Does anyone know how to recover deleted photos from Pentax digital camera

When you delete photos (or any files) from Pentax digital camera the photos itself isn’t deleted, just the file system pointers that says where the data for those photos is located. The area where the deleted photo data was stored is also now marked as free space so it is available to the system for any new files to be written there instead. If and when that happens, then it is too late to recover your deleted photos so it is very, very important that new photos aren’t saved to the memory card in the meantime. One of the easiest ways to see if your deleted photo from Pentax digital camera can be recovered is to try some photo recovery software.

A digital photo is a computer file created by either a digital camera or scanner that is made up of sequence of pixels. When a digital camera takes a photograph, it converts raw image data from an optical sensor, into a standardized digital file format for storage on a memory card.

The most common digital image formats are JPEG, TIFF and RAW. Most photographers choose to shoot in JPEG as this file format offers a very good balance between file size and image quality with a variety of compression options. RAW (the initial file format) photos offer the highest possible image quality but have greater requirements in file size, although they are popular can be considered a sort of digital negative.

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

The reason is when you delete photos from Pentax digital camera it does not actually delete the photos, it just deletes the file information on the file allocation table and leaves the photos data intact. With this information the digital camera thinks the space occupied by the old photos are available for use. When you start taking new photos you start to overwrite the areas vacated by the old photos and then the old photos are really "deleted" by the process of having new information overwritten in that area of the SD card. Once new data is written over old data, then the old data is gone for good. Also, what most people don't realize is that flash based memory cards like SD and USB drives have a limited life cycle - they do not last forever. Every time data is written and deleted or formatted, it takes a toll on the flash device (granted the life cycle is pretty long).

You can recover deleted photos from Pentax digital camera 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 recover deleted photos by Photo Recovery.

Here are a few precautions you need to follow which are essential if you want to recover deleted photos from Pentax digital camera.

1. Remove the memory card from your camera and put it in a safe place so that you won’t accidentally overwrite your deleted photos.

2. Don't save any pictures to this memory card.

If you do save new images to the memory card, then chances are the deleted files will be overwritten by the new images rendering deleted photos unrecoverable.

Wondershare Photo Recovery is reliable photo recovery software to easily perform photo recovery and memory 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.

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

The Photo Recovery start to scan your disk including your PC hard disk and your Pentax memory 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.

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

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