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Thom Hogan’s Complete Guide to the Nikon D300
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b.
Use the center of the Direction pad to enter the
highlighted letter at the highlighted position in the
lower box (black letters on white background).
c.
Use the Thumbnail button plus the Direction pad
keys to move the cursor (highlighted letter)
between the three letter positions in the lower box.
d.
When you’re done entering your selection, press
the
OK
button.
Because the D300 doesn’t provide very many options with
file names, you need to develop a discipline in moving
images from the camera to your computer. If you don’t, you’ll
end up with hundreds, perhaps thousands, of image files that
have nothing else to distinguish them than a four digit number
(and, of course, if you get to the tens of thousands, you’re
going to have duplicate file names).
Nikon Transfer, as well a growing number of third party
programs (e.g. Adobe Lightroom, Photo Mechanic, and so
on), allow you to automatically transfer files from camera (or
storage card in a card reader) to the computer with a
renaming scheme of your own choosing (e.g. copy
DSC_0001.JPG
to
PhillyzooApril001.JPG
,
DSC_0002.JPG
to
PhillyzooApril002.JPG
, etc.). Other programs allow you to
rename files once transferred (even Photoshop CS3 has decent
renaming capabilities).
I suggest you do the following:
1.
Leave the default folder name intact on your D300.
While you can create and name folders and move
between them, capturing some images in one folder,
some in another, etc., this can get confusing in
practice
64
. If you need to organize images as you
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I think the primary reason most users change folder names is to distinguish between
multiple cameras, but I’d argue the
Image comment
or the
File naming
options are
better places to do this, as the information stays with the images.
