As Schlake (William Colburn) once said, > I have a giant tree in the form of dp/YYYY/MM/DD that contains pictures > by day. Having dealt with Windows and a couple of Nikon P&Ss, followed > by my Canon 300D that has multiple file naming schemes depending on which > phase of the moon I offload my pictures in, I just don't expect anything > from the vendor provided filenames. As a result, everything is sorted off > the EXIF data. Once day I borrowed Warrn's 10D and used it beside my > 300D and I did have a filename conflict, so I just renamed all the files > to HHMMSS and called it done.
I don't know that the original poster was intending to use the filenames for anything particular. I rename all my files based on EXIF info as well, but I'm anal retentive and like to have a rough idea of how many shutter cycles my camer has been through. I estimate that my 10D went through somewhere between 20 and 30k before selling it (lucky thing there is no counter you can check, unlike the 1D and friends). > Beside the dp tree which stands for "digital pictures" I make an index > tree that contains low quality thumbnails no larger than 640 on a side, > a dvd tree which is an exact copy of dp broken up into DVD sized chunks > for burning, a crw tree which is only the crw and cr3 files in DVD sized > chunks, and lastly a dng tree, which is all the dng files in DVD sized > chunks. [...] > I think the dvd tree currently has 38 dvds indexed. And you manage this all by hand? :) That's a lot of perserverance and attention to detail. I'm lucky if I can squeeze in editing my crap shots away and mirroring to backup disk apart from my day job and everything else going on. -/\/ * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
