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goes as high as
999
; the next five characters indicate the
camera maker and model. Usually Nikon uses the first two
to indicate that this is a Nikon Camera (
NC
) and the final
three characters indicate the type of camera that created
the folder (
D80
). But not always.
Remember, if you move a CompactFlash card between two
different camera types, each will create an appropriate folder
name under the
DCIM
folder! And each camera usually won’t
deal with the images already on the card from another
camera. However, if you
format
the card, you
will
remove
those other folders.
Short of doing a complete card format, you won’t be able to
remove a D70 folder that has images in it using your D300.
And, of course, if you perform a format on the D300 you may
be
removing
folders created by other cameras even if that’s
not what you want (this is one of the reasons why I’m a never-
swap-cards-between-cameras guy).
Other pitfalls occur with multiple cameras, too. Remember
that three-digit number? If your D100 is set to use a folder
named
145ND100
, then if you take that card out of the D100
and put it into your D300 and do something that triggers a
new folder creation, the number for the D300’s folder will be
incremented to one past what the D100 was using (i.e.
146ND300
in the example).
Yet another problem to watch for: if you have multiple folders
on a card, the D300 uses the highest number it can find,
regardless of whether that was from a D300 or another
camera. Okay, it’s a little subtler than that: images are saved
into the folder name using the highest three-digit prefix
number
unless
you’ve told it to do otherwise by using the
Active folder
option in the SHOOTING menu.
The D300 allows you to do three things with folders:
• Select an active folder from existing folders
• Create a new folder
