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File Naming convention for the G7

Started Oct 7, 2015 | Questions thread
MOD Tom Caldwell Forum Pro • Posts: 46,360
It is very easy dealt with by a simple Guy-inspired-tweak
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Guy I was forever indebted to your Ricoh kludge where by renaming the last file on your SD card with a new lead number that camera would continue thereafter to follow the new sequence.

This  worrks fine with Panasonic cameras as well.  Now with multiple Panasonic bodies I can have "1" series "2" series, etc files - all done automatically.  I put a little dymo tag on my camera "GM1-1", "GM1-2", etc and this allows the file sequences to be kept quite separately but also to be identified back to the creating camera body.  A a result all images can be thrown into the same directory without any chance of conflict.  They can be sorted in date order of by file number at will.

Simple as and no need for any storage jinking around or renaming.

This system relies on dedicating  one SD card per camera.

The E-M1 at least is different and it allows custom file sequnce renaming in camera under firmware control.

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