Programs designed to help one recover deleted photos differ greatly in their ability to find and reconstruct image files. This software also varies greatly in price relative to its ability. While some programs to recover digital photos are limited to finding and copying simple and popular image file types on the internal hard drive of a computer others are capable of doing all of that and recognizing the all important camera manufacturer’s RAW files. There are even digital photo recovery programs that can repair the damaged JPEG or other popular image file type pictures.
While no program can do all of these functions one still needs to purchase the program that best suits their requirements. Your requirements in a digital photo recovery program will be tied to the type of camera you use. If your choice of camera is a simple point and shoot from Wal-Mart the corresponding digital photo recovery tool for you need not be a high end specialty program that supports camera manufacturer files. Yet if you use any of the better camera types such as a Canon, Nikon, or Minolta you will need to download and purchase a program to recover digital photos that supports the RAW files from your camera type and model.