Changing Nikon file naming

[billz]

epaul6 asked this question in the Advanced Elements thread (http://www.elementsvillage.com/forums/showthread.php?p=419113#post419113) and I thought I'd re-ask it down here.

My trusty D70 just turned over 10,000 clicks. The problem is that the camera's numbering system stops at 9,999. New images are created in a new folder, but the numbers appear to start over. So--- is that going to be an issue in the Organizer? Will the program see the new images as dups? I guess I could rename the images as I did with the first two as I was anticipating a problem. I'm just curious if anyone else has faced this same issue and what they did about it.

For reasons other than the organizer I've been wondering the same thing about my D80 that recently turned over 10K clicks.

Is there a way to change the way a camera assigns a file name to an image?? Thanks for any insight.

Bill

[Sepiana]

. . .Is there a way to change the way a camera assigns a file name to an image?? Thanks for any insight.

Bill


Hi, Bill

I bet I am the last person you expected to try to answer your question -- I'm not an expert on this. However, some time ago, I read something to the effect that one could go to Custom Settings and change the first three letters in the filename. If my memory doesn't fail me, I believe the article -- possibly online --referred to a Nikon camera.

[billz]

Thanks Sepiana ... so there's hope!! I appreciate your response and will keep looking.

Bill

[Byron Gale]

Bill,

I still have a way to go before I roll over the odometer on my D80, so I'll be watching this thread, as well.

Byron

[Danudin]

Have my D70s in hand and the only equitable menu item I can see is under the setup menu under ile No. Seq which has Off, On and reset as options. Folders can be renamed but I don't know if that gives a different three letter sequence number. will try to find out and get back.
Ron


No, Just tried a new folder dut the file was still a DSC-**** number.

I also need an answer to this quandry!

[billz]

Hey Ron -

Nope, changing the folder had no impact on the file naming at all. Thanks for the thought though.

Byron - I'm clicking faster than you are huh??;)

Bill

[genevh]

I have a Nikon D70s and don't see where the files can be renamed within the camera. One thing that I do is have the import function insert the date the picture was taken in the file name. My D70s has rolled over once and will soon do it again. :)

[Danudin]

Have asked the question on Photocamel forum and will report any answer, the urgency of this is that I have TWO D70s and thereby double the problem of the rest of you due to duplicity, maybe I will have to do a rethink on downloading and do a batch filename change, any ideas if that would work?

PLEASE!!

Ron

Gene mid post revelation, is that within PSE importing?

[TonyW]

Not sure that it's a problem - I'm sure the Organizer treats files of the same name as different files as long as they are in different folders. So when the camera rolls over just start a new folder.

Tony

[Danudin]

Hopefully you are right Tony and in a way it makes sense as when I took delivery of my second camera I reset the sequence which I assume sets it back to 0,000 or what ever and in reality I have not had problems although I use both cameras randomly and on the newer camera have already reached 1071 NEF files, so duplication must have already occurred .

Thanks Ron

[Derry]

Ron, had this happen way back when I had a Nikon 990 doing a lot of bird digiscoping,, it rolled over and started again and back then I had Elements (no number assigned then, just Elements) and there was no problem in separate folders,,

Derry

[Sepiana]

Hi, Bill,

Just to make sure I was not dellusional or my aging brain was failing, I searched for the article I mentioned re filename changing. It's for a Nixon D2X. Scroll down to Key Camera Settings, where it says:

File Naming - This option allows you to set the first three letters of the image filenames. We went with our company initials GSI.
Here is the link (http://www.goldenstateimages.com/digital_workflow.htm).

[Byron Gale]

...Nixon D2X...OK. I suspect that the feature is not available at the price tier which includes the D80... not that it would have cost them anything to include it!

[Danudin]

Can't speak for anyone else, but for me it was a case of not even understanding the problem! The file numbers are not important in them selves it is how they they are used that IS IMPORTANT!

From what I have read here and from the answers I got on the Photocamel forum I now see that it is all connected to the fact that MY WORKFLOW is non existent!

I started with bad habits that need to be changed I was just importing from the camera without thought of what happens after that, so this thread has been worth it's weight in gold for what I have learned. Now I need to implement the new broom and get it to sweep up a real workflow for me.

One hassle that I still have is that a lot of the shots I take are in reality "Throwaways" in so far as I am using my camera to learn about photography and a lot of shots are not of intrinsic interest just for learning so I ask if there is a function within PSE% to do mass renaming after importing images?

Thanks Ron

[TonyW]

One hassle that I still have is that a lot of the shots I take are in reality "Throwaways" in so far as I am using my camera to learn about photography and a lot of shots are not of intrinsic interest just for learning so I ask if there is a function within PSE% to do mass renaming after importing images?

Thanks Ron

I call that delete - no need to rename just delete them all (from both the organizer and the hard drive) - no sense in keeping throwaways - just throw them away ... actually I do most of that in camera so they never even get imported.

Tony

[Danudin]

I call that delete - no need to rename just delete them all (from both the organizer and the hard drive) - no sense in keeping throwaways - just throw them away ... actually I do most of that in camera so they never even get imported.

Tony

Must be my eyesight Tony but only really bad shots are easy enough to see in the LCD things like fine focus escape me even zoomed in so they must wait until I have imported then to decide and infact some that are out of focus are sometimes usable. IE My shot of the moon with a Bat shape imposed on it, neither one is in clear focus but both are discernible there by the photo stays.

On a number of occasions as this is still very new to me I need to study the shots to determine which settings have achieved a specific effect so that I can learn. I am not doing a definitive study or anything but am just trying to get a feel of things and it is working to some extent because regularly now I have a gut feeling on settings and get good results from it.

And once I have no use for a throwaway I do delete it, (Hopefully that day - but not always) but it still leaves me with a largish number of DSC**** files that would benefit from renaming and I just thought that a sort of batch rename ould be available.

Thanks Heaps

Ron