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My recent holiday was my first volume use of digital since converting from film. Perhaps niaively I expected the shots to be recorded on the SD card in the order in which they were shot as they were on film. Having downloaded all shots to my PC I find that images are stored in a somewhat random manner. The 2GB card was initialised before starting the trip so there was plenty of contiguous space. Images are stored JPG and each is around 4.7kb.

I had relied on sequential storage for identification so I made no notes at the time of taking shots.

Is random storage a "feature" of the VLUX-1, or any other Leica digital?

Richard

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My recent holiday was my first volume use of digital since converting from film. Perhaps niaively I expected the shots to be recorded on the SD card in the order in which they were shot as they were on film. Having downloaded all shots to my PC I find that images are stored in a somewhat random manner. The 2GB card was initialised before starting the trip so there was plenty of contiguous space. Images are stored JPG and each is around 4.7kb.

I had relied on sequential storage for identification so I made no notes at the time of taking shots.

Is random storage a "feature" of the VLUX-1, or any other Leica digital?

Richard

 

Regardless of how the SD card stored them (and I've never noticed them being out of sequence on the card), can't you sort them on your mac/pc by capture date and time? Assuming you have the date and time set correctly on your VLux, this info is embedded in the exif data. So if you use an image organization software (Aperture, iPhoto, Lightroom, etc.), just sort by capture date and time.

 

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Thanks for all your reassurances. I have been working on this a bit and find that on the VLUX they are in perfect order as I would have expected. What I did to get them on to my PC was to use Windows (camera to PC) software and it has just placed them randomly somehow, giving them wrong sequential file numbers. I have tried again and got a completely different order!

Now reverted to PS and everything loaded perfectly by sequential date and time.....can't you tell I am new at digital!

Grateful for your input.

Richard

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Thanks for all your reassurances. I have been working on this a bit and find that on the VLUX they are in perfect order as I would have expected. What I did to get them on to my PC was to use Windows (camera to PC) software and it has just placed them randomly somehow, giving them wrong sequential file numbers. I have tried again and got a completely different order!

Now reverted to PS and everything loaded perfectly by sequential date and time.....can't you tell I am new at digital!

Grateful for your input.

Richard

 

 

Bloody Bill Gates!

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