JPEG-Repair 2.8.249 updates Drag & drop in file browser. The file browser is archaic and I know it. At the same time it’s quite intertwined with JPEG-Repair functionality which makes it difficult to ditch it and replace it by default Windows file open and save dialogs. I myself am probably the most frequent user of… Read More »
Common perception is that recovery of photos and video from a in camera formatted memory card is a matter of running a file recovery or photo recovery tool. Many makers of this type of software also give the impression it is this simple (Easeus, Stellar, RecoverIt, all the usual suspects). However many Sony camera owners… Read More »
I long believed that it was close to impossible to repair visually distorted RAW photos. But a while back I was able to repair a visually distorted Nikon RAW photo (NEF) and now a Sony ARW RAW photo. What both these damaged files had in common though is that the portion of the file that… Read More »
Can corrupt NEF (Nikon RAW) files be repaired? A question I frequently get from people that discover my JPEG repair service. Can corrupt NEF (Nikon RAW) files be repaired? The answer is similar to the question ‘can a JPEG be repaired?’: If actual data is present then often Nikon RAW files can be repaired. The… Read More »
Repairing corrupt RAW files Repair of corrupt RAW files is difficult due to various reasons: They’re proprietary formats. Although many RAW photos internally are organized similar to TIFF files, they’re modified TIF files. Also actual image data encoding is different from format to format. Because they’re proprietary formats, there’s not much software (if any?) to… Read More »