Lost Digital Pictures - What’s Next?

Until the advent of digital photography, photographic films were used for the purpose of photography. But digital photography innovation has reformed it in a more realistic and easy job. Today, digital cameras serve as one of the popular medias to achieve digital imaging. Digital pictures so captured can be easily copied or transferred to another digital media without any degradation. Due to this feature and many more, users employ this form of photography at both professional and home fronts. Thus, digital photographs play an important role and keep a special place in everybody’s life . But the worst part is when you lose these life moments, probably due to camera malfunction, accidental formatting or deletion or any other similar reason. Even in such situations, you should not worry about it. Digital Picture Recovery technology is now available that can recover your seemingly lost digital photographs.

Digital photographs might become inaccessible due to reasons like:

Malfunctioning of digital camera Storage card structure corruption Pulling the memory card unexpectedly while read/write process Accidental reformatting or deletion of digital photographs

In all of the conditions, described above, what actually gets deleted is file system entries. These entries are responsible for determining the location of the files on a media, thereby letting the system to access them. If these entries get deleted, system cannot reach to the position where digital files reside and hence, cannot access them. However, the acquired space is marked as free. So, until this space is overwritten by some other data, lost digital pictures can be safely recovered.

Picture Recovery Software can accomplish effective scanning of such logically crashed media and recover all lost and deleted photos from any of the digital media. These tools are competent to recover lost photographs in original format, quality and structure.

Digital Photo Recovery utilities are competent products to carefully analyze the media. Built to provide instant data recovery, these products can be handled without any prior technical skills. Most of such products will display the recoverable digital files in tree structure and hence, you can easily navigate it to recover the desired photographs.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is an advanced and the safest Photo Recovery Software for all digital cameras and media. The software is available in two forms for Windows (Windows Vista, XP, 2003, and 2000) and for Mac (Mac OS X 10.5.x Leopard, 10.4.x Tiger, 10.3.9 Panther). It can recover almost all digital file formats. This non-destructive Digital Photo Recovery application supports all digital camera cards including SDHC, SD, MMC and more.

Recover pictures from the new Samsung ST550

Samsung recently launched a new camera into the market, the Samsung ST550. Being one of the newest cameras in the market, it has many camera lovers eyeing it! The camera has some very fascinating features making it popular among 'click-crazy' youngsters. The interactive touch screen and 'Smart Auto' are two of it's most exciting feature. While the 'Haptic sensor technology' gives us a feed back on everything we do using the camera controls, the 'Smart Auto' allows a user to simply aim and shoot. The scene recognition technology has a 16 different in-built settings to choose from and then shoots the best shot.

All these features make the camera very user-friendly and the perfect camera for youngsters who are not very well acquainted with photography. While every memory captured in the camera is precious when we lose them they cause more heart-ache than anything else!!! Just imagine loosing all those photos because of some silly mistake like re-formatting the card un-knowingly, or thinking you've uploaded the pictures and then deleting them, only to realize latter that they're gone forever!!!

Pictures could get deleted for a variety of reasons:

• If you accidentally format the memory card


• if you over-write the card without realizing


• when you pull out the memory card immediately after clicking a picture. The camera would not have finished writing to the card when it was pulled out.

The ST550 has a 'recycle bin' option. This option has specially been designed to ensure that when a user has second thoughts after deleting pictures, he has a chance of getting them back. The images all get stored in a temporary folder from where they can be re-stored. But when a card is re-formatted, these images get lost forever. This is where we should use picture recovery software. They can easily be downloaded from the Internet. Being easy to use they allow a user to recover deleted pictures themselves, instead of calling professionals.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is one of the many software available in the market for this purpose. It is a highly reliable software and with its simple yet attractive GUI one can easily recover deleted pictures. Stellar photo recovery supports a number of file types etc. Since the file type of the Samsung ST550 is JPEG, all photos deleted from here can easily be recovered using this software.