Six Tips to Buy Best digital Camera

Memories are precious for everyone. To capture most valuable memories every one wish to opt best digital technology. You always expect your memories should be crystal clear. With the advancement in technology to fulfill your wishes digital camera is there. But here is the question, which one is best for you out of thousands of available options.

The following tips will guide you to buy the best digital camera.

1. First decide your need about the digital camera. Many people buy digital camera after seeing big price tags but later they realize that their needs were very less they didn't need these big shot camera. So before buying, sort out your needs for digital camera.
2. Decide the camera according to resolution: Many people don't know about the purpose of camera resolution. Camera resolution is to shoot large size photos and print them in king size. Photos taken in high resolution are big in size. For normal user 5-10 mega pixel cameras is more than enough to take good quality photos and print them in same quality. If you are profession photographer you can go for high end camera as you need to edit the pictures manually on computer for visual effects.
3. Consider the zoom factor of camera: Zooming is an important factor. When you purchase a digital camera give more value to it than mega pixels. Digital cameras are available with 2 type of zoom a) digital zoom b) Optical zoom. Digital zoom camera are good but it makes your pictures little spread unlike the optical zoom camera so it is always better to purchase optical zoom camera. Digital cameras are available with 3x zoom to 12x zoom. Choose the camera according to your zoom requirement.
4. Choice between Point Shoot and DSLR: If you are new in photography and want easy to use camera always go with point shoot camera. They are easy to use and easy to carry. DSLR are big in size and heavy as well, recommended for professional photographers.
5. Before purchasing any digital camera just read the reviews on-line or in magazines. It will assist you to know what other users say about it. You can make your choice according to that.
6. Negotiate the price. After selecting a good camera of your choice explore the price of it on different shops as well as on-line. As most of the time you will find different price of same digital camera on different shops or shopping site.

Keep Your Digital Camera Battery Healthy

Digital camera performance gets down if your camera battery is not healthy. If battery are not in good condition you can face the problems like slow snapshots, problems in reading wring the photos on memory card, etc. Even some time memory card can be corrupted because of low battery.

It is quite irritating when you are on trip and find the digital camera fully charged, batteries are dead even you have not used them for a week. So it is very important for you to keep your camera battery healthy.

Here are the few tips to save your digital camera battery life.

1. Always turn off digital camera when it is not in use.
2. All Digital cameras have regular view finder and LCD viewfinder. Digital LCD viewfinder has benefits over the regular viewfinder. Use LCD viewfinder when ever is needed only and turn it off after the use and use regular view finder rest of the time.
3. Don't stop and look the preview after taking every picture. For some times it is granted to see the preview but not every time as it eats lots of battery.
4. Whenever you use new battery pack it is must to make them ready for their optimum performance. It is always written on User manual that for first time use of new batteries first charge them full and discharge them full. Repeat this for five times. This procedure increases the life of batteries.
5. Fully charged batteries never remain charged even they are not in use. If you are not using your batteries, charge them in a week time. This will increase the life of your batteries. If you are not using your camera for long, never keep your batteries inside the camera as it can harm your camera.

How to Retrieve Lost Data from Pen Drive

Have you ever lost your precious data from pen drive? If your answer is yes and you don't have backup of your data, it is horrible situation for you. But doesn’t worry you can easily recover you lost data with advance card recovery software.

Technology has become advance, only because of it recovery of digital data is possible now days, but still lots of people are not aware with it and loose the data for ever.

With the card recovery software you can recover data such as photos, audios, videos not only from pen drive/flash drive but also from any other digital store media without having any technical skill.

Big question is how to choose best card recovery software?

Thousand of card recovery software is available on Internet as well as in market. They promise to recover pictures from CD, DCD, flash drive, hard drive, etc. some of them are good but many of them are fake as well.

Here are the few tips to choose best card recovery tool

1. Tool should be read only.
2. It should not change the original data. It has seen with many card recovery tools that during the recovery process data get corrupt, and result end up with permanent loss of valuable data.
3. The software GUI should be user-friendly.
4. The trial version of the software should be available, and with the trial version at least you must be able to see the preview of recoverable files.
5. Software should work well with all digital storage media.

