Thank you everyone for your advice. Answers interspersed below but not really interesting I s'pose Cheers Ecke
2010/4/3 David Parsons <[email protected]>: > > a) What software are you using? I use Lightroom, and it will do a > rename of the files on import. I wil get a teacher's version of LR3 for my birthday in June. Right now I use robocopy/xxcopy to import and AntRenamer to rename which works fine for me. Good to know LR3 will do that trick. > b) Is your camera set to continuous filenames, or to reset. On my > K100DS, when I switch cards, it keeps track with no problems (I have > mine set to continuous). Thanks David, I would think it would be set to continuous but I can't find that setting so I'll RTFM tonite +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2010/4/3 John Sessoms <[email protected]>: > >> a) is there a tool that will 1. move images from card to hdd and 2. >> rename them as it goes along and 3. divide jpeg and dng into separate >> folder trees? > > You should be able to do it fairly easily with a Mark 1 eyeball & Adobe > Bridge. Haven't looked, but you can probably do it with Irfanview. Thanks John, I guess I'll wait for LR which is only 2 months and a week away =) >> b) are K20D K-x and K-7 just as dumb in that respect? > > Doesn't seem to me like this is really the programmer's fault. Could always be Layer 8 of course. If so, I will gladly stand corrected. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2010/4/3 Igor Roshchin <[email protected]>: > > Ecke, > > I haven't used it for a while, but "FastStone Image Viewer" > (which is a free program), - was rather good about renaming files > as a batch. > Make sure you have the file name set in the menu to be "continuous" > instead of "Reset". I've never head a problem like you described > with the "continuous" set - neither in istDS, nor in K-7 or K-x. > > The only time I had problems related to duplicates with *istDS is when the > number wrapped around 9999 back to 0001. > Actually, in that case it started writing to a folder with > a different name, with an incremented folder number, but then upon > changing the cart, - it forgot that it has to write it to a > different folder name, and started the count from 1. Thanks Igor for the advice! I have folder names set to "by date" resulting in rather unambiguous folder names 100-mmdd thru 1xx-mmdd; works fine for my. When I go through more than one card in a day, it starts over at 100 again which is perfectly fine as long as the file count remains continuous. This is how I almost lost those 40 files because my batches won't ask. But it sounds like there can be a solution =) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2010/4/3 Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]>: > I have Lightroom rename all files on import in the pattern > YYMMDD-[numeric portion of camera file name] or YYMMDD-[four digit > sequence] depending upon the shoot requirements. Original camera file > names aren't all that important. I don't segregate JPEGs from RAWs ... > well, I don't usually create RAW+JPEG except on one of my cameras when > there is no other option (you can't turn JPEGs off), there's no point > to it. > > Actually, a more complete discussion of my file naming and > organizational scheme is available at > http://www.gdgphoto.com/articles see article 07 Thanks Godfrey I'll read up on that -- 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.
