On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 9:14 AM, keith_w <[email protected]> wrote: > John Francis wrote: >> >> On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 07:11:55PM -0800, keith_w wrote: >>> >>> Oh, and since the image numbers start with IMGP0001.JPG, I know they were >>> the first images ever recorded with that camera. > >> Not necessarily - the camera owner may well have had the camera set >> to restart numbering from IMGP0001 every time a clean card was used. > > Point well taken, John. I hadn't considered that! > I assume that each individual card has it's own index and instructions on > it's identity? Which is to say, all that info is stored on the card itself, > not in the camera? > > Thanks for the education! > > keith whaley
Not even that. There's two ways teh indexing will work. Generally the camera will start at the next file number if there's any files on the card with the appropriate names (ie if there's a IMGP5647 on the card, the camera will number the next shot IMGP5648). If the card is empty the camera can be set to either start at 0001 again or start from the last remembered file number. The latter is the default but it can be screwed up if you stick the empty card in another camera of the same brand, shoot one or more frames then go back to your camera with the no-lnger empty card. My D300 got a 2000 shot jump on the filenumber counter that way. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- 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.
