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Subject: [Leica] M8 Numbering reset... Help!
From: red735i at earthlink.net (Frank Filippone)
Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 09:04:16 -0700

OK. home and images are transferred.  Renumbering of images was accomplished
in LR4.  Easy.

 

Now back to the camera..

 

I followed these instructions..

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1. Set the Picture Number in the menu to "Standard".

2. Format the SD card in camera.

3. Reset the File Number in the menu. It actually says "Reset fold. No",
that is the one you want.

4. Set Picture Number back to "Continuous"

5. Take one image

6. Shut off camera, remove SD card and place in card reader attached to a
computer.

7. Access the image in your Finder or Explorer (Mac or PC); rename the image
number to whatever file number/image number you want. I would suggest
Lyyyxxxx, with "y" being your preferred folder number (See Note Below) and
"x" being the frame number you want to start with. (You are making these
changes to the file name on the card in the card reader.)

 

NOTE

 

If you want to change the first or second digit of the L100 (Lyyy above) in
the file name, like to L200 or 120 or 220, then you have to change the
folder name also.

The directory/folder structure on the card when in a card reader is [Drive
Letter]:\DCIM\100LEICA\. You need to change the 100LEICA to whatever you
want the file number to start with. Like if you want it to be L200xxxx then
you need to rename that folder to 200LEICA. If you want L120 then you need
to change that folder name to 120LEICA. It would look like this [Drive
Letter]:\DCIM\120 or 200LEICA.

 

8. Properly remove card from card reader and return to camera.

9. Turn the camera on and press "Play". The file will now display with newly
renamed folder and file number. (Use "Info" to see this data.)

10. Expose another image to confirm and check file numbers.

11. Format SD card, and you are good to go from that point on.

 

Renamed the image folder to 110LEICA

Changed the frame number to L1102000

Did the rest of what it says.

 

The camera formatted the card with image folder of 999LEICA ( the L110
folder was there as well..) 

And fist image of  L9990001

 

The objective of all this is to have the numbering of images to be
continuous over time ( changing cards does nothing to the sequence.) and to
start with image # 2000

 

What should I be doing?

 

Frank Filippone

Red735i at earthlink.net