameras have become more common in today’s world. Most of the people will prefer a digital camera to take snapshots because we can get clear images using a digital camera. To expand the memory of digital camera, memory cards are used in digital camera. Memory cards provide space for your photos as you take photos from digital camera. Photos will be saved on the memory card and you can connect memory card to system or some other device to transfer photos from memory card to computer. There are various types of memory cards and storage capacity memory cards ranges from few MB (Mega bytes) to TB (Tera bytes). In digital camera CF cards, SD cards, memory stick and XD picture cards are most commonly used. XD picture cards are commonly used in Fuji and Olympus digital cameras. Mini SD card and Micro SD cards are versions of the SD memory cards, which are used in mobile phones and MP3 players.
When any photo loss occurs from such memory cards then it will make us feel very bad. There are many memory card recovery software’s are available in the market, which can be used to recover lost digital camera photos. Know more. Sometimes we may delete photos from memory card accidentally, then instead of thinking about we can make use of good digital photo recovery software to recover deleted pictures from memory card.
Some of the common scenarios leading to photo loss from Camera are as follows :
Pulling out the memory card from digital camera without switching off the camera or pulling out the memory card abruptly from a digital camera will also lead to photo loss situation. While transferring any files from memory card to system, if you switch off camera or system there may be chances of occurrences of photo loss from the camera.
When any image files are deleted from memory card then such deleted photo files will remain in the same location. However, pointer pointing to those photo files, which tells where exactly the file is located, will get deleted. Therefore, avoid storing any more images onto the same memory card because once the files are overwritten onto the same memory card then it is impossible to recover deleted images. So in order to recover deleted pictures you need to make use of good digital photo recovery tool.
The digital photo recovery software helps to recover photos from digital camera as well as corrupted memory stick. Visit this link to discover the procedure of recovering images from a corrupted memory stick. The most advantage point is that, it is very easy for users to interact with this software, as all steps to recover deleted or lost files are mentioned very clearly with screen shots. One can follow those steps easily and recover all deleted or lost files from memory card. It can be used in different operating systems like, Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows server 2003, and Windows server 2008 also. This software can also be used to recover files from other storage device like external hard drive and USB drives. By using this software you can recover the deleted or lost photos of various formats like JPEG, JPG, TIFF, TIF, PNG, BMP, GIF, PSD etc, also various formats of songs and videos from the memory card. You can also recover deleted photos from Olympus camera & also other brands of digital camera like Fujifilm, Kodak, Nikon, Sony, etc.Demo version of the software is freely available in the internet, which you can download and install in your system. Using demo version of the software you can evaluate the chances of recovery.
Useful steps that will help you use this software are mentioned below:
Step 1: Remove the memory card from the camera, and connect it to a healthy PC where the software has already been installed. Start the application by double clicking the desktop shortcut or by selecting it from the Programs list in the Start Menu. The main window is displayed as shown in Figure 1. Select the "Recover Photos" option as shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1. Home Screen
Step 2: Once you select "Recover Photos" option from figure 1, a new window displays two options namely "Recover Lost Photos" and "Recover Deleted Photos". Select "Recover Deleted Photos" option to manually select the drive / partition from which the photos have been lost and proceed with photo recovery as shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2. Select Recover Deleted Photos Option
Step 3: When you select "Recover Lost Photos" option from figure 3, the next window that appears, displays the connected logical drives as shown in Figure 3. Select the memory card from which you want to recover lost digital camera photos and click on "Next"
Figure 3. Select Logical Drive
Step 4: You can perform an additional search for photos based on their unique signature by selecting the listed file types as shown in Figure 4. You can also select the "Skip" option to skip this step and proceed with the scanning process
Figure 4. Select File Type
Step 5: Once you click the "Next" or the "Skip" button, the software starts scanning the selected drive / partition as shown in Figure 5. While scanning the software displays the Start time, Elapsed time and the percentage of scanning that has been completed.
Figure 5. Scanning Process
Step 6: Once the scanning process is finished, the recovered photos are displayed. The recovered photos can be viewed using the Data View or the File Type View option as shown in Figure 6.
Figure 6. View Recovered Photos
Step 7: To preview the recovered photos, you can make use of the "Preview" option. The "Save Recovery Session" option lets you save the scanned information. This information can later be loaded using the "Open Recovery Session" option so that rescanning the entire drive / partition can be avoided
Figure 7. Preview Photos