Changing image numbers on digital camera
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From: Gordon Darling on 9 May 2010 06:46 On Sun, 09 May 2010 17:27:56 +1000, Mike Echo wrote: <snip> > I have always had the numbering system set to continuous in my settings, > but the new card saw the numbers reset back to the start. Not wanting to > overwrite images, I wanted to number continuously. Anyways, after > scroogling my fingers to the bone, I see that people recommend taking > one picture, renaming it on the memory card to the next number in the > sequence, then all following pictures will follow that sequence. I did > this and it seems to work, so the answer was pretty simple in the end. > > I'd still like to know where the highest number is stored. It must be on > the camera coz even when you move all photos off the card, it still > knows the highest number for that card. > > Thanks for all the replies and the interesting diversional arguments. As an additional line of inquiry. Try putting "sequential numbering" +camera into Google 10.900 hits. Regards Gordon -- ox·y·mo·ron n. pl. ox·y·mo·ra or ox·y·mo·rons A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in Microsoft Security, Microsoft Help and Microsoft Works.
From: Martin Clark on 9 May 2010 07:37 Mike Echo <me(a)privacy.org> wrote in news:MPG.26510f0a57232c1f98968c(a)news.eternal-september.org: > In article <4be5fb03$0$3697$afc38c87(a)read01.usenet4all.se>, > me(a)privacy.net says... > >> On Sat, 08 May 2010 16:14:13 +1000, Mike Echo wrote: >> >> > Is there some small util that will let me change the current >> > counter for the images on my digital camera? > >> If you can't find appropriate settings on the camera try to fool the >> camera this way. >> >> Insert new memory card into camera. >> Format as necessary. >> Copy back on to the DCIM folder on the new memory card the highest >> numbered picture from your PC. >> Take new picture >> Sequential numbering "should" continue from last number. Apparently >> works on most cameras which conform to the "Design rule for Camera >> File system". > > I have always had the numbering system set to continuous in my > settings, but the new card saw the numbers reset back to the start. > Not wanting to overwrite images, I wanted to number continuously. > Anyways, after scroogling my fingers to the bone, I see that people > recommend taking one picture, renaming it on the memory card to the > next number in the sequence, then all following pictures will follow > that sequence. I did this and it seems to work, so the answer was > pretty simple in the end. > > I'd still like to know where the highest number is stored. It must be > on the camera coz even when you move all photos off the card, it still > knows the highest number for that card. Ditto for my Samsung camera. I've messed about with stuff on the camera card when it is mounted as a USB device. The only thing I did wrong was rotate an image using the (explorer default) picture viewer - then the camera complained that there was an error in the image - fair enough I suppose :-) It would display once moved off the camera.
From: David Catterall on 9 May 2010 10:36 metspitzer wrote: >> I don't understand why all auto generated file names are not some form >> of .....software.date.time.jpg >> >> or lastname.date.time.jpg >> >> or anything.date.time.jpg >> >> or da.mo.yr.jpg > > or da.mo.yr.(1-n).jpg My Nokia E90 does da.mo.year.(001-999).jpg David
From: Gordon Darling on 9 May 2010 11:07 On Sun, 09 May 2010 15:36:31 +0100, David Catterall wrote: > metspitzer wrote: > >>> I don't understand why all auto generated file names are not some form >>> of .....software.date.time.jpg >>> >>> or lastname.date.time.jpg >>> >>> or anything.date.time.jpg >>> >>> or da.mo.yr.jpg >> >> or da.mo.yr.(1-n).jpg > > My Nokia E90 does da.mo.year.(001-999).jpg Useful. Don't have have that option on my Olympus. Manual says; (Setting) whether frame numbers are assigned consecutively from previous numbers or begin again. CONT.: Pictures are stored beginning from the highest file number stored on the last xDPicture Card used. RENEW: Pictures are stored on each xD-Picture Card beginning with a file number “0001”. Setting this function to “CONT.” makes file management easier as it makes sure that file names are not duplicated when images are downloaded to a PC. ●! When the camera settings are “q RESET”, the frame number setting (“CONT.” or “RENEW”) is changed to “CONT.” and the frame number itself does not return to “0001”. ●! When the xD-Picture Card already contains image files with file numbers higher than the highest file number on the last xD-Picture Card, images are stored beginning from the highest file number on the current xD-Picture Card. Regards Gordon -- ox·y·mo·ron n. pl. ox·y·mo·ra or ox·y·mo·rons A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in Microsoft Security, Microsoft Help and Microsoft Works.
From: Mike Echo on 10 May 2010 05:46
In article <hs7h6b02u27(a)news4.newsguy.com>, DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net says... > My Canon dSLR works as expected when swapping Compact Flash cards and is set to; > File numbering --> Continuous > > What did Canon say when you asked their Tech Support ? I didn't contact Canon. I used acf tech support first. :-) Actually, I don't have a great deal of faith in most companies' tech support people as they are usually the cheapest labour available. There are some exceptions though. R. |