File Naming convention for the G7

TomZacc wrote:

What is the file Naming convention for the G7? I have thousands of pictures from my G3, and I am curious if there will be any conflicts. Being that it's the same brand does the G7 use the same RAW/JPG naming convention as the older models? My G3 was up to _1080266/P1080266.

Seems to be the same all the way from my Panasonic LX3 to now.

On the card you will see a folder named 108 and in that folder the 266 file. The numbers get merged to give the P1080266 filename.

I presume it's still the same where Panasonic rolls over at 999 instead of the usual 9999 of most other cameras, and then in the above case creates a new folder called 109 and starts again at file 0001 in that folder.

The new G7 starts at P1010001 from memory and climbs from there and after a while you will see collisions with the G3 if dumping into the same folders.

I lessen that chance by loading to day dated folders, so there's only a rare chance that two cameras could be crossing the same number set on the same day. Plus of course I use Olympus so I can rename in camera to something that makes sense to me, ie EP5Axxxx and EP5Bxxxx separates the bodies, but they roll over at 9999 so then clashes with the same body could occur, except that I keep them day dated separated.

There's a few Casio cameras in the house that can also clash numbers, so I often prefix my filenames on upload with something that makes sense at the time, like my initials, or the camera model number.

One way to make sure your camera will not clash for a long while is to force the older camera to say P5000001 naming so it's roughly half a million shots ahead of the G7 so no clashes.

It's the older G3 files that may clash if you put new stuff in the same old folders - not recommended. So maybe better to force the new camera to the higher P5000001 number instead.

Cheating the Panasonic file numbering was a pain on the LX3 and I guess it's the same now as it's basically the same firmware http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~parsog/panasonic/24-fileno.html gives an idea of how to attack it.

As an aside, to see the true count of your camera shutter go to http://www.apotelyt.com/photo-camera/panasonic-g-shutter-count

Regards...... Guy