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Please help !!! Quite emergency...

Oct 23, 2005 7:52AM PDT

Hello everybody,
I am very, very tensed and upset now. Last week I had a wonderful tour of my life in Paris where I shooted around 150 beautiful remembering pictures from my new Sony Dsc-V1. When I was back, I checked all those photos in my computer and found some with low brightness and contrast which I tried to fix in Irfanview. I've never worked with this software before.
I downloaded the photos to my computer and started editing some photos. Then I reloaded those edited photos back to my camera and found error that said "File Error" on my camera. I tried each and every variations and combinations to get back but couldnt. Then again I tried to download that specific "File error" photo back to computer and saw that it works well and I can see the photo without any problem. My biggest mistake was that i just didnt take a backup of original photos. Now I have around 116, 5.0 megapixels photos in my 256 mb memory card. Whenever I browse those photos on my camera, I can see the photos that were not edited and the photos that were edited I see as a "File Error".
I want to upload those edited photos to camera's memory card coz i need to develop in the local shop on hard paper. Kindly help me to get those edited photos from irfanview to my camera.
Any suggestions or advices are warmly welcomed.
Thanking you in advance
Avishai.

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Paris trip photos
Oct 23, 2005 1:39PM PDT

Go to ImageRecall.com and download their trial software.
You can get up to ten images back. If that works purchase the software.
One word of advise, do not use your camera with that memory card any more. Use another card for new photos.
Use the original card with ImageRecall.
Image recall works!
Do you have a card reader? Image Recall only works with a card reader and not thru your camera.
I had over 350 images restored with Image Recall from my photo trip to Turkey this past May.

-Kevin

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Imagerecall didn't worked
Oct 24, 2005 12:02AM PDT

First of all thanks for replying. I think that this file is totally corrupted and still ImageRecall didn't work. Any other ideas please?

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A solution ?
Oct 24, 2005 12:52AM PDT

If you are into digital cameras, then you have to invest in a CD writer. You have to. You need to ''archive'' the photos on CDs. You cannot keep them in the camera - the recording medium gets full.

So, upload the photos from the camera to your computer, save them in organised folders and then backup to CDs - these are your treasures. You can make more than one copy and you can use these CDs for your printing to hard copies.

For those few edited photos which you cannot get back into the camera, there is no problem. Just save them and burn them to Cds. The reason you cannot get them back into the camera is because the format has been changed , e.g. fromthe original ''Sony'' format to ''infranview'' format, which your Sony camera no longer reconizes. The storage card in you Sony camera is somehow ''formated'' specificly for Sony camera programs.

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Thanks very much
Oct 26, 2005 7:48AM PDT

Atlast I was able to recover all those photos. Yes you are right, photos were just backed up in irfanview format. But still I took that card to local photo shop and they managed to develop me all those beautiful pics. By the way, next week I'll be in turkey... CD writer is really better idea. Thanks again and God bless you all for help...Regards...

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There is no "IrfanView" format
Oct 27, 2005 11:09AM PDT

There is no such thing as "IrfanView format"
IrfanView only saves to the format that you select, such as JPG, or GIF, or BMP, or any of the more than dozen other formats.

If your problem was that you expected to open those saved and/or converted images back in your camera, well, that depends upon if your camera can open non-proprietary image formats. It doesn't sound like your camera can.