Digital Camera Trouble
You may have noticed that we haven’t posted any Christmas photos yet. There’s a reason. (Actually, there are several, but this may be the most important.) My digital camera—a Canon 20D—is having trouble.
In the past, every great once in a while, my camera would give me a corrupt photo. I didn’t think much of it because it was just one photo out of hundreds or thousands—it must just be a little hiccup. However when I tried to get the Christmas photos off my camera, Adobe Lightroom rewarded me with a “no photos found” message. After fooling around with the camera, memory cards and the computer I came to the conclusion that the camera has a problem writing to the memory cards.
And so, I hunted out some photo recovery software. I’m trying Digital Photo Recovery 3, and it’s only recovered 4 out of 68 photos.
Does anybody have any suggestions on other software or methods to try to recover my photos? Next up, a call to Canon’s customer service. I wonder how much this will cost…
Comment from Pete on January 3, 2008 at 9:32 AM
I've had success recovering files with PhotoRec:
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
But that was after deleting files off a memory card. YMMV with corrupted photos!
Comment from Dan Wolfgang (replied to Pete)
on January 10, 2008 at 12:43 PM
PhotoRec didn't seem to help... I guess I've conceded that the photos are lost. :(