On 08/01/2010, P. J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > I doubt it. They just tested it with a card that had a shot on it labeled > with a number around 9800+ They probably shot 50-100 shots to test the > camera so you got 9900. > > To set it back use this procedure. > > 1.) Put an take a shot. on a clean sd card. > > 2.) On you PC/MAC/whatever flavor of LINIX/UNIX mount the card and renumber > it to xxxx9999.xxx > > 3.) Put that card back into the camera take a two shots. > > Now all the photos you take will be in the \DCIM\200PENTX directory, but > the new number will be xxxx0001.xxx > > 4.) Take the card back to the computer and get rid of that directory and > make sure there's a file in the 100PENTX directory numbered xxxx53xx.xxx. > Basically one number before the frame you want the counter to start at. > (and yes I ended that sentence badly). > > 5.) Put the card back into the camera an make an exposure. > > At this point your frame counter will be back to where you want it. The > internal counter shutter counter won't agree, but it doesn't agree now most > likely.
That's essentially how I've done it to bring replacement bodies into line with my existing image numbers. Once the new number has been adopted by the camera you can re-enable the memory function and it won't lose track again. -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- 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.
