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374 The “Setup” (Toolbox Icon) Menu Settings

9.21 FILE NUMBER
Menu Position MENU  5  File Number

What it Does Specifies whether the camera resets the file numbering
scheme when you change memory cards

Recommended Setting Series

Every time your camera takes a picture, it writes a file to the memory card
named “DSC0xxxx.jpg” (or .arw). This, and the practice of putting these
images into a directory named DCIM/1xxMSDCF, is in accordance with
the DCF industry standard created by JEITA (the Japan Electronics and
Information Technology Industries Association; www.jeita.or.jp) to
encourage interoperability between imaging devices. The last four xxxx’s
in the filename are actually a 4-digit number, and they increase in sequence
for each picture you take. But you almost certainly already knew that.

When you swap out a memory card, the camera can continue to number the
files in the same sequence (“Series”), or reset the counter and start
numbering the files starting with DSC00000.jpg (“Reset”). Notice that
these commands only apply when you insert a fresh memory card – you
can’t, for example, reset the filename counter to zero while a card is still in
the camera.

I personally prefer “Series”, since after I take pictures I tend to move
pictures from one directory to another all the time, and with “Series” each
image has a slightly more unique identifier.

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