Reset CF Image Counter to Zero for Five Cards Used in 5D MkII

[havanai]

<p>I am on vacation and do not have my Canon 5D MkII manual with me. I am carrying five CF cards with me. Is there a function in the camera with which I can re-set the image number, the internal counter, to set the number to zero on all five cards? <br>

The way I have the camera set now, when I put in a new card, the camera’s image-counter starts counting from the higher of a) the number last used in the camera or b) the last image-number on the new card I just inserted. I’ve shot the last 2,000 images with the same card and just shot my 10,038^th image with this camera. So the counter went to 0038. But if I put one of my other cards in the camera, if the last image I shot with that one was 4072, the camera will number the next image 4073. I want to set the counter on all for cards at zero so I can know when the camera hits it 20,000^th image. I hope this is comprehensible.</p>

[William Kahn]

<p>Kurt, just open the menu, then select the first wrench on the left in the tool options, then the File Numbering option, and Manual Reset. I always leave mine on Auto Reset.</p>

[havanai]

<p>William, Thanks a lot. This enabled me to do exactly what I wanted to do. Turns out my selection is Continuous. But, after putting each of the five cards in, I switched each of my to Manual Reset. Then I went to Select Folder to accomplish the reset. After doing all five cards, I switched back to Continous, shot image 0001 with card A, image 0002 with Card B, image 0003 with Card C, etc.<br>

Funny thing is, I entered the same question to Canon's official support. Good news and bad news: Good news is that the replied pretty promptly. Bad news is they told me I could not do what I wanted to do. Not possible they said. I posed my question to them with the exact same text I entered above, here at photo.net. Glad you had a better answer than they did. Thanks again.<br>

Kurt</p>

[havanai]

<p>William, Thanks a lot. This enabled me to do exactly what I wanted to do. Turns out my selection is Continuous. But, after putting each of the five cards in, I switched each of my to Manual Reset. Then I went to Select Folder to accomplish the reset. After doing all five cards, I switched back to Continous, shot image 0001 with card A, image 0002 with Card B, image 0003 with Card C, etc.<br>

Funny thing is, I entered the same question to Canon's official support. Good news and bad news: Good news is that the replied pretty promptly. Bad news is they told me I could not do what I wanted to do. Not possible they said. I posed my question to them with the exact same text I entered above, here at photo.net. Glad you had a better answer than they did. Thanks again.<br>

Kurt</p>

[William Kahn]

<p>Glad it worked for you, Kurt, and thanks for the feedback...</p>

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