On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 10:59:41AM -0400, Doug Franklin wrote: > Mark Cassino wrote: > > > Jens Bladt wrote: > >> Mark , did you try to store a card with recordings from several days? > > > My K10D just dumps everything into one folder, so I never tried to > > download multiple folders into the X's Drive. The only time I've seen > > multiple folders on a card is when the counter "turns over" and restarts > > at 0001 - that was with the *ist-D, I assume the K10D does the same (I > > haven't hit 10,000 exposures yet.) > > The key was Jens' comment "from several days". On my K10D, starting > with an empty card, it puts all shots from the first day in the 100PENTX > folder (or something like that). If I don't fill the card that first > day, then subsequent days will go into separate folders on the memory > card. I haven't tried loading one of those cards into my low-buck image > tank, but it's nothing fancy, just a $30 shell I popped a 40GB notebook > drive into.
I don't believe it's a date-related thing. The DCIM specifications put a limit of around 500 files (512?) that can be stored in a single folder. The K10D (and, I'm sure, earlier cameras) will switch to a new folder if the current folder becomes full. That's easy enough to do now, if you are shooting JPEGs; at an average size of somewhere around 3MB it's easy to get more than 500 images on a 2GB card. Getting more than 500 RAW files is a little harder, but it would be possible with 8GB SDHC cards (if you are using PEFs; 500 DNG files would need even larger cards). It is possible to set up the K10D to use date-related folder names, rather than the 100PENTX, 101PENTX, ... progression, but it's simple to spot that - the folder names are obviously dates. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
