Pentax Optio S5i

Jack mumbles:

Your expert opinion invited:

My buddy called from out in the northern wastes. He's pushed the 'format'
button on his new PentaxOptio S5i digital camera.

Are all his photos 'gone'?

With your help perhaps I can pass on advice to him.

Thanks,

Jack

 

Jack, if he formatted the SD card then yes, all the photos that were on that
card are gone, at least as far as ordinary retrieval procedures are
concerned. It is possible that they can be recovered with some kind of
software made for that purpose, if the memory space has not already been
overwritten. I have never used such software and so have no advice regarding
it.

There's no "format button" on that type of camera. In order to format the SD
card he would have had to go into the menu system, then the "setup" menu,
select "format" and then press "OK." If that's what he did, then tell him
not to do that anymore if he wants to keep the photos on the card.

N.