Even you purchase right software but because of your mistakes some chances are there that you will not be able to recover your data. So keep in mind the below points to increase the possibility of successful data recovery:

1. Do not use the pen drive/ flash drive to store any new data
2. Do not modify any existing data on flash drive

If you are new to data loss situation then in this case Stellar Card recovery software is the best tool for you to get your data back.

It is very user-friendly and you can recover your data from Pen drive/ Flash drive in 3 simple easy steps: Scan, Preview and Recover.

How to retrieve pictures from Sony Nex 5R Camera

In August, 2012 Sony has announced the successor of its very famous and popular NEX 5N digital camera. After using the Nex 5R I can say that it is for the average photographers. The most interesting change done from Nex 5N is Hybrid AF. The new fast Hybrid AF technology focuses on the distant object very quickly and then utilizes contrast detection AF to confirm quality. In actual the best way to describe Nex 5R camera that gives both Af methods. Mostly NEX system is that accessing some camera that has too many manual buttons for pressing. Nex 5R solve this issue with full functional and programmable command buttons.

Nex 5R is the Sony’s first Wi Fi mirror less camera. Along with it Sony has introduced the concept of installed application which will push Sony to its new heights. Users can download and install various app onto the 5R.

Pricing and Availability

The NEX 5R will be available in mid October and colour will be black, silver or white. It will cost $650 or $750 with the 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 kit lens.

It can be better described when Sony will launch it in the market. Still we are looking forward an excellent camera with stunning image quality. But we have to be aware for some issues which we can face with Sony Nex 5R. General difficulties which we can encounter with the use of NEX 5R in future:

• Error message on Nex 5R screen
• Accidentally pressing the delete button in Nex 5R
• memory card blocked
• Memory card can be corrupt if we use it in virus infected PC.
• Memory card slot in camera is damaged.

How To recover Photos:

• Attach your Nex 5R with your PC or Laptop
• First download and install the photo recovery software on our computer or laptop. After installation, just open the software. Click Start scan button. After that select Nex 5R removable media.
• Then select file types. Highlight those photo formats you want to retrieve from Nex 5R.
• Now scanning procedure will be executed to look for lost photos in Nex 5R camera.
• After that you Save the all your recovered photos to desired location.

How to Do Photo Recovery from Olympus Stylus Tough 8010

Olympus is know for making high end stylish digital cameras and best quality lenses. In 2012 Olympus came up with new concept, Olympus Stylus Tough 8010. It is waterproof, shockproof and freezeproof, so you can use it on all of your extreme adventures. Olympus Stylus Tough 8010 camera has a 14MP resolution to take sharp high resolution pictures and to record quality HD movies. It has a 5x wide-angle optical zoom. It comes up with 2.7-inch LCD screen to do the configuration easily. This camera can survive if it falls from up to 6.6 feet. It is waterproof up to the depth of 33 feets. Because of it's incredible features Olympus has given it name the “lifeproof”. you can use it in rain, snow or under the river. This camera is as rugged as you are, so bring on the raging rivers, dusty deserts and rocky ridges— Olympus Stylus Tough 8010 is ready for whatever action awaits.

Olympus Stylus Tough 8010 comes up with 2 GB internal memory and compatible with both the popular card: SD and SDHC memory card (2GB to 32GB).

Maximum Recording Capacity

Still images(Full resolution, FINE compression)
Internal memory: 237 images
8 GB SD/SDHC card: 1,146 images
4 GB SD/SDHC card: 571 images
2 GB SD card: 279 images
1 GB SD card: 140 images

Movies(720p / FINE compression)
Internal memory: 0:23:13
8 GB SD/SDHC card: 1:57:29
4 GB SD/SDHC card: 0:58:43
2 GB SD/SDHC card: 0:29:20

Camera users generally don't depend only upon the internal memory of camera, external media such as SD and SDHC card have become the favorite choice of them. Some times camera users come into the problem when their memory card becomes corrupt. memory card corruption means device will not read the data on it because of some logical error. Because of this problem camera may respond strangely and flashes some error messages on camera LCD.

