Thanks a bunch, this trick worked. I was thrown at first, I forgot to look in the new directory.
On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 11:41:34AM -0400, P. J. Alling wrote: > You can't use a number lower than the current number and it ignores any > number that's beyond 4 digits. When the number rolls over it will put > all the new 0001 -> 9999 numbered frames into a new folder labeled > 200PENTX. To set the the camera to begin numbering from 5288, you first > need to get the camera to roll over. To do that since you are at 9709 > you should rename a file to have the last four digits of 9999, in a > 100PENTX directory, make one exposure, now you will have a frame called > xxxx0001 in the afore mentioned 200PENTX directory remove the card > rename that file to xxxx5288 replace it and make one exposure. That > will be named xxxx5289. Take that card out of the camera put in a new > card format that in the camera you next exposure will be xxxx5290 in the > 100PENTX directory. > > Larry Colen wrote: > >On my vacation, when I put a card from my K100 into my K20, it caused > >the K20 to skip 4420 numbers in the frame numbering sequence. Now that > >the frame numbers are reaching 9709, I want to renumber them to 5289, > >and change the base filename form lrc1 to lrc2. I tried taking an > >image on the card and changing it's name from lrc19709.pef to > >lrc25289.pef, but the next frame was 9710. > > > >It seems to use exif rather than frame name. > > > >I tried poking through the menus, but couldn't find what I was looking > >for. How do you change the numbers the files are being named at? > > > > > > > -- > > > The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or > drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a > damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is > not a free man any more than a dog. > > --G. K. Chesterton > > > -- > 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 first step is learning to take great photos, the second step is learning to throw away ones that are merely good. Larry Colen [email protected] http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- 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.
