Canon G3 file names

[robert_roaldi1]

When downloading my jpg's using Zoombrowser (vers 4.6) my files are

sometimes saved as "203_1234.jpg" and sometimes as "IMG_1234.jpg".

This happens in different folders, never in the same folder. I am not

seeing a pattern though. I must be inadvertenly doing something wrong

but I don't know what. Does this happen to others?

[sean de merchant httpw]

Are the numbers sequential? Are you shooting in different camera modes?

 

Try some experiments shooting 5 shots in each mode on the camera and seeing where each set of 5 shots ends up.

 

hope this helps,

 

Sean

[jcuknz]

When I was using my s20 I knew that the camera reset to zero following each download using the USB cable.

 

Just recently I noticed that the numbers are sequential ... two differences, since it doesn't bother me so have not investigated, is that these days I'm using a card reader. The other is that I do not use Zoombrowser but Windows Explorer [works in either W2K or XP] ... so the camera[through zoombrowser] probably has a re-set, whereas Windows Explorer doesn't. the "203-" looks like a folder number like my Panasonic numbers which read nnnxxxx with n being the folder and x the frame/file number.

Hope this two cents helps :-)

[robert_roaldi1]

Yes, the numbers are sequential, and the numbering does not reset to zero when I change cards. I have that option turned off (or on, which ever setting does that.)

 

So, when I first had it and downloaded some pics, they'd be named

 

101_1234.jpg

101_1235.jpg

101_1236.jpg

.

.

.

etc

 

 

Now, I am getting files named as follows,

 

IMG_9579.jpg

IMG_9580.jpg

IMG_9581.jpg

.

.

.

etc

 

As I said, I don't recall doing anything to cause this.

[robert_roaldi1]

I checked over my image history and finally noticed something. The change to using "IMG_" as file naming prefix started in 2004. Every file from 2003 and earlier has the "103_" or "107_" prefix as described in the manual.

 

BTW, the reason I bring this up at all is because I want to go back to the all numbering system.

 

This morning I tried reading the files from the CF card using a card reader, rather than download from camera using Zoombrowser and the files seem to be names that way by the camera.

[phule]

<< As I said, I don't recall doing anything to cause this. >>

 

Did you upgrade your Zoombrowser software perhaps? My guess is that the default install changed at some point and IMG_ becamse the default download name.

[robert_roaldi1]

I have upgraded new Zoombrowser versions a couple of times since buying the camera. But I checked the contents of the CF card using a card reader, not through Zoombrowser, and it's the camera that assings the names with a "IMG_" prefix. What I can't remember is whether I ever upgraded the camera software. I'll check that.

[robert_roaldi1]

MOre info. I should have gotten all of this together for the 1st question.

 

I actually have 2 G3's, one with 1.0.2 firmware and the other with 1.0.1 and they bought upload files with name prefixes "IMG_".