Minolta 7i instruction manual Camera Notes

Image and audio file names begin with “PICT” followed by a four-digit file number and a tif, mrw, jpg, mov, or thm extension. Voice-memo files have a wav extension and the file name corresponds to its image file. The thumbnail images (thm) are used in camera and DiMAGE Viewer software operation.

When a new folder is created, the first three digits in the folder name will be one greater than the largest folder number on the card. When the file number in the image file name exceeds 9,999, a new folder will be created with a number one greater than the greatest folder number on the memory card: e.g. from 100MLT11 to 101MLT11.

The file number on the image file may not correspond to the frame number of the image. As images are deleted in the camera, the frame counter will adjust itself to show the number of images on the card and reassign the frame numbers accordingly. The file numbers on the image files will not change when an image is deleted. When a new image is recorded, it will be assigned a number one greater than the largest file number in the folder. File numbers can be controlled with the file-number- memory function in the custom 1 section of the setup menu (p. 127).

Camera Notes

Image files contain exif tag data. This data includes the time and date the image was recorded as well as the camera settings used. This data can be viewed with the camera or the DiMAGE Viewer software.

If a camera image is opened in a photo-retouching application that does not support Exif tags, and then the image is saved overwriting the original data, the exif tag information is erased. When using software other than the DiMAGE Viewer, always rename the image file to protect the exif tag data.

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