How to recover inaccessible photos from Sigma SD 15

The Sigma SD 15 is the latest digital SLR model in Sigma's SD series. Powered by 14 megapixels Foveon X3 sensor, 3 inches LCD display, True II image processing engine, this outstanding camera enables you to record photos in both RAW and JPEG file formats. Among different variants of memory cards, it supports SD, SDHC and MultiMedia cards. These cards retain photos for a long period of time and until corruption issues plague them. Once corruption occurs it damages the file system, making photos saved on any of the above-mentioned cards inaccessible. To tackle such situations, you have to go for a dual-approach solution which involves formatting and photo recovery. First you have to format the memory card to make it reusable in your Sigma SD 15 camera, and then you have to restore lost photos from a backup.

Consider a scenario, wherein, you have gone to attend your sister's convocation ceremony. You click several photos of the important event of your sister's life to show it to your parents who could not made it to the event. You return home all excited and when you insert the SD card in your Sigma SD 15 camera, you receive the following error message:

"No Picture"

The error kills all your excitement by rendering photos of the convocation ceremony inaccessible. It was definitely a bad news for your parents who could not share the joy with their children.

Cause

You can experience the above strange behavior and error message in the following situations:

1.If you have inserted a blank or incorrect SD card
2.If your memory card malfunctions
3.Or if your card has become corrupt (Corruption can occur due to interruptions in read/write processes)

Resolution

In order to resolve the problem, you must consider the following troubleshooting steps:

1.Replace the memory card with a correct one
2.If you are sure about presence of photos on the memory card, then contact the card manufacturer
3.In case of corruption, reformat the SD card in your Sigma SD 15 camera, followed by photo recovery from a valid backup copy.

In absence of a clean and updated backup of photos, it is advisable to download an efficient digital photo recovery software.

One of the highly recommended product is Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery which has the ability of recovering lost or deleted photos along with other multimedia files from a range of digital cameras and memory cards. This photo recovery software has two versions for both Windows and Mac users.