shooting with two 5d

[Stefan_Randlkofer]

up to now i was shooting with a 1ds and a 20d, sometimes side by side. now i got a 5d as well and thinking of getting a second one. but how can i distinguish the filenames from the two cameras? i guess it is bound to happen that double namimg will occour. using two different folder number is not really the solution, as this doesn't affect the filename. what to do?

[Peter_White]

If you only shoot raw, you could set one camera to adobe RGB and the other to sRGB. That way the file names will be different by default.

[ShaunOBoyle]

Doing a batch rename is Camera Raw is fast and easy, just make a habit of renaming as soon as the files are copied to the HD in seperate directories.

[Stefan_Randlkofer]

i thought so that there was no other way.

a fantastic and free utility to rename files in all imaginable ways is 'bulk rename utility'

check it out: http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Main_Intro.php

PC only

DIM4 will rename files as it downloads from a card reader. It has a naming option of '%O', which will pick up the "OwnerName" from the exif data. I just tried it with a 20D file.

You could name one 5D-1 and the other 5D-2, or whatever works best for you.

DIM4 is free at http://www.alanlight.com/dim/Dim.htm

John

[NickSpurrier]

You could use DownloaderPro from Breeze Systems. If you use RawShooterPro for raw conversion it has a fairly primitive but useful downloader with a macro substitution and the ability to insert any text into filenames for a download. Or you can just bulk rename the output file in your raw converter.

[Paul_Gardner]

Canon should give us the option in camera of selecting yyyy/MM/DD/HR/MM/SS as a file name.

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