Take a scenario: You have called your friends, family members and relatives to be a part of your Birthday celebration. You are very excited and continuously clicking photos. Meanwhile, when you try to take a look at some of the photos, you receive the following error: “Card error"
This error is coming because your memory card has become corrupt.

Solution:
You can take out your memory card, clean it and again try it. If you still face the same problem, you are in trouble. Now the only solution to get your data back is to take the help of third party memory card recovery software.
One such software is stellar phoenix card recovery software, with the help of it you can recover all type of video, audio, photo files. Even you can recover camera format files like in your case it is ORF as you have Olympus camera.

It is very user friendly, follow these steps to know how it works:

1. Take out your card from your camera.
2. connect your memory card to your computer through card reader.
3. Download Stellar card recovery software from http://www.stellarphotorecoverysoftware.com /
4. Scan your card with recovery tools. Once scanning will be completed you can see preview of all scanned photos and multimedia files.
5. Now you can select files and press recovery button for recovery.

How to Retrieve Pictures from Canon Powershot G1 X

Last year people were waiting so patiently for the emergence of mirror less interchangeable lens camera, they had waited so long for canon and Nikon to be readily available. Canon’s approach is like to be of more interest. The canon’s Powershot G1 X is the king of canon’s point and shoots cameras. It’s a large sensor camera with a flexible 4x zoom lens, 28-112mm equivalent and brilliant manual control.G1 X offers almost all of the extensive external controls provided by G12- a camera which is a product of today’s generation. It is, in short a serious camera for serious photographers which conclude that great photography is nothing to do with whether or not you own a DLSR camera. It can be yours for around £700.

Canon G1 X specification Highlights

• 3.0” LCD display
• 14MP 1.5” CMOS sensor(18.7x14mm)
• 28-112mm F2.8-5.8 Lens
• Optical view finder
• ISO 100-12,800
• Extensive Manual control
• 14-bit raw shooting
• 4.5fps continuous shooting

Similar to other models Powershot G1 X also use SD card for the storage of pictures. You can use any brands memory card in your camera but you have to be ready to face consequences if you are using local memory card just to save your money. There is possibility that your memory card gets corrupted or inaccessible, resultant that you can’t access your pictures any more. 

 

There is no need to worry; you can still recover your pictures back. Third party recovery software will amazingly recover all your pictures from inaccessible memory card. I had personally used stellar phoenix photo recovery and recovered all my pictures which are inaccessible. Software also has its free demo version on its official website from where you can download the software and start using it, demo version has all its features present in full version, and free demo version allows you to know about the features and working of the software. 

For free download go to: www.stellarphotorecoverysoftware.com

How can I get my lost pictures from Nikon D40X

The Nikon D40X is the lightest, smallest and cheapest APS-C DLSR launched by any manufacturer. This is the first camera having powerful inbuilt computer inside it and a big LCD display on the back. The Nikon D40X has compact light body and easy to use control layout.

Nikon Key Features:

• 10 mega pixel DX format CCD
• Large 2.5” LCD display
• 3.0 fps continuous shooting
• Nikon image processing engine
• Bigger view finder x0.8 magnification(95% coverage)
• ISO sensitivity range 100-1600 plus HI 1
• Support for SDHC( cards over 2 GB of capacity)
• USB 2.0 with PTP and Mass Storage device support
• Very compact, light body (smaller, lighter than D50)
• Improved menu user interface (as D80 / D200)
• New EN-EL9 Lithium-Ion battery (7.2V, 1000 mAh)
• New 'Version II' AF-S DX 18-55 mm kit lens

If we compare it with Nikon D40 we can see that Nikon had launched D40X with some add-ons over D40 these are:

• Faster continuous shooting (3 fps vs. 2.5 fps)*
• Lower base sensitivity (ISO 100 vs ISO 200)
• 10 megapixel sensor
• Auto ISO option includes ISO 200

D40X also has a unique feature of screen sleep in which screen light turns off, if it is in no use which also increase it power backup. It also has capacity to store large quantity of pictures in it. But sometimes you may face some problem when your memory card suddenly stops showing your photos stored in it. This problem is very common but never takes it lightly or perhaps you may lose all your stored photos in your D40X.

