Far as I'm aware, nothing changed in this regard with the *ist DS up to the last firmware.
Best solution is to not rely upon the in-camera numbering to always produce unique file names. It's easy for the camera to get thrown off by what's on the card. I download files into folders organized by "YYYYMMDD-event" names to prevent name collisions. Another scheme is to use a utility when downloading that renames the files based on some criteria, like perhaps the timestamp of their creation, so that they look like "YYYYMMDDhhmmss.PEF" or something similar. Godfrey On Nov 28, 2007, at 3:04 PM, Igor Roshchin wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I believe I've seen somebody mentioning on this list this problem, > but I couldn't find the thread, so I apologize for bringing > up this question again. > > I've been using "serial number" option in my *ist DS to number the > files. After it created the file IMGP9999.PEF located in DCIM\100, > it started the directory (folder) DCIM\101, and started > writing files named IMGP0001.PEF, ..02.PEF, etc. > (so when I review it in the body, the file number looks like > 101-0001) > However, once I formated the card, it kept the file number, but > the new card had again DCIM\100, instead of DCIM\101 > > While this by itself wouldn't be a big problem by itself > (the file name still doesn't have "100" or "101" in it), > following this fact, the camera didn't realize that IMGP0126.PEF > had actually higher number (101-0126) then IMGP9865.PEF (100-9865), > and when I inserted one older card, and reformated it, the camera > picked up that number and continued from 9866, 9867, etc. > This created a set of duplicated file names from the same trip. > > I have the firmware v. 2.00 > Does anybody know if this was fixed in the later versions? > The Pentaximaging.com website only lists "support for SDHC memory > cards" > being added and improved in 2.01 and 2.02. > > Thanks, > > Igor > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
