subject: Digital Camera Recovery Tips For Beginners [print this page] Digital cameras have brought a revolution of sorts in the field of photography. You can click incredible photos without much hassle with a digital camera. Today, digital cameras are coming packed with various fun-to-use and innovative features to attract photography buffs. Fashion conscious and Internet-savvy youth are also finding it hard to resist these super cool cameras. These cameras use flash memory storage media i.e. memory cards. Their durability and portability compounded by high capacity have given digital cameras an edge. Though, you can completely rely on these memory cards to store your wonderful moments, don't let the false sense of security take over you. The photos can be lost in many events including accidental deletion, unintentional or intentional formatting or corruption. If you ever encounter such situations, be ready to seek help from an updated backup which you might have maintained on your computer's hard drive. However, if you don't possess a valid backup, don't panic, you can use a camera recovery software and recover lost data easily.
Your digital camera may behave abruptly in many situations. As symptoms, you can experience the following while you try and access pictures or videos saved on the memory card:
1.The memory card is not recognized by the camera
2.The moment you insert a memory card in your digital camera, it freezes
The possible reasons behind the above symptoms could be:
1.You are using an incompatible memory card
2.Or your camera's memory card is corrupt
In order to fix the issues, it becomes necessary for you to first compare that you are using the same card as recommended in the user guide of your digital camera. If not, then replace the card with a compatible one.
To fix a corrupt memory card, you must re-format it in your digital camera which should be followed by camera recovery software, in case you end up deleting precious photos and videos.
In order to retrieve lost data, you must download a reliable digital camera recovery software from the Internet. Such third-party tools, being comprehensive, recover data in almost all data loss situations and extract data from a formatted memory card by applying improved scanning algorithms.
Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is an efficient and safe utility which recovers lost or deleted data photos, audios, videos and other multimedia files from multiple digital camera brands. The camera recovery utility is available in two versions for both Windows and Mac users.