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Hi Conrad, thanks for the input. I deliberately do not use dates at all as I prefer to use subject and geographical location which makes more sense to me. Putting a date in the file name would simply make me ask where was I on 3rd December 1888? :) In addition, I still have a very large amount of film images to scan some going back many years so I have to look up my 'physical' records aka Excel spreadsheet!

Hi Ed thanks for the input. The cameras(s) were medium format film cameras, Mamiya mainly, Nikon DSLR (D200/D700). The film images were scanned using an Epson 3870 flat bed scanner. I suspect it might be related to moving from Windows OS to Apple IOS?

Thanks Glen for that information I suspected it was something like that. What I don't understand is why the information is appended to the file name? If anyone can enlighten me I would be obliged.

Can anyone explain the meaning of the following following a filename? (2017 02 08 10 37 32 UTC).TIF. I guess that it is a astronomical date followed by .TIF indication Tagged Image Format. How has it appeared and what is the significance? I have a number of files now which have a regular file name such as T787.09.66FF.TIF and other duplicate files with the same name and the (2017 02 08 10 37 32 UTC) appended for some reason. I am using my Mac to try and cull a large number of images

I, and a few other members, have cancelled our subscriptions but Photonet took monies out of our accounts anyway. One of the volunteers, Sandy, tried to sort it out for me but got no response from the full time staff member responsible. Photonet are aware of this problem but I have the distinct impression that they are only interested in taking the money, honesty does not enter into it. So, be warned, if you take out a subscription it could be for life and the only way you can around it is have your bank cancel the subscription. This should not be a surprise to anyone as some time ago I complained that Photonet was allowing the sale of fake passports on the site.

I have discovered that the site has withdrawn a subscription despite my terminating it some time ago. Details: date 16 July 2019 transaction fee £0.65 subscription £23.94 bank is M&S Bank and I have already raised a query with them regarding this. Have also again put a stop on the subscription on my account page. I have not been into photography for some time due to ill health. Thanks, Frank

I have ordered the above from Silverprint in London but have just been advised that supplies are so limited that "We were informed by our supplier only yesterday that Kodak themselves have only partially shipped the promised stock quantities to some of their distributors, only about 50% of their commitment has been received by some, resulting in them being unable to fulfil all their orders. One of these “short shipped” distributors is our own supplier" The above refers to the UK. Is it the same in other parts of the world?

Yes, I forgot to mention a shutter release which I often use with a tripod. I like and recall the comment on TLR cameras which I used many years ago, with a neck strap you can get very slow and sharp images. Having said that tripods are not always allowed, such as in museums so learning to keep the camera steady with the appropriate shutter speed is key.

Update: Sorry folks for not geting back to your very helpful comments I really do appreciate your help. However, I recently had a major failure of Windows 10 whcih meant I had to completley uninstall Win 10, re install Win 7 (twice) before I was able to get a basic pc working. In the meantime I had to physically remove two HDD drives from my desktop to use in a docking station on the backup laptop. As you will appreciate, Microsoft are not a well respected name here in Scotland any more. I will be moving to Mac, but in the meantime will have tp persevere with Win 7, which at least works, until I am able to buy the kit I need from Mac. Ed may I ask about your statement "Older versions are activated with Adobe. You can download many older versions from their website and work with technical support to re-install them on a new system, including Mac.". Does this apply to PS5 initially licecnced for Windows? My thanks again to everyone for taking the time to contribute to my learning curve.

A long number of years ago Kodak, remember them, was getting a lot of complaints about heir films being blurry and mounted an investigation. The result was that the biggest culprit wa "camera shake". Either the photographer does not keep the camera still or the the shutter speed does not match the condiions susch as Gary Nakayama states abouve. The cure is fairly simple. If you have a 50mm lens then make sure your shutter speed is no slowwer that 1/50 second, 60mm lens 1/60 second etc etc. My solution which I have used for 30 years is a tripod. I can set a time of 10 minutes and get no fuzzy shots with a tripod. Another option is a monopod.