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I am a wedding and babtisis photographer and the worst thing hapenned to me. The photographer I hired (for my own son's babtisis) shoot 300 raw photos with a new canon 5D using my extremeIV compact flash memory and then (later one) reshoot the entire 8GB with an other 300 raw photos.

The initial 300 photos are lost and scandisk rescue pro program cannot recover them.

Any ideas that you can help me? I searched the forums but could not find anything that I haven't done.
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elphoto said:
I am a wedding and babtisis photographer and the worst thing hapenned to me. The photographer I hired (for my own son's babtisis) shoot 300 raw photos with a new canon 5D using my extremeIV compact flash memory and then (later one) reshoot the entire 8GB with an other 300 raw photos.

The initial 300 photos are lost and scandisk rescue pro program cannot recover them.

Any ideas that you can help me? I searched the forums but could not find anything that I haven't done.
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elphoto
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So just to check if I get it correctly: The photographer deleted the raws from the CF, and used now empty card and filled it up at another shoot, right? The question is: Why did he deletete them?

In any case, if they are overwritten, its over. Some people may claim that there are some recovery options for hard drives (they are wrong, i work in magnetic microscopy), but for flash there is not even a hint of a possibility for anything but fragment recovery.
 
Shouldn't a pro have had his own CF card? Why did you give him one with images already on it anyway? Especially if you hadn't backedthem up to hard disk?
 
The problem here isn't that the original photos were deleted. Rather, it is that the entire card was used to write new images subsequent to the first shots. This means that yes, the original photos are gone. If they had merely been deleted, there might be something to recover. But the space they were on has subsequently been used, meaning that every wedding shot taken had to use the space previously occupied by your personal shots.

Imagine a school hallway of lockers. At the end of the year, the tumblers are reset but the contents were never cleared out. Only when a new student comes in and wants to put their own stuff in the locker are the contents from last year removed and thrown out.

In this case, school ended, but the lockers already have their new occupants.

We've all lost important personal photos before. Best thing you can do is learn how to never let it happen again.
elphoto said:
I am a wedding and babtisis photographer and the worst thing hapenned to me. The photographer I hired (for my own son's babtisis) shoot 300 raw photos with a new canon 5D using my extremeIV compact flash memory and then (later one) reshoot the entire 8GB with an other 300 raw photos.

The initial 300 photos are lost and scandisk rescue pro program cannot recover them.

Any ideas that you can help me? I searched the forums but could not find anything that I haven't done.
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elphoto
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If he re-shot the card to capacity that means that every single byte was re-written over. :(

That is very different than if he had simply just deleted all files or done a quick format on the card.

For a HD, theoretically, maybe the NSA might recover some of anyway with extreme effort and even then, just maybe and probably only some but for flash I really doubt it could ever be recovered by any technology ever.
 
bronxbombers said:
If he re-shot the card to capacity that means that every single byte was re-written over. :(

That is very different than if he had simply just deleted all files or done a quick format on the card.

For a HD, theoretically, maybe the NSA might recover some of anyway with extreme effort and even then, just maybe and probably only some but for flash I really doubt it could ever be recovered by any technology ever.
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It would appear that if shooting RAW files, the card would have been refomatted or the files deleted prior to the second shoot. Maybe the OP can tell us exactly what was done.

It's also not clear if the second shoot was with the same 5d or another body. Typically switching bodies without reformatting would cause anotther folder to be created on the card. The camera will continue shooting until space runs out.

I"m assuming the files are RAW and not sRAW. One could possibly get 600 sRAW files on an 8 gig card. Only the OP knows which was used.
 
Nikon1977 said:
bronxbombers said:
If he re-shot the card to capacity that means that every single byte was re-written over. :(

That is very different than if he had simply just deleted all files or done a quick format on the card.

For a HD, theoretically, maybe the NSA might recover some of anyway with extreme effort and even then, just maybe and probably only some but for flash I really doubt it could ever be recovered by any technology ever.
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It would appear that if shooting RAW files, the card would have been refomatted or the files deleted prior to the second shoot. Maybe the OP can tell us exactly what was done.

It's also not clear if the second shoot was with the same 5d or another body. Typically switching bodies without reformatting would cause anotther folder to be created on the card. The camera will continue shooting until space runs out.

I"m assuming the files are RAW and not sRAW. One could possibly get 600 sRAW files on an 8 gig card. Only the OP knows which was used.
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well op said they are lost so i think it is safe to say that they are not sitting in a different directory on the card and he also said the second shoot used up the full 8gigs again so i'm afraid every last byte was re-written, only chance is if he as mistaken about second shoot using up the full 8GB
 
Once the images are overwritten they are gone forever. I formatted a CF card from my 5DII and couldn't recover any images using Recuva recovery software. Too bad CF cards don't have a 'lock' switch like the SD cards so it can't be formatted.
 
Well thanks for your time replying. Reviewing your comments it is obvious to me that the photos are in heaven. It is funny because this never hapenned to any of my clients but it hapenned to me. The good thing is that the photographer lost the photos up to the point the ceremony started. from that point on all pictures are safe.

Thanks again!
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elphoto
 
you can always stage the whole thing and get a new batch of photos. maybe not the whole ceremony but just some pics of the baptism itself. In 20 years from now you will still be able to look at them, remind the whole story and have a good laugh on the uncapable photog.
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Paul Boothroyd said:
Sandisk RescuePRO works well, even after formatting and sometimes even overwriting.
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The OP did say "The initial 300 photos are lost and scandisk rescue pro program cannot recover them. "
 
He could only overwrite the first photos if he deleted the photos from the card, or formatted the card.
Did he do that? Why?

If you retreived 8 Gb of photos from the second session, then there isn't anything alse on the card.
elphoto said:
I am a wedding and babtisis photographer and the worst thing hapenned to me. The photographer I hired (for my own son's babtisis) shoot 300 raw photos with a new canon 5D using my extremeIV compact flash memory and then (later one) reshoot the entire 8GB with an other 300 raw photos.

The initial 300 photos are lost and scandisk rescue pro program cannot recover them.

Any ideas that you can help me? I searched the forums but could not find anything that I haven't done.
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elphoto
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