Navigating to Your Pictures
Pictures are stored in the memory of the camera or on a Picture Card according to a standard agreed upon by many camera manufacturers. This standard allows you to use the Picture Card in different cameras.
The KODAK DC3200 Picture Transfer Software application guides you to your pictures in the memory. However, if you use a card reader to retrieve your pictures on the Picture Card or cannot locate your pictures using the software provided, the following description of the camera file structure may be helpful.
Root level folder is named \DCIM. Each time you turn on the camera or insert a Picture Card, any empty folders within the \DCIM folder are removed.
Typically, all pictures taken with the DC3200 Digital Camera are stored in the \DCIM\100K3200 folder.
Pictures are numbered in the order in which they are taken. The first picture in the \DCIM\100K3200 folder is DCP_0001.JPG.
When you copy pictures to the computer or delete pictures from the memory, the camera uses consecutive numbers for subsequent pictures. For example, if the last picture taken was DCP_0007.JPG, the next picture is DCP_0008.JPG.
When you insert the Picture Card into another DC3200 Digital Camera, the next picture is derived by incrementing either the highest existing picture number, or the highest picture number previously taken by that camera.
Once you take picture DCP_9999.JPG in the \DCIM\100K3200 folder, subsequent pictures appear in a new folder (\DCIM\101K3200) on the Picture Card, beginning with picture DCP_0001.JPG.
If you use the Picture Card in a camera other than the KODAK DC3200 Digital Camera, and that camera manufacturer adheres to this file structure standard, the \DCIM folder will contain a folder named by that camera. Pictures taken with that camera are stored in the folder using the naming conventions established by the manufacturer. For more information, refer to the documentation accompanying that camera.
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