Thanks to all who have responded > > I'm quite certain that when camera companies are desiging their > cameras they > don't have long-term filing in mind. That's not their job, it's yours. >
They could have helped to make this less of a problem, than again they could have only supplied a 3-digit counter, just imagine being told by your favourite camera manufacturer "It's not our problem, it's yours!" > Not using folders, the easiest method of organizing, is kinda > ridiculous if > for no other reason than you will soon wind up with a directory that is so > full of JPGs that it'll take you forever manuever through. How do you > organize your bills or financial papers? Just throw them all in the same > pile on your desk? > A bit presumptuous, Big Mike, aren't we? When I said I don't care for folders I was referring to the in-camera folders and that I'd rather have 5 or even 6-digit counters and give up the in-camera folders. I do organize my bills and financial papers into folders, and I DO organize the images into distinctly named folders too based on each event I shoot, each event gets their own folder and since I have not (yet) shot more than 9,999 images per event, rolling over and have identical file numbers for different images in one event is not a problem (yet) :-) The problem occurs when I pull different images out of different folders to put them into one folder, say for a slide show of multiple airshows or car races within one year, and two or more of the files happen to have the same file names! This has only happened a few times, it's not anything that couldn't be taken care of by just temporarily renaming one of the file with a prefix or postfix, but it would have been much easier had there been a way straight from the camera to reasonably minimize this possibility. As well, even if the selection of images I picked out all had distinct file names, they may be from different cycles of 1-9,999, so they can be out of chronological order when I organize them by their file names, which I suppose I can organize them by their time stamp IF I hadn't modified them at some point which just rendered their time stamp completely meaningless. > Not only do I use folders to store images So do I and anyone with common sense, as explained above. > but I often will go through my > images and append alpha-numeric digits on the end or beginning to keep > things straight. To keep images straight between two different bodies I > typically append the time in an "00.00.00_" format to the beginning of the > filename so that my 1D images get mixed in chronolgically with my 1D.2 > images. The Downloader Pro suggested by Malcolm and Craig looks interesting, so is the DIM mentioned by Lee, or renaming the files by adding a prefix as suggested by Dieter, it's the thought of having to go through an extra step or an extra layer of interface that drives me bunkers. Right now I take the CF card out of the camera, stick it into the laptop, copy the files off the folder into "my pictures" directory, rename the folder to the event and I'm done, doing anything extra to rename the file is fine for people who wanted more of a descriptive file name, but I guess there is no easy way around it with the camera I have right now. Otherwise I love the 1D Mk 2 ! Ken * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
