Pentax RAW PEF Photo Recovery

Higher end digital cameras let you shoot images in RAW format (as well as the standard JPEG). Images captured in RAW contain more data making it possible to do
more extensive editing such as changing exposure and white balance.

Pentax raw PEF camera list:
Pentax ist D/ist DL/ist DL2/ ist DS/ist DS2, K10D/20D/100D/100D Super/110D/200D/645D, K2000, K-m, K-5, K-7, K-r, K-x.

The raw photos taken with your Pentax camera are usually stored on the memory card, the raw PEF files may get lost if the card get deleted, formatted or corrupted. Then, you will have the necessity to restore your lost raw image files.

Generally, recover raw photos lost from camera memory card is entirely possible as long as the volume and data on it is not overwritten by a new created and formatted volume. Then, you can restore Pentax lost Raw PEF image files with Odboso Photo Retrieval with the following step by step guide:

Both Windows version for Window 8/7/Vista/XP and Mac Version for Mac OS X Mountain Lion/Lion/Snow Leopard/Leopard are available to download:

Step one: Launch the program with the recovery wizard.

Step two: Select storage device to scan.

Plug your Pentax camera in the computer, and you camera will display as a “Removable Disk Drive” in the main panel of the program. Select it as the storage device to scan.

Step three: Specify scanning file types.
Select “Pentax RAW(.pef)” as the scanning file types under the “Camera Raw Image” menu. Then click “Next” to start search and scan.

Step four: Recovery Pentax Raw PEF image files.

During the scanning process, the program will generate a thumbnail of the recoverable image files, you can double click it to preview it in a large size.

Step five: Define an output location to store the recovered raw photos.