Sony Cyber-shot Photo Recovery Software

Sony Cyber-shot is a range of high resolution Digital SLR (DSLR) camera manufactured by Sony. It is a perfect blend of innovative design with full features that fulfills every need for a professional camera user. Its features include water-proof, 4x zooming; LCD display and more. The camera supports data storage on all major memory cards like Memory stick, Memory stick PRO Duo, SD and SDHC card.

You can store huge amount of photos, RAW images and videos on these secured memory cards but they have their own limitations. Similar to any other storage device this memory card throws up errors, resulting in corruption and photo loss from Sony Cyber-shot camera. The situation becomes even worse, if you don’t have backup of the lost data. In such circumstances opt for card recovery software to retrieve your files back.

Note: Whatever may be the reason for losing photos, the first thing you need to do after such situation, is to stop using your camera and keep it in a safe place to avoid physical damages. Because adding or capturing new photos from your digital camera will overwrite you’re deleted / lost photos making recovery very difficult.

Common reasons for photo loss from Sony Cyber-shot Camera are:

  • Accidentally clicking on “Delete All” button on your Cyber-shot digital camera
  • Photos may get lost from Sony Cyber-shot camera due to transfer errors
  • Computer asking to format memory card, as soon as you connect your Sony Cyber-shot camera
  • Erasing one or more picture folder from the camera or when connected to system/li>
  • Sony’s memory card inaccessible due to virus infections
  • Using your cameras memory card on multiple electronic devices
  • Ejecting the memory card from Sony digital camera during read / write process
  • Camera firmware issues and many other reason

Which card recovery software to use after such scenarios?

You can use Yodot Mac Photo Recovery software to retrieve all your lost and deleted photo files from Sony Cyber-shot camera. The software thoroughly scans your digital cameras memory card and recovers all photo files from it. Other than photo files, the tool also supports recovery of other media files like RAW images, videos and music files from various flash memory cards, iPods, USB drives, external hard drives and computer hard dive. It supports recovery of digital RAW images from all popular camera brands including Sony, Samsung, Fuji, Nikon, Canon, Kodak, LG, Olympus, Philips and so on. Hence, with this recovery utility, one can easily restore any number of picture files missing from DSLR on Mac systems with high-end results.

Procedure to retrieve images from Sony Cyber-shot camera:

  • Download Yodot Card Recovery and install the software
  • Attach your Sony Cyber-shot DSLR camera to your computer
  • Run the installed software and follow the main screen procedure
  • Click on “Deleted Photo Recovery” option to get back your deleted photo files or
  • Click on “Lost Photo Recovery” option to retrieve your missing pictures from Sony Cyber-shot
  • The tool scans and shows all the cards and drives connected to the system
  • Select the card drive which represents your Sony camera
  • The application scans again and shows all the photos and other media files which can be recovered
  • Preview and select the photo files which you want to obtain back
  • At last, save your recovered photo files to your desired destination location
  • The software also provides option to, save your recovered photo files to any external storage device like USB drive, portable hard drive, optical drives (CDs and DVDs) etc

Suggestions:

  • Don’t save your recovered images back to your Sony Cyber-shot camera, which will result in overwriting
  • Make use of “write protect” knob to avoid accidental deletion or format
  • Regularly transfer your important photos from camera to any external storage device
  • If your Sony memory card is full, then avoiding saving new files to it

Other Popular Software

Yodot Photo Recovery (Windows)

Recover and restore deleted photos lost from your digital camera memory card or the images from your Windows PC. The software can recover all popular image types including popular audio and video files.

Yodot Mac File Recovery

The only undelete application for Mac that can recover deleted files from HFS+, HFSX partitions on Mac. The software also has the ability to recover lost files using RAW signature method.