File Naming convention for the G7

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.

Ah, years back. I'm glad that kludge was useful. Used my Ricoh R3 the other day, all 5MP still working well.

Just for Ricoh interest, while wandering in Okayama or Kanazawa in Japan last November I saw a guy carrying a GXR slung over his shoulder, somewhere in the mess I have a shot of him. Might dig it out later.

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.

Yes, forcing the file number up is the way to do it, but of course never use the reset option of file naming as it starts again from scratch on a fresh card.

The Panasonics if set to P1xxxxx, P2xxxxx, P3xxxxxx file separation would help each time a new camera brought into the house. The file separation of course being 100 x 1000 = 100,000 which is probably enough for normal folks.

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

Whatever works, some cameras are easier than others to jiggle the file numbering.

This system relies on dedicating one SD card per camera.

Absolutely, never swap active cards between cameras as the numbering just follows on from the highest on the card or last shot taken by the camera so can lead to all sorts of file name screwups.

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

Easy peasy with Olympus to edit the first 4 digits to something meaningful in the camera, problem then is that the file numbers roll over at 9999, so if you take 10,000 shots in one day you will get conflicts. So far I have files names of PL1Axxxx, PL1Bxxxx, EP3Axxxx, PL5Axxxx, PL5Bxxxx, EP5Axxxx and EP5Bxxxx all there somewhere.

As I store by day dated folders and never shoot 10,000 in a day, all is good. In fact before a long holiday I may reset to xxxx0001 just to keep a clear idea of how many shots are taken.

Regards........ Guy