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I passed the 10000 mark today and imagenames reset themselves to amgp0001.pef, amgp0002.pef

What do you do? Leave it and trust the directory structure to keep images from overwriting? Use the K20D's custom renaming menu and set the alpha part of the filenames to another prefix (likely would become bmgp0001.pef etc)?

Any other ideas?

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Since I have both a K20D and a K7, what I did was to set the alpha string to be K20 and K70, respectively. When the K20D counter turned over earlier this year, I changed its string to K21. I suppose this will be a problem if Pentax makes a K2 sometime in the future :-)

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newmikey said:
I passed the 10000 mark today and imagenames reset themselves to amgp0001.pef, amgp0002.pef

What do you do? Leave it and trust the directory structure to keep images from overwriting? Use the K20D's custom renaming menu and set the alpha part of the filenames to another prefix (likely would become bmgp0001.pef etc)?

Any other ideas?

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newmikey said:
I passed the 10000 mark today and imagenames reset themselves to amgp0001.pef, amgp0002.pef

What do you do? Leave it and trust the directory structure to keep images from overwriting? Use the K20D's custom renaming menu and set the alpha part of the filenames to another prefix (likely would become bmgp0001.pef etc)?
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I rename all my files to YYYYMMDD-CCC-XXXXX, where:
YYYYMMDD is year, month and day
CCC - camera model
XXXXX - five digit image number (taken from shutter count EXIF tag)

So, my files become 20100914-K7-12345.DNG, 20100914-K10D-34567.DNG and so on.

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Edvinas said:
I rename all my files to YYYYMMDD-CCC-XXXXX
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I use a similar scheme.

Everytime I transfer to my PC, a directory is created with the name "yyyymmddxx" (yyyymmdd is the date, xx is a sequential number). Each image transfered goes into this directory with the name "yyyymmddxx-yyy.ext", where "yyyymmddxx" is the same as the directory name, "yyy" is a sequential counter, and "ext" is the file extension (.jpg, .dng, .pef - I shoot RAW+, and the JPG and its associated raw have the same name except for the extension).

All this is done automatically with a script I wrote.
 
I have a *istD, K10, K20 and K-7. On my hard drive I have a separate folder for each. Within each of those folders are folders for each year I've had the camera. Within each of THOSE folders I have a sub-folder titled YYYYMMDD_location, based on where and when I took photos. Over the last 6 years each camera has rolled over a number of times and there hasn't been much trouble finding a photo and no problems overwriting similar file names.

Just another point of view...
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iCrop said:
I have a *istD, K10, K20 and K-7. On my hard drive I have a separate folder for each. Within each of those folders are folders for each year I've had the camera. Within each of THOSE folders I have a sub-folder titled YYYYMMDD_location, based on where and when I took photos. Over the last 6 years each camera has rolled over a number of times and there hasn't been much trouble finding a photo and no problems overwriting similar file names.

Just another point of view...
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Hi Mike,

I do the same as you concerning folders and the different cameras.

Also, I shoot in PEF then run it through the Adobe DNG converter and while doing so I change the name of the file to MMDDYY_imgpxxxx.dng. Another advantage of the DNG converter is it automatically gets rid of any hot pixels.

Just my 2 cents.

Cheers.

Ron

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Carl - 'What do you mean? It will only take 1/1000s.'

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brandrx said:
Hi Mike,

I do the same as you concerning folders and the different cameras.

Also, I shoot in PEF then run it through the Adobe DNG converter and while doing so I change the name of the file to MMDDYY_imgpxxxx.dng. Another advantage of the DNG converter is it automatically gets rid of any hot pixels.

Just my 2 cents.

Cheers.

Ron

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Ron - 'We don't have time to go take pics this afternoon Carl.'
Carl - 'What do you mean? It will only take 1/1000s.'

'Keep your eyes looking forward. However, glance back now and then to see where you've come from. It will put a smile on your face.' ~ brandrx
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Hey Ron, how are you doing?

I guess one has to use a storage scheme like we do, burning hundreds of frames a day trap focusing hummingbirds...

