Comments on: How to Recover Lost Images http://digital-photography-school.com/recovering-lost-images Discover how to use your digital camera with our Digital Photography Tips. We are a community of photographers of all experience levels who come together to learn, share and grow in our understanding of photography. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:43:49 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Liliana http://digital-photography-school.com/recovering-lost-images/comment-page-1#comment-71830 Liliana Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:03:33 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/recovering-lost-images/#comment-71830 After reading all of your helpful comments, I used " Zero Assumption" to recover several pictures that were lost or damaged. When I realized that they were missing I freaked out of course. I was still on vacations so I could not to anything. Up to that point, I had no idea that missing/damaged pictures could be restored. I found out after reading this page. I chose Zero Assumption Digital Image Recovery" and it was free. I friend helped me and it took over half an hour. I can´t be happier. Thank you all and thank you Darren After reading all of your helpful comments, I used ” Zero Assumption” to recover several pictures that were lost or damaged. When I realized that they were missing I freaked out of course. I was still on vacations so I could not to anything. Up to that point, I had no idea that missing/damaged pictures could be restored. I found out after reading this page. I chose Zero Assumption Digital Image Recovery” and it was free. I friend helped me and it took over half an hour. I can´t be happier. Thank you all and thank you Darren

]]> By: Danielle Brailsford http://digital-photography-school.com/recovering-lost-images/comment-page-1#comment-50804 Danielle Brailsford Thu, 14 May 2009 09:13:37 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/recovering-lost-images/#comment-50804 Hi Is there a company that i can pay to do this for me?? i don't want to risk doing this myself. I am based int he UK and have a memory card that is not showing any images within the camera or on the computer. Please Help!!! Danielle Hi

Is there a company that i can pay to do this for me?? i don’t want to risk doing this myself. I am based int he UK and have a memory card that is not showing any images within the camera or on the computer.

Please Help!!!

Danielle

]]> By: jackes http://digital-photography-school.com/recovering-lost-images/comment-page-1#comment-32794 jackes Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:51:48 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/recovering-lost-images/#comment-32794 Hi, very nice article. Photo recovery software is best option for recovering photos. Stellar Phoenix <a href="http://www.photo-recovery-software.com" rel="nofollow">Photo Recovery </a>software is best tool for recovering lost image files, photos, digital camera files and damaged pictures in your hard drive and memory card. You can try its demo version which will preview the images. Thanks Hi,

very nice article. Photo recovery software is best option for recovering photos. Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery software is best tool for recovering lost image files, photos, digital camera files and damaged pictures in your hard drive and memory card. You can try its demo version which will preview the images.

Thanks

]]> By: reeflections http://digital-photography-school.com/recovering-lost-images/comment-page-1#comment-25161 reeflections Tue, 15 Apr 2008 02:20:42 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/recovering-lost-images/#comment-25161 If you are really a geek, you could also use some free command line forensic tools such as <a href="http://foremost.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">Foremost</a> and the <a href="http://www.sleuthkit.org/sleuthkit/index.php" rel="nofollow">Sleuth Kit</a> (with out without <a href="http://www.sleuthkit.org/autopsy/index.php" rel="nofollow">Autopsy</a> browser). If you are really a geek, you could also use some free command line forensic tools such as Foremost and the Sleuth Kit (with out without Autopsy browser).

]]> By: Daniel http://digital-photography-school.com/recovering-lost-images/comment-page-1#comment-25101 Daniel Sun, 13 Apr 2008 12:28:09 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/recovering-lost-images/#comment-25101 corrupt images are the worst. most recovery programs work of file systems (fat32, NTFS, HFS, etc.) and not on actual file structure. unlike film where a messed up negative can still be recovered it is alot harder to recover a messed up file. JPG recovery programs alone are rare because the algorithm used to recover them is very complex to say the least. RAW image files are that much harder because of all the proprietary formats. having a 1 where there should be a 0 can throw off the entire makeup of the image itself. as for the previews, i had a similiar problem adn this was how it was explained to me by the photo prof. at my college: you get the thumbnails because alot of cameras adds a preview image to the beginning of the file header. its a form of steganography. your computer will try to create its own thumbnail from the image but in some cases it may read the thumbnail from the file that the camera created. i have yet to ee a program that can recover corrupt files to true blue form. ive taken to backing these up ina seperate folder in case i do find a program that doesnt cost $5000 and is made for police services corrupt images are the worst. most recovery programs work of file systems (fat32, NTFS, HFS, etc.) and not on actual file structure. unlike film where a messed up negative can still be recovered it is alot harder to recover a messed up file. JPG recovery programs alone are rare because the algorithm used to recover them is very complex to say the least. RAW image files are that much harder because of all the proprietary formats. having a 1 where there should be a 0 can throw off the entire makeup of the image itself.

