Resetting Counter in M8

[photolandscape]

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I just bought a second M8, used this time. I can't find my manual at the moment, but wondered how one goes about resetting the counter. I'd like to set it in such a way that I won't have the image numbers from the two bodies overlapping. Any ideas on how one does this?

[Skippy Sanchez]

reset the folder # in one of them. i have mine set, respectively, as "L101xxxxx" and "L102xxxxx." this way they'll download into the same folder without duplicate #s.

 

BTW, you can download the manual from leica.

[wparsonsgisnet]

Steve, to change the folder number, I would format a fresh card on the new M8, then change the folder number from the computer while the card is in the card reader.

 

Set the M8 so that it numbers consecutively. Take a test picture with the new M8 to make sure that the pix start with L10x00001, where 10x is the name of the folder as you changed it. Verify at the computer, with this card in the reader, that the number of the image does indeed start with the desired folder number.

 

I believe that if you use a card in the "wrong" camera, that newly taken images will bear the number of the folder on the SD card -- thus incorrectly reflecting the camera that you used. This might mess up the scheme, as well.

[Shootist]

reset the folder # in one of them. i have mine set, respectively, as "L101xxxxx" and "L102xxxxx." this way they'll download into the same folder without duplicate #s.

 

BTW, you can download the manual from leica.

Skippy that may be a bad idea, IE to have them 1 digit apart. After you take 10,000 images with the one set to L101 it will change to L102. It's a better idea to label them something like L10x and L20x. That way you would need to take 1,000,000 images with the lower # camera before it turns over to what higher number is.

[Guest tummydoc]

Be careful of one thing, on a related issue: the Leica FAQ (the official one, not the hodge-podge on that private website) says that to avoid the M8 glitch where it re-sets the file numbering to 1 each time a card is inserted despite the camera set to "Continuously", to put the card in the computer and re-format it from FAT32 to FAT. BEWARE. I tried that and it worked ok on a couple of cards, but on the third (same type, on the accepted list) when I took a shot the red light kept blinking and nothing other than taking out the battery would stop it. Fortunately the camera seems to be ok afterward.

 

Their other suggestion is to leave the camera "On" whilst changing cards...which ellicits a stern warning from the camera that the bottom cover has been removed, but does not seem to harm anything.