Digital Recovery

[Justinr]

This has probably been asked before but can any body recommend a good image recovery prog? I managed somehow to delete some files with my Pentax K10 and I have tried a deep scan with MJM but to no avail.

Although the lost photos are not life or death it would be real handy to have them back.

[BernardLanguillier]

This has probably been asked before but can any body recommend a good image recovery prog? I managed somehow to delete some files with my Pentax K10 and I have tried a deep scan with MJM but to no avail.

Photorescue did help me in the past.

Good luck with your files.

Cheers,
Bernard

[Justinr]

Thanks Bernard but alas to no avail. Photorescue found a lot more than MjM but not what I wanted.

I was going through the images at an event, discarding the unwanted ones when it suddenly shifted into 'delete all' mode, whether that is because my thumb slipped or somesuch I don't know, but I immediately turned the camera off to try and save what was on the card. I now have only empty (65kb) shells where I think the pictures were. Next time it might be better to simply allow it to continue and then use a spare card whilst I take the 'deleted' one home to retrieve the pictures by other means. Oh well, we live and learn.

Justin.

[feppe]

If the photos have a significant monetary value, you might want to contact a professional data recovery service. Many offer free quotes, telling you how much they can recover and at what price.

[Rob C]

I don't know if the technology works the same way, but a friend here dropped a hard-drive on which he had stored an entire shoot in Morocco. He spent a fortune with it in different companies and ended up with nothing at all. Fortunately, it was all street stuff and no models, but the disappointment, doubled, depressed him all of last year.

Sometimes best cutting one's losses.

You could drop your cassettes from waist level as often as you liked; it was difficult enough to open them with a proper tool... ;-)

Rob C

[Ken Bennett]

You could drop your cassettes from waist level as often as you liked; it was difficult enough to open them with a proper tool... ;-)

Nah, I could tear open a 35mm film canister in half a second, with my bare hands. But then I had a LOT of practice.

To the OP -- I had great luck with Data Rescue II when the others wouldn't work.

http://www.prosofteng.com/

[Rob C]

Nah, I could tear open a 35mm film canister in half a second, with my bare hands. But then I had a LOT of practice.

To the OP -- I had great luck with Data Rescue II when the others wouldn't work.

http://www.prosofteng.com/

Then you must also have been doing it prior to 1981!

After that era, I discovered tht cassettes became much more difficult to open. I think there must have been a redesign going on behind the scenes. It used to  be very easy to do - just a little pressure on the sides and you could pop the top with your fingernails. In fact, to be brutally honest, I hadn't realised prior to then that such openers were even available; there didn't seem to be a need.

Rob C

[Ken Bennett]

Then you must also have been doing it prior to 1981!

After that era, I discovered tht cassettes became much more difficult to open. I think there must have been a redesign going on behind the scenes. It used to  be very easy to do - just a little pressure on the sides and you could pop the top with your fingernails. In fact, to be brutally honest, I hadn't realised prior to then that such openers were even available; there didn't seem to be a need.

Rob C

No, started in around 1988, did it for ten years as an A.P. stringer. Must have hand-dipped 20,000 rolls of color neg in various motel bathrooms and sporting arenas.

Most of the time, we tried to leave the film leader out, just tear it off to indicate a shot roll. When that didn't work, or we were processing for other shooters who didn't do that, we had to open them by hand. Easy -- you just stick your thumbs inside the film opening and peel it apart.

[Rob C]

No, started in around 1988, did it for ten years as an A.P. stringer. Must have hand-dipped 20,000 rolls of color neg in various motel bathrooms and sporting arenas.

Most of the time, we tried to leave the film leader out, just tear it off to indicate a shot roll. When that didn't work, or we were processing for other shooters who didn't do that, we had to open them by hand. Easy -- you just stick your thumbs inside the film opening and peel it apart.

Must admit - never opened one that way; the exploratory mind boggles!

;-)

Rob C

[JohnPedrick]

Hello Justinr,

You can retrieve all your pics from the memory card of Pentax K10 with the help of Kernel for memory card recovery software which efficiently and instantly recover all pictures either corrupted or formatted or deleted pics from memory card. If you wanna try then check the demo version of the software which can preview the pics and then recover all of them by selecting.

Thanks