Resolution:

Never use your D40X when you face above mentioned problem. Do not click more pictures by D40x. Remove your SD card from D40x and connect it with your PC by using card reader. It is possible that you might be able to see your photos now is yes then copy them and save backup in your PC for further use.

If you are still not seeing your photos then go to www.stellarphotorecoverysoftware.com and download the stellar phoenix photo recovery software in your PC and star scanning D40x sd card. Now you will surely recover all your lost photos from sd card of D40x camera.

Retrieve your lost photos from sony cyber-shot dsc-hx200v

Sony cyber shot dsc hx200v is a high quality, super zoom camera that will take your photography passion to heights.  Whether you are talking about its built-in GPS, 360 degree panorama maker, 10 fps burst shooting.  Cyber shot dsc-hx200v has a healthy 105 MB in built memory which can hold up to seventeen photos at a time with high image quality settings. It will cost you $449.99.

Keyspecs of Cyber shot DSC-hx200v

·         18 mega pixel, 3-inch backside illuminated(BSI)

·         Dimensions- 4.9x3.5x3.8

·         Image stabilization size- optical and digital

·         File format- JPEG/AVCHD (.MTS); MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 (.MP4)

·         Storage media- SD/SDHC/SDXC; Memory Stick Pro Duo

·         30x, f2.8-5.6, 27-810mm Lens

·         Battery type, CIPA rated life Li-ion rechargeable, 450 shots

The LCD of cyber shot DSC-hx200v is quite large and bright, which makes it easy to see in bright conditions, but you may still struggle in direct sun for that you can always use the electronic view finder, although it is bit small in size. With all its capabilities and features the HX200v is tricky in use, particularly if you are not in the habit of using advanced compact cameras. However the menus given are easy to operate and if you have any doubt in operating the camera there is a complete manual stored in the camera. It is actually good because some of the shooting modes have a lot of settings and it’s hard to remember each one of them.

One of my friends had bought cyber shot DSC-HX200v and he told me that the camera is absolutely fine in working except its tricky menu buttons where he had faced some problem, another problem he told me that he had deleted some of his photos from cyber shot dsc hx-200v by pressing the delete button by mistake.

After listening about his problems I searched on internet and talked to some of my friends which are in technical fields and someone advised me to use stellar phoenix photo recovery software. So after collecting few more information about the stellar photo recovery software I advised my friend to use this software and he successfully recovered all his deleted photos from cyber shot DSC-HX200v.

How to recover pictures from memory card error

From childhood till now photos are the only partner which reminds us about our beautiful past. All of us have sweet memories attached with someone special it can be our grandparents, friends, neighbors and when they are not with us photos is only the way through which we could feel the time spent with them.

We use memory cards to store our pictures in camera, Mobile, iPod and even we use memory card for transferring pictures in Laptops, computer. However the corruption of these memory cards can make the photos inaccessible for us. When the memory card gets corrupted it displays an error message.

“Card locked”    and “memory card error”The corruption in the memory card can be due to several reasons these can be:

      ·  Abnormal insertion/removal of memory card

      ·   Improper read/write operation

      ·   Virus attack on memory card

      ·  Abrupt switching off of camera

      ·  Scratch on the metallic part of the memory card

Resolution:

As the corruption in the memory card is normal it is recommended to take the back up every time when you add something new in your memory card. The corruption problem of the memory card can be sort by formatting the memory card. This would bring back the memory card in working condition but the data saved in memory card will be lost. The lost data can be recovered by using an updated backup. If you do not have any updated backup then you need third party recovery software.

Stellar phoenix software can recover your photos from corrupted memory card no need to format your card if you are not having any backup of your data. The stellar phoenix photo recovery software can recover your inaccessible pictures from memory card which is corrupted. This software not only recovers your lost pictures but at the same time it can recover your videos, audio from corrupted memory card.

