A Relaxing Way to Recover Deleted PEF photo from Pentax Camera

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Pentax Digital cameras are used to format RAW image which is known as .PEF file format. PEF is also said as Pentax Electronic file. Pentax cameras are one of the finest digital cameras used to capture memories related to a person. Photos captured by these digital camera, gives an uncompressed images.

When you delete PEF photos from Pentax cameras, the photo itself isn't deleted, just the index entry that says where the data for those files is located. The space containing the deleted photos is also now marked as free space so it is available to the system for any new files to be written there instead. So it is very, very important to not take any more pictures to hard disk or memory card from which you want to get back deleted photos.

You can recover deleted PEF photos from my Pentax camera on your own with a good photo recovery software. Quick Internet searches will give you a tremendous number of programs that advertise lost photo recovery, and most of them cost between $25 - $40. And I'm using a program called Wondershare Photo Recovery that does the very same job but just cost me $29.95. Now I will tell you how to get back deleted photos from Pentax cameras by Photo Recovery.

 

Pentax Camera

The period around 1950 marked the return of the Japanese photographic industry to the vigorous level of the early 1940s, and its emergence as a major exporter. The newly reborn industry had sold many of its cameras to the occupation forces (with hugely more disposable income than the Japanese) and they were well received. The Korean War saw a huge influx of journalists and photographers to the Far East, where they were impressed by lenses from companies such as Nikon and Canon for their Leica rangefinder cameras, and also by bodies by these and other companies to supplement and replace the Leica and Contax cameras they were using. This was the background to the development of Asahi Optical's first camera.

Pentax was a premier maker of film cameras. In the digital age, their cameras aren't overwhelmingly popular -- you don't see them too often on display racks at big-box electronics stores -- but they are well-loved by a devoted group of loyalists.  Pentax makes all kinds of cameras with varying degrees of success, but their K-series dSLRs are excellent. In a fair world, they'd garner widespread recognition, but those who know what's up can reap the benefits.

PEF File

Uncompressed RAW photograph taken with a Pentax digital camera; stores image information exactly how it was captured by the camera's sensor, with no compression or color adjustment. Different Pentax camera models may store images using slightly different variations of the format; therefore certain software programs may read some, but not all PEF files.

Wondershare Photo Recovery can be not cheap because technicians may need to disassemble your hard drive to fix the problem. Hard drive data recovery is usually done in a 'clean room' as hard drives are sealed to avoid errors caused by dust or other particles. Also hard drives are finely tuned machinery and it takes specialist equipment to read the platters from a physically damaged drive. So you can use Wondershare Photo Recovery torecover deleted PEF photos from Pentax camera.

PEF Photo Lost Due to

Accidental deleting

» "Shift + Del" without backup

» "Delete All" when deleting not-so-good photos

» Delete pictures instead of saving by accidentally pressing wrong button

» Emptying Recycle Bin without backup


Formatting

» "Media/Drive is not formatted would you like to format now?"


Virus infection/attack

Unexpected power off

Other reasons

» Factory setting of device
» Losing photos during transferring photos from storage device to PC/laptop
» Pulling out card while the camera is on
» Turning off the camera during a write process

Why can you recover deleted PEF file?

When you delete PEF photos from your Pentax camera, the photo itself isn't deleted, just the index entry that says where the data for those files is located. The space containing the deleted photos is also now marked as free space so it is available to the system for any new files to be written there instead. So it is very, very important to not take any more photos to the camera memory card from which you want to get back deleted photos from Pentax camera.

You can recover deleted PEF photos from hard disk or memory card on your own with a good photo recovery software. Quick Internet searches will give you a tremendous number of programs that advertise lost photo recovery, and most of them cost between $25 - $40. And I'm using a program called Wondershare Photo Recovery that does the very same job but just cost me $29.95. Now I will tell you how to get back deleted photos from Hard Disk by Photo Recovery:

Recover photo and media files in the below formats

Photo Recovery - Mac Photos BMP, PNG, TIF, TIFF, JPEG, JPG, GIF, PSD
RAW Photo Recovery - Mac PEF Photos Canon CR2,CRW
Nikon PEF
Sony ARW, SR2
Olympus ORF
Pentax MRF
Hasselblad 3FR
Pentax X3F
pentax PEF
DNG DNG
fuji RAF
Panasonic RAW
Kodak KDC, K25, DCR
Leica RAW
 Video Recovery - Mac Videos AVI, MP4, MOV, MPEG, MPG, M4V, 3G2, 3GP, RM
Music Recovery - Mac Music MP3, MP4, WAV, MIDI, M4B, M4A, AIFF, AIF, AIFC, RA, AMR

Important Note

If you have deleted/lost files from your flash card and want to recover most of those, PLEASE STOP TAKING ANY MORE PEF PHOTO FROM PENTAX CAMERA. That’s because the more you write new data on your memory card, the chances of recovering old and deleted data becomes less .

Step1: Download & Install the photo recovery program.

Wondershare Photo Recovery is reliable photo recovery software to easily perform photo recovery and Flashmemory card recovery with nice quality. It is also non-destructive media recovery software which helps you retrieve video, restore audio, and recover music from all storage devices. No matter your photos or multimedia files have been deleted accidently, memory cards have been formatted. Key High Quality and Security - High fidelity and no compression on your photos. No any further damage or overwriting to your data. Deep Scan- Recover photos that cannot be recovered even found by other recovery tools to get overall quality and deep recovery with intelligence.

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After the installation, lauch this photo recovery tool. The main panel shows like this:

Step2: Scanning recoverable photos

The Photo Recovery start to scan your disk including your PC hard disk and your Flashmemory card. This step may take some time depending on the size of disk space. You don't need to wait until scanning is finished and you can click "Next" to finish scanning.

Step 3: Preview recoverable photos and select photos.

Here you can preview the available and recoverable photos you want to recover like below.

Step 4: Select path or enter a directory for recovered photos.

After you select path or enter a directory for recovered photos, you can click "Next" button to recover the photos from Hard Disk.

Check your computer system at first

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RAM 128 MB or more of RAM
Disk Space 10 MB of free space

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