File Naming convention for the G7

rambler35 wrote:

And keep those cards separate for each camera.

Oh, yes, absolutely.

[Or maybe there's an easier way!]

I've got things to do today but later will experiment more with my LX3.

I cannot see why I can't create a "master set" of numbered folders in the PC then copy them as appropriate to a card and then the camera should carry on with the top folder number.

Such as - make a set 100- up to 200- by ones (painful but possibly easier in the PC than in the camera) then keep that forever to copy portions of it to whatever camera. Example - copy 100- to 130- to one camera to force it to shoot from 130- up, maybe the next camera copy 100- to 150- to force it to be 150- and up, then a third camera copy 100- to 180- to force it to be 180- up.

The painful master set would only need to be made once for each brand of camera, such as 100_PANA series and 100OLYMP and 100CASIO series etc, using how their folders are actually named on the cards themselves.

Here's how my card looks from the LX3 after doing the instructions a few times, that would be a nice master set start for future fiddles so I will copy it to somewhere safe and expand it later.....

Not tested yet but am not sure whether an actual shot needs to be in each folder, they maybe all could be empty or maybe just each folder with a single 0001 shot in it. I'll find out later.

The MISC folder is not essential, it gets created anyway on the first shot.

Oh, yes, set the camera to a small highly compressed jpeg to make the master set of folders, I had left mine on large files and raw as well so a huge mess to tidy up in the master set. Swap back to proper jpeg and raw etc once the numbers are where you need them.

Regards....... Guy