How to recover photos from Samsung GX-20

The GX-20 is a 14.6 megapixel camera launched by Samsung. GX- 20 leads the DLSR race when it was announced back in December. Mostly DLSR market largely settled on 12 mega pixel as a standard resolution. GX- 20 is one of the finest DLSR we have seen because it has three or five shot bracketing, giving you eight stops in a single burst.

In GX- 20 there is a sensitivity priority mode, in which ISO can be set according to us and GX- 20 will automatically adjust its shutter speed and aperture to get the balanced photos. Samsung stores files in JPEG format and in RAW format that is DNG. All the pictures clicked from GX- 20 is either stored in its internal memory or on SD/SDHC memory card used in camera.

But for many reasons digital memory card can get corrupt or user may delete files accidentally from memory card. The owner of Samsung DX- 20 can face data loss problem due to the corruption of memory card. Below are the reasons for memory card corruption:

1.  Accidentally deleting the file from memory card or GX- 20 camera itself.

2. Pulling the memory card without the write operation to complete.

3. Using GX- 20 while the battery is very low.

4. Clicking the photos when the memory card is nearly full.

5. Camera or memory card attached with PC with is virus infected

6.Pulling out the memory card from card reader while its content is still open in PC or laptop.

These are the reasons of memory card corruption. One of the solutions is to format the memory card and restore the memory card with the backup files you have. If in case you don’t have any backup of your memory card files than you can use memory card recovery software for recovering data from your memory card.

After extensive research on the working of different recovery software’s I found stellar memory card recovery software is the best. It can recover various types of image formats, audio, video from any camera or memory card used in it. This software is available for windows (Windows 7 / Vista/ XP / 2003 /2000/Windows NT) and Mac OS X (Snow Leopard, Leopard, Tiger, and Panther).

Restore your deleted photos from Sony DLSR-A450

Sony DLSR-A450 feels very solid and well built, with an excellent design. The control buttons are within easy reach which gives quick access to commonly used features. When buying a DLSR you have lots of choices. Sony alone has eight DLSR models to choose from and both Nikon and canon has a large list of DLSR in their basket.

As the price increases, features add on and reduces accordingly. Suppose if we talk about Sony DLSR- A450 then you will not get some of the features of A500 and A550. Some of the features which lack are the quick AF live view mode that allows you to frame your photos using auto focus just likes with a compact camera.

Inspite of this the features which makes it a quality product are its high megapixels and at 7 frames per second, can captures images quicker than an A500. It can keep continue shooting upto 1,050 shots which is far more than A550 can manage. It is very fast and responsive so that you will never miss any of the action which you want to capture in your camera.

Battery life and image quality is excellent, as compare with the beginners model DLSR A450 is superb. Now after knowing the technical features of DLSR A450, we will go to the second part where we will know how to recover deleted photos from Sony DLSR A450?

The recovery process is absolutely simple and effective. If you had lost your photos from DLSR A450 due to any reasons simply use Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery software and it will recover your lost photos within few minutes.

Below you can find the steps to use stellar phoenix software:

1. Attach your DLSR A450 camera with your PC or Laptop.
2. Now download the free software of stellar from www.stellarphotorecoverysoftware.com
3.  After downloading the software in your PC or Laptop, double click on the ion and open it.
4.  Now click on start scan and select the media which will be the icon of your camera removable drive.
5.  Wait for few minutes, and then you will see the preview of all your lost images from your camera.
6.  Now insert the registration key in click on the recover button to recover your lost photos and save them in any drive of your PC.

You must be thinking that recovery process is much simple which are mentioned in above steps. So i would like to tell you that the above recovery process is very much genuine and effective and you will surely recover your lost photos from DLSR A450 camera.

How to retrieve and regain deleted pictures from mobile phones

Mobile market is growing fast. Everyone is using mobile phones these days for taking pictures or photo. Latest Mobile phones are offering higher Mps camera leaving reasons for the users to use their phone for taking pictures. Android is doing its best to provide better customer service to its users. With time the mobile phones are getting more compact and provide larger storage capacity to store more photos and videos. According to a recent study more than 30% of all the mobile users are smart phones users.

