TIPS & TECHNIQUES

DATA RECOVERY

Unfortunately, most of us who utilize digital capture will have a problem with lost data - lost images - at one time or another. This can be a real problem which certainly impacts your ability to provide quality images to your customers.

Here are a couple methods used by fellow members to successfully recover that lost data.

1) One of our Sponsors - Fairborn Camera - has a Data Recovery Service which has been used successfully. Contact Paul or Travis at Fairborn Camera for all the details.

2) There are several data recovery programs available. Some are provided by the manufacturer's of the storage media (Lexar and SanDisk) and others are more "powerful" and applicable to all types of storage media. One such program used successfully by the "Woods Brothers" is called "Photorescue" from Datarescue. Demo copies are downloadable and it is available for $29.00. Check it out at www.datarescue.com/photorescue/

 This program is worth installing. It will bring up raw files just like Picture and Fax Viewer.

View RAW files in XP with RAW Image Viewer
Many digital cameras allow you to take pictures in "RAW" format, which gives you a very high image quality. However, XP doesn't support this format by default, so you couldn't use its built in photo viewing and printing features with photos saved this way. Now Microsoft is providing a free tool, the Microsoft RAW Image Thumbnailer and Viewer, that you can download for XP to provide viewing, organizing and printing functionality for RAW image formats of Canon and Nikon cameras. To read more about it and download the tool, see the Microsoft Download Center Web site at:
http://www.wxpnews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=050719TI-RAW



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