Hi Van:
It's not a question of where you put the images. It's more of an issue for those who use a Digital Asset Management program, where the folders essentially go away when browsing collections of images, or for those who just put all their photos in one folder. It's just better not having file names that repeat. The main purpose of my suggestion is to help the average user who won't rename files, but I think it can help anyone, without a whole lot of work on the part of digital camera manufacturers (especially if they use the 8 character system or something similar to what I propose in this article):
> http://imagingbuffet.com/2010/09/14/response-to-comments-on-my-recent-open-letter-on-file-naming/
>
All the best,
Andrew
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On Sep 16, 2010, at 1:28 PM, G. Armour Van Horn wrote:
> Why would you need to change the prefix? You certainly aren't going to
> be putting every file over your entire career into a single folder,
> you'd normally be filing them by shoot or by date. It's only when you
> start taking ten thousand pictures per day or per shoot that you'd have
> to worry about duplicates.
>
> Van
>
> On 16/09/2010 05:37, Andrew Darlow wrote:
> > Hi Larry:
> >
> > Having the ability to add a prefix is a great option. The only problem with the system you've chosen is that you need to remember to change the 0 to 1, 2,3,4, 5, then 8 after each 9999 photos.
> >
> > The system I came up with avoids that, while allowing you to have a different letter or number for different cameras.
> >
> > After hearing some people's comments about 8 characters being an unchangeable part of the standard file naming protocol, I wrote this article outlining a way to make the system work in 8 characters:
> >
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