It's a file naming standard. I guess the various manufactures are sticking to it, though they often seem to violate other standards often enough.
David J Brooks wrote: > On Nov 28, 2007 9:06 PM, Igor Roshchin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Overall, I am surprised why the manufacturers of digital cameras have >> reserved only 9999 unique file names for their cameras (even >> though I understand their desire to stay with 8+3 naming scheme). >> I wish they would allow the first 3 letters to be user-configured, >> and then use 5 digits for serial file numbers. >> This way people with more than one camera from the same manufacturer >> wouldn't have problems with the file name collisions. >> > > It is that way with the D2H and later Nikon cameras. Not sure about > Canon, but probably. > > I can change the first three leters in the file name to match, some > what, my event. This is helpful. Unfortunetly the D1 and D1H do not > offet tyhis, as well as the Pentax ones. > > Dave > >> Igor >> >> >> Wed Nov 28 18:21:49 EST 2007 >> Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >> >> >>> 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 >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> >> > > > > -- The difference between individual intelligence and group intelligence is the difference between Harvard University and the Harvard University football team. -- P. J. O'Roark -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
