Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ18 is a 8.3 mega pixel camera with 18x optical zoom. The camera is equipped with intelligent auto mode, face detection technology, 27 MB inbuilt memory, and more powerful features. The camera also supports external storage media – SDHC (Secure Digital High Capacity) card to save pictures. The data saved in external media remains intact until it gets corrupted due to logical or physical crash. In most of these situations, the user encounters an error message while accessing the storage media. To overcome such media corruption scenarios, the user needs to format the storage media in the card and restore data from an updated backup. However, in case no backup is available or backup file itself gets corrupted, the user can use a third-party photo recovery software.

To illustrate the above issue in detail, consider a practical case wherein you have a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ18 with SDHC memory card. The card was working fine, until one day you encounter the below error message:

“MEMORY CARD ERROR”

After the above error message appears, the data saved in the memory card becomes inaccessible. In addition, you are unable to click/save any new photos from your camera.

Cause:

The above error message appears when the memory card gets corrupted or damaged.

Resolution:

To resolve the above SDHC memory card corruption error message, you will need to take below mentioned actions:

  1. Format the SDHC memory card in the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ18.
  2. Once the formatting is over, take an updated backup and restore photos back to the memory card.

The above resolution, although successful in most cases, can fail when you have not maintained any backup. In such situations, the formatted photos can only be accessed using an effective photo recovery utility.

Such photo recovery tools are built with interactive and wizard-style interface that makes them easily understandable. The photographer can rest assured about safety of the original data saved on the SDHC memory card. Moreover, the photographer can also preview its recoverable pictures before saving them at his/her required location.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is a world-wide known utility that recovers lost pictures post formatting. The read-only photo recovery software can recover data from almost all storage media, including, hard drives, USB drives, hard drives, and more. Designed for both Windows and Mac OS X, the recovery tool supports recovery of all audio, video, and camera file types.