I shoot PEF on all my cameras except the K-7. Was using CS3, which couldn't convert PEFs from the K-7 when I got it, so used DNG for it and haven't switched back, even though I moved on to CS5.
Haven't noticed any hot pixels in my shots, my cameras are all Pentax. ;-)
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iCrop said:
Hey Ron, how are you doing?

I guess one has to use a storage scheme like we do, burning hundreds of frames a day trap focusing hummingbirds...
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Haha...so true. :-) At one point in time I had eleven Pentax DSLR's and had to keep the files separate. "Our" method seemed to me to be the best way to go.
iCrop said:
I shoot PEF on all my cameras except the K-7. Was using CS3, which couldn't convert PEFs from the K-7 when I got it, so used DNG for it and haven't switched back, even though I moved on to CS5.
Haven't noticed any hot pixels in my shots, my cameras are all Pentax. ;-)
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I started doing the DNG converter thing back during my days of the *istDS. Both mine and my brother's had hot pixels.

Another thing is that the DNG converter compacts the files even if you are doing a DNG to converted DNG so you end up with a lot smaller files without losing any data. In the end I just delete all of my PEF files. If I were a pro I guess I would probably keep both the compacted DNG's and the PEF's.

Cheers.

Ron

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Ron - 'We don't have time to go take pics this afternoon Carl.'
Carl - 'What do you mean? It will only take 1/1000s.'

'Keep your eyes looking forward. However, glance back now and then to see where you've come from. It will put a smile on your face.' ~ brandrx
 
I archive my originals with their original camera-given filenames in directories of the date they were taken, and subdirectories for the different cameras that day if I used more than one. So this is a nonissue for me, unless I shoot more than 10,000 with one camera on the same day.

I'm not worried.
 
brandrx said:
so I change the name of the file to MMDDYY_imgpxxxx.dng.
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Such naming completely breaks sorting by file name...

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Edvinas
 
Edvinas said:
brandrx said:
so I change the name of the file to MMDDYY_imgpxxxx.dng.
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Such naming completely breaks sorting by file name...
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I don't know where you get that. Mine sort just fine. In each of the folders they begin at MMDDYY_imgp0001.dng and end at MMDDYY_imgp9999.dng

Works just fine for me.

Cheers.

Ron

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Ron - 'We don't have time to go take pics this afternoon Carl.'
Carl - 'What do you mean? It will only take 1/1000s.'

'Keep your eyes looking forward. However, glance back now and then to see where you've come from. It will put a smile on your face.' ~ brandrx
 
newmikey said:
I passed the 10000 mark today and imagenames reset themselves to amgp0001.pef, amgp0002.pef

What do you do? Leave it and trust the directory structure to keep images from overwriting? Use the K20D's custom renaming menu and set the alpha part of the filenames to another prefix (likely would become bmgp0001.pef etc)?

Any other ideas?
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I also passed the 9999 img mark with my K20D recently.

I also used the custom renaming function, but instead of changing the first letter, I changed the "P" to a "1".

ie- IMG10000.PEF

This also works with JPGs (I usually shoot RAW+JPG).
 
I usually blurt out a few expletives . . . :D

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I have a K20D... my in-camera naming is currently POG0. When it flips over, I'll change it to POG1.
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What a Co-incidence, I just passed the 10,000 photo mark yesterday. As for what I do, nothing really, I put all my photos in their own folders based on date, so I never get overlapping photo names in the same directory.

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Lance
 
I changed IMGP into KVD0, later KVD1 for the K20 (custom renaming function), and KXD0 for the KX (using graphic converter renaming). I keep the original files by order, the edited (photoshop) files into folders according to the subject, but with the same names.
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brandrx said:
I don't know where you get that. Mine sort just fine. In each of the folders they begin at MMDDYY_imgp0001.dng and end at MMDDYY_imgp9999.dng
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011010_imgp1111.dng
021009_imgp0111.dng
021210_imgp1222.dng
122508_imgp0001.dng

Isn't that broken sorting? :)

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Edvinas
 
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