DPReview.com is closing April 10th - Find out more

File Naming convention for the G7

Started Oct 7, 2015 | Questions thread
alcelc
alcelc Forum Pro • Posts: 19,006
Enlighten me please...

Tom Caldwell wrote:

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.

Dear Tom, can you teach me more on this?

-- hide signature --

Albert

 alcelc's gear list:alcelc's gear list
Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF3 Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX1 Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX7 Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX85 Panasonic G85 +11 more
Post (hide subjects) Posted by
(unknown member)
Keyboard shortcuts:
FForum PPrevious NNext WNext unread UUpvote SSubscribe RReply QQuote BBookmark MMy threads
Color scheme? Blue / Yellow