Image recovery from Nikon cameras

Nikon is a renowned name in the modern era of digital photography. Its range of digital cameras incorporate advanced and easy-to-use features to lure amateur and seasoned photographers alike. Thanks to the cool and affordable digital cameras, the company has managed to reach tech-savvy young generation.

Being flawless, Nikon cameras have become the preferred choice of many users. But the fact remains, that you can become a victim of data loss if the memory card of your Nikon camera gets corrupted. In such dreadful situations, you can compensate for the data loss by restoring data from an appropriate backup. In the absence of a valid backup, you have nothing better than to opt for an image recovery software.

How corruption takes place?

Memory card corruption renders data inaccessible and thus, proves a frightening experience for anyone who loses his cherished and valuable bank of images. It's also true that human errors often result in memory card corruption.

Therefore, you can reduce the cases of data loss if you handle a memory card cautiously while trying to view, transfer or click images from your Nikon cameras. Let's have a look at the common causes of corruption:

• Switching off the camera while a picture is being written on to the memory card
• Removing the memory card from the camera while it is still on
• Removing the memory card while transferring pictures from a digital camera to a computer
• Removing the memory card from a computer while its content are still open on a computer
• Opening, renaming, deleting pictures from a memory card while its content are open on a computer
• Formatting the memory card in a computer instead of a camera and many others

Fixing a corrupt memory card

The only way to fix a corrupt memory card is formatting the same in your Nikon camera. Formatting installs a new file system in the card as it erases all the old entries.

In order to recover data from a formatted memory card, you have to hunt for a trusted image recovery software. These third-party image recovery tools are available in abundance over the Internet, but make sure you select a perfect tool with recover capabilities.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is an exceptional application which recovers lost or deleted images from almost all major cameras including Nikon, Canon, Sony etc. The digital image recovery utility is available in two different versions for both Windows and Mac users.

Recouping Images Post Memory Card Corruption in Panasonic Lumix GF1 camera

 Memory card corruption is a common problem encountered by most of the users using digital cameras, mobile phones, or camcorders.

Corruption can occur at any point, rendering to inaccessibility of all images, audios, videos, and other digital media files saved in the memory card.

Few common memory card corruption reasons are improper handling of the digital camera, interrupted read or write operation, and malicious software like virus. While an updated backup allows the user to restore all his digital files, its absence can result in loss of beautiful memories. However, there is no reason to worry as the files can still be recouped using an effective third-party Image Recovery Software.

To elaborate the memory card corruption, consider, you have a Panasonic Lumix GF1 camera with SDHC (Secure Digital High Capacity) memory card to store your images. The card worked fine till your camera switched off while you were clicking some pictures (battery empty). Now, when you try to view previously saved images, you get the below error message:

"MEMORY CARD ERROR"

After this error message, all the images saved in the SDHC memory card became inaccessible. As the camera was unable to surmount the above error message, you could not even capture any new pictures.

Cause:

The above error message appears only when SDHC memory card was corrupted.

Resolution:

To overcome SDHC memory card corruption, you need to:

Restore all inaccessible images from valid and up-to-date backup. In most cases, the backup is saved on some other storage media.

In case of backup unavailability, you will need to format the memory card in the camera. While formatting enables you to save new images, it also deletes previously saved images in SDHC card. To recoup lost images after formatting, a commercial Image Recovery tool needs to be used. Such Image Recovery tools can be used by any user, irrespective of his technical understanding. This is because the recovery software are designed to be user-friendly.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is an effective and risk-free Image Recovery Software that recovers lost images after formatting. Compatible with SD, SDHC, xD, CF, and other memory cards, the recovery tool recovers image file types like JPEG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, etc. with different versions designed for Windows and Mac OS X, the software allows you to save recovered images at specified destination.