Ok, just got back from a trip through Spain, unfortunately, I deleted a bunch of pictures off my phone. Long story short, I ran out of space because I hadn't deleted pics from prior trips. Late one night I was deleting the files except, I also checked the file of my current trip.

What photo recovery program are preferred off an SD card?

My camera is a Canon PowerShot, not sure if it makes much of a difference.

Can't speak to what recovery program to use, but make sure right now to take that SD card out of the camera so your deleted files can't be overwritten. There may be some hope of finding an undelete program, but nothing can help files whose bits have been overwritten.

EaseUS makes some pretty powerful data recovery software. Free trials are available for most of their products.

-Rob

Recuva is a freeware that I've used to recover deleted files off an SD card.

Takes a while, but it does what it claims, and is free. Some of them out there claim to be free, but once they recover your photos they then want you to pay to be able to save them.

I have to ask. Why didn't you copy your files to a Hard Drive BEFORE doing any deleting? My kit on a trip is my camera, selected lenses, extra memory chips, and a LAPTOP to allow me to transfer my photos to a 1 TB hard drive I keep in the camera bag.

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Originally posted by Scooter123:
I have to ask. Why didn't you copy your files to a Hard Drive BEFORE doing any deleting? <snip>

In fairness to the OP, I don't travel with a laptop either (I already travel with enough "stuff", to include extra lenses, tripod, other gear, iPhone and iPad), so I'd rather not have one more thing to keep track of.

What I do try to do is clean out my memory cards before the trip. And if I'm feeling particularly paranoid, I'll shoot to both CF and SD cards (my Canon 5D4 supports both, although I sacrifice write speed for multiple consecutive shots). And memory cards are cheap now. A 64G card is less than $20, and on my 5D, that translates to over 3,000 photos (25GB per RAW file + 3-5GB per JPG). However, I still don't really have a "backup".

There are a handful of portable memory car backup devices out there, but they aren't cheap. Epson used to make a nice one, but that was in 2005. I have one of the Sanho ones that I swapped the hard drive in, but it's older too and slow.

I know this doesn't address the OP's original question, but I hope it helps.