subject: Recovering Lost Photos From Canon Powershot Sd940 Is Camera [print this page] Canon PowerShot SD940 IS is one popular digital camera used by Macintosh users. With excellent photography qualities, 12 megapixel image resolution, 720p movie capture mode, JPEG/MOV file format storage, and various other imaging features, Canon PowerShot SD940 IS camera finds a great place when it comes to effective photography. Despite the sturdy built it offers, photo loss is not an exception with Canon PowerShot SD940 IS camera. Like all other cameras, digital photos and videos stored in its internal or external memory might get lost for several known and unknown reasons. In such circumstances, if you fall short of restoring the lost photos from your previous backup, a Mac Photo Recovery utility can help.
A Canon PowerShot SD940 IS camera supports standard digital memory cards like, SD (Secure Digital) card, SDHC (Secure Digital High Capacity) card, MMC ( MultiMedia Card), HC MMCplus card, and MMC Plus. Most of the photo loss events take place when these storage media card get corrupt. This happens if you as a Macintosh user of Canon PowerShot SD940 IS camera perform any following or similar actions:
Eject the memory card unexpectedly from the camera or Macintosh computer during an ongoing read or write operation
Turn off the camera while its contents are being transferred to computer
Turn off the camera during a read/write operation
Apart from the above instances, photo loss can also result because of accidental deletion or memory card formatting in Canon PowerShot SD940 IS camera. No doubt, you can regain the access of memory card by reformatting it, but this is not the solution for inaccessibility of photos and videos. To restore deleted or lost photos, you either need to use your last available backup and if unavailable, run a third-party Digital Photo Recovery utility.
For specific Macintosh users, Mac Photo Recovery applications are also available. These exclusive tools are competent enough to scan your digital media card or digital camera on Mac and restore the deleted digital contents to a safe location.
Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery (Mac) is a comprehensive utility designed to recover and restore lost digital photos from media running on Macintosh computers. This Digital Photo Recovery tool is compatible with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, 10.5 Leopard, 10.4 Tiger, and 10.3.9 Panther. With advanced recovery options, the tool supports almost all digital file formats.