With advent of technology, the concern of data loss has also increased. The article below describes that how photos and videos can be recovered from the memory card of mobile phone.

For example suppose we are trying to access data from memory card, and it shows error message like “Drive not formatted would you like to format it know”. And on formatting all the data will be deleted.

Whenever required, people mostly use their mobile phones to record the wonderful moments of their life. All wonderful moment are saved in the form of image or video in the memory card of mobile phones. But data of mobile phone is not very safe as pictures or videos can get accidentally deleted or formatted. Also it may be possible that memory card is formatted or damaged. The mentioned situation can cause lost pictures or photos, but it can be possible that these pictures are very precious for someone.

Most Popular Mobiles from where data deletion can occur:

·         Samsung mobile (Galaxy Note/Golden/Alpha/S5/Omnia/i9008/i5700/G70 or SGH series etc).

·         HTC phones (HTC Desire/one/Butterfly/ My Touch/ Mobile/ etc).

·         Nokia phones (lumia 930/1520/1020/x7/ N97, E7-00 etc).

·         BlackBerry phones (Passport, Bold/Curve, Storm, Tour, Pearl etc).

·         Motorola phones (Moto G/X/E etc).

·         Sony Xperia phones (Xperia c3/E3/Z/M/ etc).

·         LG phones (Stylus/beat/bello/Optimus/Voyager/Cookie/ Accolade etc).

Causes of Mobile Phone Data Deletion

1.     Logical Failure: When data loss happens due to accidental deletion, memory card error, card corruption, formatting, virus infection or malware, electrical failure etc.

2.     Physical failure: When data loss happens due to dropping, water damage, natural disaster and other destruction factor.

In case of Physical failure, one has to contact specialized engineering services who are trained in Physical Data recovery services.

Reasons for Logical failure in Mobile phones

1.     Electricity failure or interrupted power supply.

2.     Mishandling and improper handling of diagnostics utility

3.     Improper insertion, ejection or over usage of Memory card( already full)

4.     Human mistakes (accidental deletion, dropping)

5.     Memory card Corruption

6.     Virus Infection or malware

For above mentioned situations, we use photo recovery software. To use the software, we can search on internet and download. But, most of them are technical and are not very simple to understand. In the below article, you will find an efficient tool to recover photos /pictures and audio/video files from mobile phone.

This powerful picture regaining software can regain not only pictures of mobile phone but also can regain pictures or files from most of the devices: 

1.             Hard drives and all type of external storage devices like pen drive, USB Drive.

2.             Digital Camera: Nikon, Canon, Kodak, Sony etc.

3.             Memory cards like SD card, MicroSD card, CF Card, MMC, XD etc.

Pre Preparation: detach memory card from the mobile phones, connect the card reader to the computer USB port, insert your memory card of mobile phones, it will show as portable device in the PC or laptop.

Recovery Steps

Step1- Free Download Mobile Phone picture recovery setup on below webpage: 

http://www.retrievephotos.com/article/recover-lost-or-deleted-pictures-from-various-mobile-phones.php

then install it and start up.
Step2- Click on start scan button to recover deleted picture or images or videos 

Step 3- Select your portable device, Select file type

Step 4- Now click scan after that you can see all the deleted pictures or photos in preview section.

Step 5- You can see here all your deleted pictures and photos then select them and click on recover button.

Step 6- Select place where you want to store these retrieved pictures or photos.

Some Useful Tips:

1.             Always save you regained images or videos into a different folder.

2.             Always make a habit to back up your data in preferably other storage devices. You can back up data on Google drive, iCloud, etc.

3.             After deletion or corruption of memory card, avoid saving picture on that memory card because over written data have less chance to regain.

4.             Install a good antivirus software and update frequently.

5.             Follow the proper ways to insert and eject the memory card. Improper shutdown or mishandling of diagnostics utility can cause memory card corruption or inaccessible data.

In addition, this software can not only recover digital pictures or images but also supports video recovery and audio file recovery.