9999 rollover and susequent file names

I've gone over the dreaded 9999 without a hitch but one thing I've noticed is that the picture/file number is the same as it was before it flipped over. i.e. L4JE0001, L4JE0002, etc. When I load these onto my computer it means I will have two files of that name (the ones from when I first got the camera and the ones I'm talking now). Is there an easy way round this? I'm obviously missing something simple but I'm on an extended shoot at the moment and don't have the instruction book with me.

Thanks in advance.

Can't help but grrr how that would irritate me.... Good job I've only had my camera a month then isn't it!
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David Simmonite said:

I've gone over the dreaded 9999 without a hitch but one thing I've
noticed is that the picture/file number is the same as it was
before it flipped over. i.e. L4JE0001, L4JE0002, etc. When I load
these onto my computer it means I will have two files of that name
(the ones from when I first got the camera and the ones I'm talking
now). Is there an easy way round this? I'm obviously missing
something simple but I'm on an extended shoot at the moment and
don't have the instruction book with me.

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There is nothing you can set in the camera to prevent this.

My MkII cameras are several years old and they have rolled over the 9999 mark MANY times. My standard workflow is to place all the original images into folders according to the date/event/game etc. So while I have many photos with the same name, they are in different folders or on different drives.

If this creates a problem for you then you need to add a step in your workflow whereby you rename or add a prefix/suffix to the original image like date or date/time that would ensure you never have two images with the same name.

Hi I've had the same issue with my 1D2.

Now when I down load to my computer I place all the images in a folder named 'to be renumbered', I then use IRFANVIEW (free) to renumber the files by adding a 1, so the file that was L4JE0001 is now L4JE10001, when I get to 20,000 I'll do the same but add a 2.

i now refile the shots in my folder of choice

Easy Peasy

Alan

You can batch rename with one click....IMG_0001 > IMG_10001 for example. It remembers the sequence, so all you have to do is copy the files from your card, select all in DPP, select rename, click execute.
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Gary
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Growing up in the 70's british cars had odometers that went only to 99,999 miles then back to zero (most of the cars rusted away long before they reached that) . Foreign cars' odometers, at least well made ones like Saab etc. went to 999,999 which at first appeared pretentious until we realised they would actually go way over 100,000 (my father in law had a Volvo 164 for 30 years that went over 300,000).

So if camera manufactures want to portray longevity of their product for marketing purposes why don't they make their counters go up to 99,999 or 999,999 even?!

Colin99 said:

So if camera manufactures want to portray longevity of their
product for marketing purposes why don't they make their counters
go up to 99,999 or 999,999 even?!

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It has nothing to do with portrayed longevity. There is only space on the LCD displays for x-number of digits. 4-digits seems like a reasonable number. It sure beats the 999-rollover on some other models. Even though I shoot thousands of images per week the rollover is really not a big deal. If you shoot less it's even less of an issue.

The filenames are some standard format that only goes up to 1000.

I found the best solution (for me), is to rename the files YYYYMMDD_original_file_name

Lightroom can do this when you import, or I wrote a perl script for before I was using light room.

If I shot more than 10,000 frames in a day this system wouldn't work. I haven't come close.

David Simmonite said:

I've gone over the dreaded 9999 without a hitch but one thing I've
noticed is that the picture/file number is the same as it was
before it flipped over.

Thanks in advance.

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Yes, I find this an inconvenience since I rolled over -- I really want sequential numbering for various reasons. I understand the 8 digit file name, but the IMG prefix is useless.

I use lightroom - but don't use the import feature since I download to desktop or laptop.

The easy way is to use Canon Utility (download the latest version if you don't have it).

Go to Preferences, File name and you have some options in 'customize'.
I use - shooting year(last two digits) 1 Image Number -

This keeps the same numbering system as the camera raw - once I hit 9999 again, I'll change the '1' to '2'.

There's lots of customizing options - but this way I get consistent results if I download to my laptop or desktop - numbers will not overlap.

Kevin.

Started it with a 10D, now with a 20D and when some nice person gives me a 5D (lol!) I keep going with the system.

Take this photo:



Its file name on the card is/was IMG_3843, but as I am on the 3rd roll over, I have renamed it 338-3843 on the computer.

There's a program called A Better Finder Rename (for Mac - should be other choices on window machines) that I use to batch rename the files when I offload them. When I get to 999-9999, I'll just go to 1000-0001.

michael

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