Best guide for Sony Alpha Camera Deleted Photos Recovery

Sony Just released the new powerful cameras and lens last day. That't a good news for photography enthusiasts. Thanks to the high quarlity and powerful performance, Sony Alpha series camera has found favor in photography circle. Many photographer prefer to use this kind of camera to take photos.



However, for many reason, we are easy to loss photos from Sony Alpha camera. Such as accidentally deletion, SDXC card formratting or error, etc. In those case, what will you do? Accept the unfortunate things sadly? Or search for photos recovery solution at once? Be paitient! I have some guides which I collect from the web and conclution from my experience for Sony camera photos recovery.

Before Sony Alpha Camera Photos Recovery

Since you deside to recover deleted, formatted, lost photos from Sony Alpha Photos Recovery, you need to stop using the camera or the memory card. No taking photos again, and no data transferring to memory card. If your lost photos were saved in the memory card(genernally Sony Alpha series camera use SDXC card), you had better unplug the card from camera.


Why we need to do this? Take photo deletion as an example, you can't see the deleted photos in camera or memory card, but it doesn't mean those photos have been wiped from storage space. In file system, deleted, formatted file just will be overwritten. Deletion or formatting happen just a signal for the file system, which tell it mark those files "deleted" or "formatted", and make them invisible, at the same time, when new data save in, it will tell that the space where the original files located are availible. Then the new data will overwrite the old.


Therefore, if we keep using camera or memory card, those photos we want to recover will be wiped forever.

Needed preparation when we recover photos from Sony Alpha camera

There are some headwork we need to do. Indeed, we can't recover deleted photos from Sony Alpha camera without any tools. Photo recovery tool we need, and something details have to remember as well:


1. charge full for your camera, when you need get back many photos, the scanning time will be long, you have to sure that the device won't shut down while photo recovering.


2.Use the standard USB cable of camera. If you directly connect the camera to computer, confirm the USB cable is good.


3.You can directly connect the memory card to computer when recovery tool can't recognize your camera.



If you get ready, we begin to get back deleted photos from camera.


Card Data Recovery -if you delete., format photos from Sony Alpha camera, then you probably need this software. The function of preview in the tool makes you to view the thumbnails before you retrieve. It supports almost all series of Sony camera and othter devices of brands. You can learn more from here: http://www.card-data-recovery.com/


Only 3 step, you can retrieve lost photos from Sony camera.


Step 1：Click "Start" on the home interface. Select digital camera card drive. And select select the file types in Standard Mode. Or switch to Advanced Mode, select file formats. Click “scan”. It will take you a few minutes to scan your memory card;


Step 2:You can see all deleted images listed on the task window, check the deleted photos you want to recover. This program allows you to preview deleted pictures before recovery. Click "Recover".


Step 3:Select a path folder for the recovered pictures and store recovered photos.