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technical => photography => Topic started by: neil h on February 11, 2008, 06:58:58 pm
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Here is one thats doing my nut in
When i take my photos and go to put them on my comuter, the camera or computer seems to just put them on randomly??????????
Any ideas how to get them off in te order they were taken?????
cheers
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Here is one thats doing my nut in
When i take my photos and go to put them on my comuter, the camera or computer seems to just put them on randomly??????????
Any ideas how to get them off in te order they were taken?????
cheers
Its a wild guess, but if your camera uses SD cards (and this probably applies to other solid-state memory) it may be a design feature.
Solid-state memory has a limited read-write capacity. By randomising the area that pictures are written to you preserve the life of your card by not continually writing to the start of the card. When your moving pictures off, it may just start at the start of the device and go through to the end, so it appears that they are coming off in random order.
Just let it sit there and finish, then sort your folder by filename and they'll all be in chronological order.
This is of course pure speculation, and there may be some other feature of your card/OS/card-reader/camera that is causing this.
See this wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_state_memory#Disadvantages) which mentioned the limited life of solid state devices.
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Check what you have your 400D is set to for file storage. You can do continuous numbering, or numbering per session. This may explain things. Make sure you're on continuous.
Are you using Canon utility to download pics with?
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Check what you have your 400D is set to for file storage. You can do continuous numbering, or numbering per session. This may explain things. Make sure you're on continuous.
Are you using Canon utility to download pics with?
Yes i managed to suss out the file storage, some else mentioned that i should use the canon utility, nut with vista it does it all for you thats why i didnt put it on, maye i go try
cheers
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Canon utility is handy in other respects too (eg rotates photos the right way up when saving etc)
Let us know what the result is.
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Canon utility is handy in other respects too (eg rotates photos the right way up when saving etc)
Let us know what the result is.
Sorted, just set the file storage to continuous
Everything works on the vista system, no need for extra software, it even rotates them all without asking
cheers guys
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Cool, glad to be of help.