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Exploring file numbering options

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Exploring file numbering options

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When you take a picture, your camera has to give it a name of some kind, and as you have probably already discovered, it tends to give it a name that's mostly numbers. In fact, though, they're sequential numbers. Every time you take a picture, the camera increments its image number. By default, these numbers keep going up until you hit 9999, at which point they roll over to 1, and start over. The images are stored inside a folder on the camera's media card, which is inside of another folder called DCIM. Each folder can hold up to 9999 images. If a folder fills, a new one is created with a sequential number of its own. You can change the numbering scheme, though, so that it resets every time you put in a new card, or create a new folder. So every time you put in a new card, you will get a new numbering scheme. You will also get a new numbering scheme every time you take out your old card, empty it, reformat it, and reinsert it. If you want, you can also reset the numbering manually. In…

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