albertknappmd Posted March 24, 2007 Share #1 Posted March 24, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) I just noticed that Photorescue v.3 was made available to the public. I learned of this program on Luminous Landscape when on the recent Antarctic expedition of M8 fame/imfamy the few people on board who had photorescue downloaded were able to successfully restore a fair number of unreadable SD and CF cards... My question to all members is the following: Is Photorescue as great as they claim and should we all be downloading it ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted March 24, 2007 Posted March 24, 2007 Hi albertknappmd, Take a look here PHOTORESCUE v.3. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
Shootist Posted March 24, 2007 Share #2 Posted March 24, 2007 Well in my 4+ years of using a digital camera I have never had a card fail, Yet that is. I have all the version of some type of image recovery software that comes with the cards I have bought over the years. I don't see the need to add to my collection at this time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
photolandscape Posted March 25, 2007 Share #3 Posted March 25, 2007 I shot a card full of images last Sunday. I could view them in the camera, but once I tried downloading them, they appeared to have disappeared. I downloaded PhotoRescue and it recovered all 150+ images. For the price, it is absolutely invaluable, and I can't recommend it highly enough. Ed. Just tidying up Steve.<G> Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwelland Posted March 25, 2007 Share #4 Posted March 25, 2007 Cheap insurance. Remember that the download only gets you a trial. To fix you'll need to purchase a key. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy Sanchez Posted March 25, 2007 Share #5 Posted March 25, 2007 Image rescue programs are a good thing to have, and not just in the event a card fails. occasionally a card will be removed inadvertantly from the card reader before it is unmounted (on mac, drug to the trash to eject), or accidentaly formatted in the camera before the images are copied to a hard drive. (don't ask me how i learned this. let's just say a couple times i was in a hurry & forgot which card is which when using two cameras on an assignment with a tight deadline.) from what I understand, most in-camera formatting is actually a 'light' format that merely allows the images to be copied over -- they're not actually erased. if you realize you've made a boo-boo, don't do anything else with the card until you've tried rescuing the images. there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason, that I can determine, anyway, as to WHICH images are written over after formatting a card -- occasionally i've been unable to recover very recent pictures while pictures that are months old are still on the card. Incidentally, i just had my first and only failure with a new, out-of-the-package sandisk ultra II 2-gig card yesterday. when it first went into the camera, it read the card was full. when i tried formatting it, the light blinked for 2-3 minutes. i finally popped the battery out to shut it down. it never did work. I've been using the cards for several years in my digilux 2 and never once had a problem. two other new cards seem to be working OK, but they seem to take 1-2 minutes to format. eventually the light stops blinking and they seem to be working OK. My older cards (same make/model) format in 15-20 seconds. anyone else notice any differences? i'm suspicious that counterfiet cards from china are entering the market. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ulphoto Posted March 25, 2007 Share #6 Posted March 25, 2007 As a newspaper photographer the ability to recover images quickly and sucessfully is essential. We've paid for the program many times over with recovered images. It works well and is fairly fast. Flash memory cards sometimes lock-up when there is a corrupt file present. Its always a relief to see recovered images. Haven't tried v.3 yet. The image rescue programs that come with cards work too and they're more or less free. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
albertknappmd Posted March 25, 2007 Author Share #7 Posted March 25, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) I will get the Photorescue v.3! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
albertknappmd Posted March 25, 2007 Author Share #8 Posted March 25, 2007 Just downloaded it... how easy... I just hope that I never have to use it !! :) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sirvine Posted March 25, 2007 Share #9 Posted March 25, 2007 I once accidentally formatted a card in my Canon on the airplane coming back from Australia. Photorescue pulled all but four exposures off that card. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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