Chuck's digital photo rule number 1: Never delete images in camera.
Due to quirks of the FAT16 and FAT32 file structures an image that's
deleted in-camera may or may not be recoverable. And there's no way for
you to know ahead of time whether it will be or not.
I should have known better since I understand these file system
structures very well. But I didn't pay attention to my own advice and,
during a bit of downtime, started editing in-camera. I later swapped
out that card for another and later picked it up again thinking it was
all done... and I (you guessed it) formatted it. PhotoRescue managed to
get about half of the 20-30 images back. There were only a couple among
the missing that were truly important and, since they were static images
of a temple I was able to return to the site with the hour and reshoot them.
Sometimes learns and then re-learns the hard way,
Chuck Norcutt
On 6/12/2011 7:23 PM, Andrew Fildes wrote:
> Ah yes - I see it now. I had to zoom the screen to get it.
> I don't own Focus Magic but I can do that easily enough with localised
> contrast/sharpen.
> Thought you might like to see the original and speculate on what I had to do
> to it.
> http://www.pbase.com/afildes/image/135518533
>
> It had a chequered history. Just for a start, I knew it was a good image but
> while sitting in a cafe later I had a rush of blood to the stupid gland and
> did something I never do - started erasing images. Got into a rhythm and
> accidentally killed this one. Said some VERY unfortunate things. I've never
> had to retrieve an image before but I downloaded PhotoRescue and it worked
> very well indeed, if very slowly considering it was just replacing a few tags.
>
> A new feature for cameras? How about an 'Undelete' command that reverses the
> last 2/3 actions? You wouldn't need it often so they could bury it in a menu
> somewhere.
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> On 12/06/2011, at 5:50 PM, Moose wrote:
>
>> I think it gets even better if the eye, eyebrow, mouth and the nose ever so
>> slightly, are given a mild dose of Focus
>> Magic. I almost always find I like an image like this best if the eye is in
>> focus. Pulling the DOF a little further back
>> does that.<http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/Others/Fildes/Pietro.htm>
>
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