File Number Sequence

G button Bsetup menu

When a photograph is taken, the camera names the file by adding 1 to the last file number used. This option controls whether file numbering continues from the last number used when a new folder is created, the memory card is formatted, or a new memory card is inserted in the camera.

Option

Description

 

When a new folder is created, the memory card formatted, or

 

a new memory card inserted in the camera, file numbering

On

continues from the last number used. If a photograph is

taken when the current folder contains a photograph

 

 

numbered 9999, a new folder will be created automatically

 

and file numbering will begin again from 0001.

 

File numbering is reset to 0001 when a new folder is created,

 

the memory card is formatted, or a new memory card is

Off

inserted in the camera. Note that a new folder is created

 

automatically if a photograph is taken when the current

 

folder contains 999 photographs.

 

 

Reset

Resets the file numbering for On to 0001 and creates a new

folder with the next photograph taken.

 

 

 

DFile Number Sequence

If the current folder is numbered 999 and contains either 999 photographs or a photograph numbered 9999, the shutter-release button will be disabled and no further photographs can be taken. Choose Reset for File number sequence and then either format the current memory card or insert a new memory card.

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