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Subject: [Leica] M8 Picture numbering
From: lluisripollquerol at gmail.com (Lluis Ripoll Querol)
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 02:45:43 +0100
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Hi Geoff,

The procedure has worked perfectly, I've already changed the serial No.

Thank you very much again!

Cheers
Lluis



El 06/03/2010, a las 23:57, Geoff Hopkinson escribi?:

> A couple of people were interested so I'll post to the list. I found  
> the
> original post where this was on the L Camera Forum by a member called
> 'shootist'
>
> "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.
>
> One thing I think you are doing wrong is DELETING the images from  
> the card
> after transfer. Could be you are deleting evrything on the card, the  
> DCIM
> and the L100xxxx folders.
> Try just formatting the card in the camera after you transfer the  
> files from
> it, Don't delete them on the computer.
> I just got a brand new M8 as a replacement and have updated the  
> firmware to
> V2. I then stuck a card in it that had one image on it from the old  
> camera,
> numbered something like 4984. Viewed the file on the cameras LCD, took
> another shot, actually 2 shots, and viewed them on the LCD,  
> formatted that
> card in that camera and numbering has continued from that count.  
> Image count
> now reads L200(I've changed my black M8 to start numbering at  
> L200)49?? and
> shutter actuation count reads somewhere just over 100.
> This image count resetting has been around for awhile and is not new  
> to V2
> FW. It just might be you have to go through all the steps listed  
> above to
> get it to stop."
>
> Cheers
> Geoff
> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
>
>
> On 7 March 2010 08:47, Tarek Charara <tcharara at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> Geoff,
>>
>> I would like to know about the procedure too!
>>
>> Thank you very much!!
>>
>> All the best from the south of France!
>>
>> Tarek
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------
>> Tarek Charara
>> <http://www.pix-that-stimulate.com>
>>
>> NO ARCHIVE
>>
>>
>>
>> Le 6 mars 10 ? 23:31, Geoff Hopkinson a ?crit :
>>
>>
>> Lluis I will send you the exact procedure. You can set the camera  
>> to start
>>> from any frame number that you want.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Geoff
>>> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
>>>
>>>
>>> On 7 March 2010 08:26, Lluis Ripoll Querol <lluisripollquerol at 
>>> gmail.com
>>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I realized that picture numbering was starting at a lower number  
>>> than the
>>>> last I had before to send my camera to Solms, I was thinking that  
>>>> the
>>>> option
>>>> of "Set back" allows the possibility to change  the last picture  
>>>> No., but
>>>> I
>>>> see that the camera has started again with No. 1
>>>>
>>>> Can someone give me some help?, or maybe I've lost for ever the  
>>>> numbering
>>>> I
>>>> had before...., is taht I think...
>>>>
>>>> Thank you in advance!
>>>>
>>>> Saludos
>>>> Lluis
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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