Photo Recovery: Two Minute Tips with David Bergman

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Images corrupted or gone altogether? Don't panic. David Bergman gives some tips on getting your precious photos back.

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I’m photographer David Bergman and this is Two Minutes Tips for AdoramaTV.
It’s every photographer’s worst nightmare,
you just had the best shoot of your life
and made amazing images but now you get
a dreaded error message and it looks
like all your pictures are gone.
Ok take a deep breath, calm down. First
thing let's talk about ways to prevent
this from happening in the first place.
Whenever i buy a new card for my camera
the first thing I do is mount it on my
computer with an external card reader
and do a low level format. On a Mac you
want to use Disk Utility and the key is
to use the MS-DOS format option and the
zero out one past security erase. What
this does is write zero’s to every single bit on the card and potentially maps out any
bad sectors. I'm not a PC guy but I think
you can do a right click on the card and
do a low level format in there. We should
do this reformat in our computer every few
months to keep the cards nice and
healthy. Of course it wipes out all your
data so make sure you backup everything
first. So now insert your card into your
camera and use the cameras format
function. This creates the correct folder
structure for the camera so you're ready
to shoot. Now that we are taking pictures
let's keep a few things in mind to
minimize the risk of data corruption. The
main thing is you never ever, ever, ever
want to interrupt the writing of data
from the camera to the card. So when that red light is blinking do not remove the
card from the camera. Ideally you want to
power off before you even open that door.
The other thing is to watch your battery
because you don't want it to die while
you're taking pictures
otherwise you have the same problem. If
you do all of that and your card is
still corrupted, do not panic!
The odd’s are your images are still there but what happens is that little table of contents
of your camera writes to the card is
just corrupted and your computer is
having a hard time finding the pictures.
There are a lot of good data recovery
programs out there and oftentimes the
card manufacturers include versions of
their software for free if you buy their
pro cards. What the software does is
actually go through your card bit by bit
and try to recover any pieces of images
that it can find. In my experience you usually
can get back almost all of your files.
Try different programs in case one
doesn't work and you might be able to
get all of your images back. So remember
format all of your new cards both in the
computer and the camera, never interrupt
the camera when it's writing data to the
card and use recovery software to try to
recover files whenever you have
corruption. Thanks for joining me today
on AdoramaTV. Don't forget to subscribe
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the Adorama Learning Center for lots of
other great tips and tricks.