According to the 5D manual the creation of a new folder and continuing
there with IMG_001 is the sequence of events caused by a manual reset.
The scenario I described is supposed to be what happens automatically
when the camera is set for "continuous" numbering and that's what forces
the card change.
Chuck Norcutt
Moose wrote:
> On 6/26/2010 5:07 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>> Huh? It didn't just roll back to 1? Hmmm. That's interesting. I
>> just looked back about 20 months to find a rollover and see that
>> the rollover occurred at 13:52 on Oct 9, 2008. That image was
>> called IMG_0001 and the one immediately prior was IMG_9999.
>>
>> It confused me for a moment when I first looked in the folder which
>> is sorted by image number. The first image shown, of course, is
>> IMG_001 and IMG_9999 is at the bottom of the folder display. The
>> previous folder ended with IMG_9979 and gives the appearance of
>> jumping from there to IMG_001 when opening the next folder.
>>
>
> Ah, I see what happened. When it passed the boundary, it created a
> new folder. The original folder, and the one on my other cards, is
> 100EOS5D and the new one is 101EOS5D.
>
> Then, in the same session, I filled up the card, put in another,
> erased all the old images and continued shooting. I guess I should
> have formatted the card, perhaps then the camera would have
> remembered and put in the 101EOS5D folder.
>
> As it was, it appears to have carried on with the numbering from the
> last image that had been recorded on the card, even though it had
> been erased. Ah well, a little diddling has put it right. I
> renumbered everything on HD and CF card. (Bulk Rename Utility makes
> it fast) Used the camera menu to create a new folder, which
> apparently resets the internal camera counter to 0001, selected the
> new folder, moved the highest numbered image to the new folder, took
> a new pic and it was numbered correctly.
>
> Silly business.
>
>> I don't remember it happening but according to the 5D manual the
>> camera will display "FULL" when the image number hits 9999 and will
>> force you to change CF cards.
>>
>
> No, that definitely didn't happen. It just added the new folder and
> went merrily on.
>
> Number Challenged Moose
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