I have used several recovery programmes, all seem to be good, some recovering most if not all, and others geared towards specific types of camera files
first is PC inspector smart recovery www.convar.de its a freebie
second is http://www.recuva.com/ not as good, infact a little unweidly but its free, infact all these are..
http://www.majorgeeks.com/Ultimate_Data_Recovery_d5336.html
and http://www.snapfiles.com/get/restoration.html


Hope these work for you.

BTW hi to this forum, its been inspirational