Thanks. I didn't know that but it wouldn't do me any good since I shoot
only raw. Perhaps Canon raw files have a suitable end-of-file marker as
well but the recovery software I tried (two varieties, RescuePro being
one of them) did recognize the start of images but failed if images were
not sequentially located.
Chuck Norcutt
Ian Nichols wrote:
> 2009/6/14 Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>> When recovering images after the directory has
>> been destroyed there is no way to recognize the end of an image other
>> than the header at the start of another image.
>
> I believe you're mistaken there, Chuck. The info I've seen says that
> there's an End of Image marker in there somewhere, so unless that's
> been overwritten or corrupted, the end can be detected.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG
>
> http://www.obrador.com/essentialjpeg/headerinfo.htm
>
> for 2 examples.
>
>
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