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Posted on Aug 16, 2011

`i bought a canon Power shot A3150 IS camera and a memory card all the pics i took now have a question mark with unidentified image and a question mark where the picture should be also it says there is no space on the card but its 4gb i only took 60 pics so there should be loads of space. how can i get the pics back do ya no

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Same problem here on a Power Shot A3150 IS with a 8GB micro SD.
All worked well, then bom, only unidentified images. But the camera doesn't tell you unless you review the images...
Tried 5 recovery softwares dso far, some recover the images into a bmp, which then also says unidentified image... Even the camera can't read them.
And if I take a movie, I get an ASCII chaos in the folder the images are recorded in. No solution so far.

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SOURCE: "Unidentified Image"

you need some image recovery software that will fix the files that are corrupted

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SOURCE: Canon SD850 IS showing "unidentified image" after pic is taken

we have just experienced both of the above problems. We are using 2G SD card from Kingston. After about 400 pictures set to mdeium resolution we get many pictures with the ? mark unidentified image. I see that each image takes up about 2M of space but the image information is not stored so you can not open the file. Also other images have the shaded problem as above.

does anyone have any ideas about this. Is it the camera or the SD memory? We just bought the camera about 3 weeks ago and are now thinking of returning it

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Nov 14, 2009

SOURCE: i have the same problem w/ my canon ixus 100IS.UNIDENTIFIED IMaGE

Try using a card reader to download your pics. Also, go to a store like Walmart that has a Kodak picture maker machine. You should be able to see all of your pics and print them or even make a cd of them.

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SOURCE: when i insert 4gb memory card into canon power

Your new 4GB memory card is the problem. The card would likely be an SDHC card (look on its front cover). Your A540 camera was designed well before the SDHC format came out, and your camera will not recognize it. Your camera can only use standard SD cards (2GB or less). Here's some from Amazon.

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  • Posted on Jul 12, 2010

SOURCE: will my canon ixus 60 take a 16gb memory card

Yes. The IXUS 60 was designed to work with SD cards. Cards larger than 2GB are actually SDHC (the HC stands for High Capacity) and will not work in this camera.

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