Saturday, April 28, 2012

Formatting my digital camera

After getting back my digital camera, Sony HX9V, from my brother I wanted to erase all the photos/videos which he has taken. I was surprised that I was seeing a photo of his even after formatting the memory card via the camera.

Inserting the memory card on my mac proved that the content was not in memory card but in an internal memory of the camera itself. And the option to format this memory appears on settings only after taking out the memory card. Now this also helped me understand why on connecting the camera to my mac I am seeing 3 drives inserted where 2 of them have the same name (one was internal memory and other was memory card).