On Monday 10 January 2005 13:48, Rob Studdert wrote: FJW> On 9 Jan 2005 at 11:53, Bruce Dayton wrote: FJW> FJW> > I follow about the same practice as you. Along with that, I charge FJW> > and put in a fresh set before each session that I would be shooting. FJW> > Session could be a walkabout, a portrait session, a wedding, an event FJW> > - whatever. I don't have any quirky problems following this practice. FJW> FJW> This is my practice too, though I did get caught the other night. I ventured FJW> out with used batteries in my *ist D and a spare set in case they ran out FJW> (which they did). I didn't see any of the low battery warning signs as I was FJW> working in the dark with the camera over my head for a lot of the shots so it FJW> just stopped working. FJW> FJW> Fortunately I changed my memory card and batteries at the same time but because FJW> since the camera hadn't been switched off the new card started writing files FJW> with duplicate file names (starting from the number when the camera was FJW> originally switched on). This has happened to me before and it's a PITA, I'm FJW> just lucky I changed cards as I suspect it would have over written the old FJW> files. FJW> FJW> FJW> Rob Studdert I also noticed this, when my *ist D ran out of juice I put fresh batteries in as well as downloaded the images and removed those from the card. The camera started with the numbers of the downloaded shots again. I guess the number gets written into some camera memory when you switch off the camera, rather then after taking the shot.
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