Phil_Hawkes
Established
If, perchance, you are misguided enough to purchase a second R-D1 for your photographic pleasure, then you may wish to harken to my cautionary tale....
For many a month, a young knave wooed and courted young R-D1 and together they produced a multitude of images. The multitude was very multitudinous, but the knave was empowered to keep track of his beloved images courtesy of the whimsical names bestowed upon the images by his mistress. The first image was named EPSN001, the second EPSN002 and so forth, with these images domiciled in a directory called "100EPSON". After the image EPSN9999 was born, his mistress named the next image EPSN0001, but this young image was banished to a new directory "101EPSON" same that the youn knave could distinguish the two images.
Alas, the young knave was so entraced by the love of his first mstress, that the young knave desired and gained a second mistress. This mistress bestowed names in the same fashion as the first mistress, but this was not too disconcerting, since the images of similar name and directory were taken some six months hence, and this could be easily accounted far. For as long as the young knave was wise to keep his mistresses satisfied with separate SD cards, there was harmony in his household.
The knave was typically male in his desire to know the extent of his multitude of images, and the knave quickly understood that the total number of images could be obtained by adding the number of the latest image from each mistress.
Then, one fateful day (or evening as the case may have been), the knave was foolish enough to ask one mistress to share an SD card that had been half filled by the other mistress. This caused the mistress (now containing the card) no end of confusion... how should she name the knave's beloved images!!! Perhaps the card already contained an image of the same name!!! In the ensuing confusion, a new directory was formed, and the mistress began naming her images beginning at EPSN0001.
"Woe is me!!" cried the knave, for no longer was he able to determine the extent of his multitude of images. No amount of knashing of teeth could resolve his inner conflict, and he was resigned to spending the reaminder of his days not knowing how many images he had.
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Now, in plain English...
If you have two R-D1 cameras... then be careful about taking a half-full card from one camera and putting it into the other camera because the other camera will start numbering again from EPSN0001, and ruin your numbering system
Cheers,
Phil
For many a month, a young knave wooed and courted young R-D1 and together they produced a multitude of images. The multitude was very multitudinous, but the knave was empowered to keep track of his beloved images courtesy of the whimsical names bestowed upon the images by his mistress. The first image was named EPSN001, the second EPSN002 and so forth, with these images domiciled in a directory called "100EPSON". After the image EPSN9999 was born, his mistress named the next image EPSN0001, but this young image was banished to a new directory "101EPSON" same that the youn knave could distinguish the two images.
Alas, the young knave was so entraced by the love of his first mstress, that the young knave desired and gained a second mistress. This mistress bestowed names in the same fashion as the first mistress, but this was not too disconcerting, since the images of similar name and directory were taken some six months hence, and this could be easily accounted far. For as long as the young knave was wise to keep his mistresses satisfied with separate SD cards, there was harmony in his household.
The knave was typically male in his desire to know the extent of his multitude of images, and the knave quickly understood that the total number of images could be obtained by adding the number of the latest image from each mistress.
Then, one fateful day (or evening as the case may have been), the knave was foolish enough to ask one mistress to share an SD card that had been half filled by the other mistress. This caused the mistress (now containing the card) no end of confusion... how should she name the knave's beloved images!!! Perhaps the card already contained an image of the same name!!! In the ensuing confusion, a new directory was formed, and the mistress began naming her images beginning at EPSN0001.
"Woe is me!!" cried the knave, for no longer was he able to determine the extent of his multitude of images. No amount of knashing of teeth could resolve his inner conflict, and he was resigned to spending the reaminder of his days not knowing how many images he had.
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Now, in plain English...
If you have two R-D1 cameras... then be careful about taking a half-full card from one camera and putting it into the other camera because the other camera will start numbering again from EPSN0001, and ruin your numbering system
Cheers,
Phil
R
RML
Guest
I'm glad I don't rely on the Epson's number than. I only rely on the time stamp in Windows Explorer to order the shots, after which I rename them with a small tool called Renamer to my own naming system.
I only rely on the time stamp in Windows Explorer to order the shots, after which I rename them with a small tool called Renamer to my own naming system.
JonasYip
Well-known
I think any time you're working with two digitial bodies you can no longer rely on the DSC file name numbering system. Even if the numbering doesn't get reset the two bodies will always be out of sync numbering wise.
In this case you can use numerous renaming tools which can rename the files, for example, with names based on the timestamp in the EXIF info.
Though as you point out in the non-plain English part of the post, you can't just look at the DSC numbering and figure out the shutter actuations anymore...
In this case you can use numerous renaming tools which can rename the files, for example, with names based on the timestamp in the EXIF info.
Though as you point out in the non-plain English part of the post, you can't just look at the DSC numbering and figure out the shutter actuations anymore...