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| 554201 | 2007-05-29 09:50:00 | Is there any way possible to restore digital photos off a 1gb SD card? Please help me out here becuase I have lost lots of precious pictures of an overseas tour which is guttering!! I live in christchurch, so please recommend only local businesses . The camera involved in deleting them was a "Kodak EasyShare C653" and the SD card is a "Silicon Power Ultima 1GB SD Card" . Thanks Justinsg |
justinsg (11165) | ||
| 554202 | 2007-05-29 10:05:00 | Zero Assumption Digital Image Recovery 1.0 Zero Assumption Digital Image Recovery is an easy to use specialized data recovery tool. It is designed specifically to work with pictures taken by digital camera. Its wizard-style interface is quite simple and it does not require any knowledge of deep internals. Supported formats are TIFF, Exif, JPEG and GIF. Original Digital Image Recovery was freeware, but ZAR 8.1 seems not? The digital picture recovery functions are implemented in the trial version of ZAR 8.1 in full. Hence you just need to download the evaluation version of ZAR 8.1 and it does the job at no charge. So, picture recovery functions are actually freeware. There are no plans to charge for it. www.z-a-recovery.com |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 554203 | 2007-05-29 10:42:00 | Hi,Ive used the above beast and it works well. If you have a card reader to put your card in rather than having the card in the camera it will be much faster or a least it is in my case. Odds are you won't get all images back but what you do get back has to be a plus.:thumbs: |
Ric Adams (12341) | ||
| 554204 | 2007-05-29 19:54:00 | I used the above software on a camera that had been through an ancient airport scanner in india Recovered 92 of 126 photos And my friend was rapped as the critical ones were there . ie Her with her arm around Bono from U2 LOL |
Tony.br (4018) | ||
| 554205 | 2007-05-29 20:26:00 | Perhaps your friend's camera got turned on and the delete or format buttons pressed while in the bag. It's unlikely the airport scanner was responsible. The US did some testing in 2004 - " At the request of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the ITIP Testing Subcommittee studied the effects of checked and carry-on baggage screening devices on electronic storage media. ITIP performed tests on various electronic storage media formats (Secure Digital, Compact Flash, Memory Sticks, etc.) using Smith Heimann 7555i X-Ray scanner (used at security check point stations), RapidScan 520 X-Ray Scanner (used at security check point stations), the InVision CTX 5500 Explosives Detection System (EDS) (used to scan checked baggage) the Sentrie walk through metal detector and the Garrett hand held metal detector. Results: No apparent adverse effect on any of the media cards, or to the digital camera. Contents of cards remained intact throughout all of the passes with all of the equipment. Image quality remained uncompromised. Cards were undamaged, and files could be written to, and read from each one. Conclusion: There does not appear to be a risk to digital media cards or digital cameras in terms of erasure of files, loss of image data, or physical damage when subjected to the security equipment currently in use. " www.i3a.org The US Postal Service radiation against anthrax however can kill flash cards, iPod, anything electronic |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 554206 | 2007-05-29 20:51:00 | Sorry there is no doubt it was the scanner You must have missed the comment "ancient airport scanner in india" meaning it was very early generation The camera was fine before and when you checked it the card was empty The comments about being safe are correct for current generation scanners, not one that may have been 20 years old Come to think of it, I would be worried about going through that with all my fillings :( |
Tony.br (4018) | ||
| 554207 | 2007-05-29 21:27:00 | Sorry, the fact that you recovered most of the photos makes me doubt it was the scanner. Older scanners aren't necessarily more powerful. From the same site I linked earlier: "The technical support center at SanDisk, a prominent manufacturer of digital media, has been closely monitoring the X-ray issue for several years. As SanDisk ships over a million flash memory cards per week, any issues from security devices would quickly become apparent, but the company has received fewer than a dozen reports per year of problems with airport security systems." |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 554208 | 2007-05-30 02:03:00 | Sorry, the fact that you recovered most of the photos makes me doubt it was the scanner . Older scanners aren't necessarily more powerful . From the same site I linked earlier: "The technical support center at SanDisk, a prominent manufacturer of digital media, has been closely monitoring the X-ray issue for several years . As SanDisk ships over a million flash memory cards per week, any issues from security devices would quickly become apparent, but the company has received fewer than a dozen reports per year of problems with airport security systems . " Well all I can say is that they took photos an hour before arriving at the airport and were going to take some just before the boarded the plane . They went to use the camera and it would not work it because the card was corrupted . You should have seen the ones we could not recover . Left and right side reversed . Part pictures, miscoloration and so on |
Tony.br (4018) | ||
| 554209 | 2007-05-30 02:39:00 | There have been cases where low batteries or the camera being switched off while writing to the card have resulted in corrupted cards. The airport scanner isn't the only possible cause and if it was I'd expect all images to be affected. | PaulD (232) | ||
| 554210 | 2007-05-30 02:51:00 | Airport scanners have been in use long enough that we should be seeing many human birth deformities caused by them if they really have anough oomph to erase or modify the pictures on memory cards. The lawyers would have been very busy. So many people are putting things through them, and human errors and random failures are so common, there would be a lot of occurrences of "something has happened to my electronic thing, and I have just passed through the airport security, therefore the scanner did it". The word to remember is "coincidence". Young scientists often need to be reminded that "correlation is not causation". |
Graham L (2) | ||
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