as for the previews, i had a similiar problem adn this was how it was explained to me by the photo prof. at my college:

you get the thumbnails because alot of cameras adds a preview image to the beginning of the file header. its a form of steganography. your computer will try to create its own thumbnail from the image but in some cases it may read the thumbnail from the file that the camera created.

i have yet to ee a program that can recover corrupt files to true blue form. ive taken to backing these up ina seperate folder in case i do find a program that doesnt cost $5000 and is made for police services

]]> By: Matt Kadey http://digital-photography-school.com/recovering-lost-images/comment-page-1#comment-25091 Matt Kadey Sat, 12 Apr 2008 19:04:41 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/recovering-lost-images/#comment-25091 Recently returned from Asia and after I put my images from Laos on the computer I went to open some of the images from Adobe Bridge and while some are ok, some of the pictures go crazy (e.g. half the picture goes blank). The weird thing is on the camera screen I can see the full image that was shot in Raw. Also, originally the thumbnails on the computer look fine. It is only when I click on the thumbnail that things go bad. I tried downloading on another computer and the same problem so obviously it is a issue with how the images were stored on the memory card. Any ideas? Do you think some of these programs will work? Recently returned from Asia and after I put my images from Laos on the computer I went to open some of the images from Adobe Bridge and while some are ok, some of the pictures go crazy (e.g. half the picture goes blank). The weird thing is on the camera screen I can see the full image that was shot in Raw. Also, originally the thumbnails on the computer look fine. It is only when I click on the thumbnail that things go bad. I tried downloading on another computer and the same problem so obviously it is a issue with how the images were stored on the memory card. Any ideas? Do you think some of these programs will work?

]]> By: brian http://digital-photography-school.com/recovering-lost-images/comment-page-1#comment-25063 brian Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:34:33 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/recovering-lost-images/#comment-25063 Test Disk / Photo Rec is already mentioned here. I want to re-emphasis it. I've use Test Disk without any hitches other then the fact that this program currently does not support high capacity memory cards. I've even recovered files after reformating my memory cards. See http://www.cgsecurity.org for more info. Once I even bunged up the FAT on an external hard drive & recovered everything on that drive. It was a life saver of my lost data. Test Disk is free & without any strings attached. Test Disk / Photo Rec is already mentioned here. I want to re-emphasis it.
I’ve use Test Disk without any hitches other then the fact that this program currently does not support high capacity memory cards. I’ve even recovered files after reformating my memory cards. See http://www.cgsecurity.org for more info. Once I even bunged up the FAT on an external hard drive & recovered everything on that drive. It was a life saver of my lost data.
Test Disk is free & without any strings attached.

]]> By: Nancy http://digital-photography-school.com/recovering-lost-images/comment-page-1#comment-25060 Nancy Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:00:27 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/recovering-lost-images/#comment-25060 I wish that many of these articles had a link on the side to make them printer friendly. I tried to print this one and it printed all the pictures, links and things I didn't want. It would be much easier than copy and paste if it had a link. Just my opinion but it is worth a thought. I wish that many of these articles had a link on the side to make them printer friendly. I tried to print this one and it printed all the pictures, links and things I didn’t want. It would be much easier than copy and paste if it had a link. Just my opinion but it is worth a thought.

]]> By: Fort Myers Wedding Photography http://digital-photography-school.com/recovering-lost-images/comment-page-1#comment-25034 Fort Myers Wedding Photography Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:08:42 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/recovering-lost-images/#comment-25034 Sometimes software just software just won't do the trick. We had to use data recovery company... It cost about $350 for the recovery of 200 images. That was also the last time we used a compact flash card made by someone other than SanDisk... For professional photography it just is not worth saving a few bucks to then have a failure. Sometimes software just software just won’t do the trick. We had to use data recovery company… It cost about $350 for the recovery of 200 images. That was also the last time we used a compact flash card made by someone other than SanDisk… For professional photography it just is not worth saving a few bucks to then have a failure.

]]> By: Hazel Erikson http://digital-photography-school.com/recovering-lost-images/comment-page-1#comment-25025 Hazel Erikson Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:08:46 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/recovering-lost-images/#comment-25025 I burned a DVD full of photos and it verified. The next time I went to view the photos, it said the DVD was blank. Any ideas? I burned a DVD full of photos and it verified. The next time I went to view the photos, it said the DVD was blank. Any ideas?

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