JimBart wrote:
How do each of you keep track of your individual photos.
I have a Nikon 7100 and just hit DSC 9999 my next shot reverted back to DSC0001 not DSC10001
How can I continue to shoot DSC file name and automatically keep the numbers increasing instead of rolling over.
If I change the DSC file name does it do anything to the camera settings
Thanks for your input.
(1) as noted several times above, you can't get the camera to number past 9999. The naming is hard wired into the system so if you hit 9999 the next image will be 0001. However, many, if not most, cameras have folders that will increment so if you are shooting in folder 101 and reach 9999, the next shot will be 0001 in folder 102. The only problem is that the folders are not necessarily carried over to your computer when downloading.
(2) In my opinion, the camera's file names are useless. They mean nothing. The best thing to do is to rename the files when you download them to your computer. You can give them a meaningful name that will tell you at a glance what the photo is about, or you can give them a date and time, which will guarantee that no two shots will have the same name, or you can do both.
(3) In the end, it will depend on how you organize your images. If you just put them in folders, the names don't really mean that much, but if several shots in the "Family" folder have the same file name you will have a problem. Adding date and time helps here. If you subdivide the "Family" folder into subfolders by date that would also help. If you use a database for organization, such as Lightroom, the file names are irrelevant. You can find images by keywords. In that case you can organize your folders by date, then any duplicate file names will be in different folders.
Since you asked how we do it, I use a program, Downloader Pro, to download the files from the card to my computer. I can give the program a text string, which it will use to define a file name, also adding the date and time. The program then places the files in a folder with that same name. I sometimes use several different cameras for a shoot, so as long as the cameras' clocks are synchronized, all the files will have distinctive names. I can't handle two cameras at exactly the same time. The date and time are added in the form YYYYMMDD HHMMSSss (SS are seconds and ss are hundredths of a second, which will handle cameras that take several frames per second). That format will sort both numerically and chronologically the same.
More details than you probably want to know at
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/user-page?upnum=1595