Thumbnail fine - Picture not.

SDTimeout

Hi guys, could very well be in the wrong place .If so troll away!

My mother wiped our memory card the night of my debs. She was trying to delete a picture my friend took and managed to wipe the whole camera. Mothers should not be allowed near camera i know.

Brought it to the chemist and got them on a disk. Some recovered, some lost, yet the main one ( me and my date ) which is needed to eternally remind my mother and her mother that their children went to a debs. IS there, in the thumbnail. However when i click into it a grey line runs across the bottom cutting the bottom half of the picture off.

Thumbnail is fine, consider bringing it to a better shop ? or hope there is one of the two of us on my uncles camera. Just his is a film one. Nice camera however in this day and age i don't see why he still insists on film...

any help appreciated!

DaireQuinlan

SDTimeout wrote: »

... Nice camera however in this day and age i don't see why he still insists on film...

There's little chance of all the shots being deleted off a film camera for a start

SDTimeout

DaireQuinlan wrote: »

There's little chance of all the shots being deleted off a film camera for a start

Touché. You are sadly talking to a member of the facebook generation I'm afraid where USB is often the saving factor.

PopeBuckfastXVI

So is it a digital, or film camera.

Open to correction, but I believe JPG's can have embedded thumbnails, this part of the file (along with the top portion of the image) may be intact, and the rest lost, which might account for the behaviour you are seeing.

PCPhoto

lads and lassies ... read the post.

the OP is hoping that the uncles (film) camera will have pics of the two of them together.

digital file appears to be corrupted - either the shop didn't recover/scan it properly...or you need to try do an image recovery (have a search for the many threads on here about the subject)

its important that the card is not used after images were deleted for recovery to work properly.

SDTimeout

Well... this has been an eventful day from studying / the leaving cert.

If you don't mind i'd like to post this here just in case it happens anyone else.

Here is the original file.



So through a program called JPEGsnoop ( mods delete if not allowed name programs! ) i managed to resize the thumbnail to an appropriate size and quality. Then through various flicking around and realligning some bottom parts of the photo through piant ( i hear the laughs ) then resized.



Now it's just a case of making that to a decent quality. Something called upscaling. Any help at this final furlong greatly appreciated!

mdebets

DaireQuinlan wrote: »

There's little chance of all the shots being deleted off a film camera for a start

Actually there is. Try opening a film camera with an exposed film in it which hasn't been rolled back properly into the cartridge.

tommycahir

Before you take any more photos with the camera and card have a look at this How-to from GavinZac on how to recover deleted photos from a memory card. --> Link

magicbastarder

mdebets wrote: »

Actually there is. Try opening a film camera with an exposed film in it which hasn't been rolled back properly into the cartridge.

strictly speaking, you're wrong. there's a difference between deleting and overwriting.

I had a hard drive fail on me and I used a program called GetDataBack to recover all of the content on it.

The hard drive was essentially dead, though, so I needed somewhere else to store the files, and had to return the drive to Argos, but still, I got everything back that I had lost. I'm sure the program would work with a memory card.


Could be worth a shot?