subject: Photo recovery tips for Kodak digital cameras [print this page] Photo recovery tips for Kodak digital cameras
Kodak's range of point-and-shoot digital cameras has gained wide popularity because it incorporates cameras which are advance yet economical. These cameras are available in different models in interesting color choices. You can click and store hundreds of photos as they all support high capacity memory cards. The only problem which you may face is an unexpected photo loss event. You can come across such an event if your camera's memory card becomes corrupt or you accidentally format it or if you witness an error on your Kodak camera's LCD display. To overcome such situations, you can easily rely on an updated backup, therefore it is recommended you download your valuable photos to a computer or external hard drive regularly. However, if you come face-to-face with an unfortunate data loss situation, in absence of a backup, you can opt for a photo recovery software.
As a practical case, you may encounter any of the following errors while you try and view photos from memory card of your Kodak camera:
"Memory card cannot be read"
or
"Internal memory requires formatting"
Your camera may not even recognize the memory card. As a result, you won't be able to perform any operation related to memory card and camera. And, additionally, the previously saved photos would become inaccessible.
Possible causes
The above issues could surface in the following conditions:
You may not have inserted the memory card properly in your Kodak camera.
You mat not be using a certified memory card
The memory card is not formatted to be used in your Kodak camera
The memory card is corrupt
Resolution and photo recovery
To overcome all the above issues, you could observe the following steps:
Refer to your camera's user guide and follow directions to properly insert the memory card
Replace the card in case it is not certified
Reformat the card in your Kodak camera
In order to fix a corrupt memory card, you have to again to resort to formatting
While formatting will remove all errors and corruption issues, it will also erase the photos saved on the memory card. Therefore, it should be always followed by photo recovery.
You must download a third-party recovery utility from the Internet. Always select a photo recovery utility after getting a preview of recoverable data through its demo version a provision capsuled in most of the good tools.
Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is an easy-to-use software which recovers lost or deleted photos from various digital cameras available in market today including Kodak, Sony, Canon, Panasonic etc. Available for both Windows and Mac OS, this photo recovery software recovers all image formats.
