The Sony Cyber Shot DSC R-1 digital camera is the first non-SLR (fixed lens digital) camera to feature a large format sensor. It is a 10.3 mega pixel camera that provides a top-mounted LCD screen and large format sensor. The storage medium used in Sony R1 digital camera is memory stick or compact flash memory cards. A compact flash media card or a memory stick can be corrupted and become inaccessible due to loss of firmware update file, malware, virus etc. In such circumstances, you need to restore the pictures from the latest back up. But if you have not maintained an updated backup including the pictures in the flash card, then you need to go for quality Photo Recovery Software.

For example, when a user attempts to view the pictures in Sony R1 digital camera (which consists of a Compact Flash memory card), he receives the below error message:

�Error30: Format CF card before use�

After the above error message appears, the pictures saved in the flash card become unreadable and inaccessible. The main reason for the above error message is that there are multiple files or folders on the flash memory card and as it was not formatted before the firmware update file was transferred. To resolve the above error and save new pictures in the flash card, the user needs to format the memory card in the camera, and then redo the entire Software Updating Instructions procedure. Formatting the flash memory card will delete all the previously stored pictures in the memory card. In such situations, the user needs to perform Photo Recovery by using third party software known as photo recovery software. A Picture Recovery application incorporates advanced scanning algorithms to recover and restore all the lost pictures.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery application successfully recovers all pictures from various storage media including Flash Cards, Memory Sticks, Sony Memory Stick, IBM Micro Drive, SD Cards, MMC Cards, XD Cards, Secure Digital Card, Zip Disks and Mini Disks. This read only Picture Recovery software is compatible with wide array of audio and video file formats. This photo recovery utility provides interactive user interface that makes it easy to understand and implement. This Photo Recovery application comes in two versions to support Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS. The Windows version supports Windows Vista, XP, 2003, 2000 and NT. The Mac OS version supports Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, 10.4 Tiger and 10.3.9 Panther. The demo version of this Picture Recovery Software is available on Stellar�s website and popular shareware websites.