saving horribly over exposed pics

foreignmuck · Post by **foreignmuck** » Sat Nov 24, 2012 2:25 pm

Guys I just got back from a Cuba trip and my old point and shoot olympus 790sw decided to have a bit of an episode when I needed it most so have a bunch of pics from the best day on the flats that are just white over exposed glare. Any way of saving this? The software I currently have is picasa or the olympus master that came with the camera. Pretty low tech compared to the stuff the pros on here use I'm guessing but any tips on how I could try and save my pics would be most appreciated.

Below is the sort of thing I am trying to deal with here.

Cheers

thefly · Post by **thefly** » Sat Nov 24, 2012 5:28 pm

Mine did the same thing, I just deleted the photos and binned the camera.

Jeroen · Post by **Jeroen** » Sat Nov 24, 2012 6:03 pm

Overexposure is more serious than underexposure, especially when you take your pictures in JPG instead of RAW. Judging by that low res. pic I'd say they are a goner.

P-A · Post by **P-A** » Sat Nov 24, 2012 8:16 pm

I am with Jeroen on that one.

foreignmuck · Post by **foreignmuck** » Sat Nov 24, 2012 10:40 pm

Ah well. Cheers for the input guys.

Viking Lars · Post by **Viking Lars** » Sat Nov 24, 2012 11:39 pm

Don't delete them. They'll never become exhibit material, but they cab probably get better than this and still serve as good memories.

Send me a couple of the best in full res and let me try tweaking them a little.

Lars

foreignmuck · Post by **foreignmuck** » Sun Nov 25, 2012 12:20 am

Cheers Lars email on route.

TrevH · Post by **TrevH** » Sun Nov 25, 2012 1:20 am

Good luck with that!

On a similar subject, if you know someone involved in forensic analysis of computers etc, it's amazing what they can do with electronic data.

If ever you accidentally delete anything, or something gets fried, drowned, run over etc, don't give up... Find one of these guys ... I don't know if some photo shops have similar facilities to recover such disasters.

Main thing is to stop using the equipment straight away so as not to further corrupt the data and get them on the case ASAP.

Cheers
Trev

pyko · Post by **pyko** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 12:01 pm

Richard,
The guys are right, the highlights are so blown the image is all burnt out..
As Jeroen said, least with underexposure there's latent image in there that can be worked with.

Shame sorry.

foreignmuck · Post by **foreignmuck** » Tue Dec 04, 2012 10:35 pm

Cheers for trying Al. Hopefully back in May / June will just have to give it another go.

Jeroen · Post by **Jeroen** » Wed Dec 05, 2012 6:19 am

Best way to solve this problem

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