File Naming convention for the G7

Tom Caldwell wrote:

alcelc wrote:

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?

Albert

Take the SD card out of the camera. Upload any images you wish. Either leave one image on it or take a fresh test one. Use the computer renumbering to change the first number of the folder that is currently being used on the card. If you set this number on the SD card the camera will automatically keep updating from there. For different cameras use a different start number.

I don't even know if you have to leave even one image on the card but that is how I have done it.

The camera reads the file number from the card and just keeps updating the last number it finds.

This way you can keep the numbering systems apart so that the files will not clash when stored in the same directory. The side benefit is that it becomes automatic once set up and no further attention is necessary.

Thank you for your head up. Very very useful indeed.