How to Recover lost photos from Compact Cameras

A compact digital camera is one of the greatest gifts of advancing technology. Thanks to the advent of digital camera, creating bank of memories is no more a daunting task. Creating and sharing digital photos has become very convenient because of availability of feature-rich models in abundance. These cameras, though, small in size deliver great results by offering incredible photo quality to the consumers.

Moreover, these cameras can be trusted to create huge amount of photos since they use high-capacity memory cards. Memory cards have their own limitations as they are often prone to corruption in events like interruption in read/write process, file system damage or a virus attack. To tackle such situations, you can restore lost data after corruption from an updated backup. However, if there exists no backup, recover photos using an effectual photo recovery software.

"Prevention is better than cure." The memory card corruption can be prevented if you are aware of the causes behind it. Let's have a look at the detailed causes of memory card corruption which render a compact camera useless:

• Removing the memory card while its content are still open on a computer
• Pulling out the memory card while a photo is being written onto it
• Using the memory card to store photos while a compact camera is running on low batteries
• Unexpected shutdown of a compact camera in the middle of a write process
• Using the same memory card in other host devices
• Formatting the memory card in a computer instead of a compact camera
• Virus attack and many others

It is evident from the above causes that human error is often at the root of the problem. Such problems are inevitable until you handle a memory card carefully.

While the memory card can be fixed by formatting, it is not always an easy choice for those who are ignorant towards the concept of photo recovery. These tools are your best friends when you have lost photos due to memory card corruption as they have the power to extract all your data from the formatted media.

Advanced Photo Recovery is a well-acclaimed Photo recovery software which recovers lost/formatted/deleted photos, audios, videos etc from multiple compact camera brands like Nikon, Sigma, Sony, Canon and others. The photo recovery utility is available for both Windows and Mac users.