There are several different grades of digital photo recovery software. Base level image recovery software is designed to search through your hard drive or a camera memory card looking for common and popular file extensions associated with digital photography. The most popular and well known of these would be a JPEG file. Higher quality and second level photo recovery software is created to recognize all of the most popular image file formats such as the aforementioned JPEG as well as GIFs and Bitmaps.
These better quality image recovery programs also have the ability to recognize and recover high end camera manufacturer’s proprietary storage formats. Every major camera manufacturer has one or more of these which they use exclusively for their product. An example of this would be Minolta MRW files. If your program for image recovery cannot recognize this file type, the program will be of no value in scanning your digital cameras memory card for lost photographs. Although File Finder is a general purpose deleted file recovery program it has a unique feature which allows it to also recognize any type of camera RAW file.
