Don{ald} O. Woodall schreef:

>Hello Shutter Bugs
>
>     I am leaning towards Kris's Sony Mavica suggestion.  The main reason
>is that I can totally avoid using USB; and this
>avoid the drive letter issue.  I don't have many drive letters available. 
>I don't think I have enough drive letters to
>enable me to install a 6-in-1 or an 8-in-1 card reader.
>
>     Now, this leads into:
>
>     Do I want a camera filing to floppy?
>
>     Do I want a camera filing to CD?
>
>     We all know that with a floppy disk, a FAT file system will be used
>and file names will be limited to the 8.3 format.
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On floppy as well as on CD mavica writes to 8.3, such as:



The volume label in drive N is MV_20040708.
The Volume Serial Number is 3F76:0042.
Directory of N:\DCIM\101MSDCF

9-07-04 11:45 2.269.412 0 ---r DSC00464.JPG
9-07-04 11:44 2.181.498 0 ---r DSC00463.JPG
9-07-04 11:44 2.226.225 0 ---r DSC00462.JPG
9-07-04 11:43 2.280.788 0 ---r DSC00461.JPG
9-07-04 11:43 2.019.153 0 ---r DSC00460.JPG
9-07-04 11:42 1.955.228 0 ---r DSC00459.JPG
9-07-04 11:41 2.049.071 0 ---r DSC00458.JPG
9-07-04 11:40 1.942.434 0 ---r DSC00457.JPG
9-07-04 11:39 2.343.803 0 ---r DSC00456.JPG

etc...

You can set the number to begin with, meaning recount from 001 which 
each new media or taking the next number when a new media has been inserted.

Keep in mind too you can leave the image on the media and use the media 
as backup.

>     If the camera is filing to CD:
>
>     Does this enable long file names?
>
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Not sure what you are asking now....

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>>From: "Frank Wochatz" 
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>>JPG Info version 0.91 has been released.
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>>This is a PM tool to read meta informations (comments, EXIF)
>>rom JPGs and write own comments to JPG files.
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Frankly, I don't think you would need this tool at all.


-- 
Groeten uit Gent,

   Kris



 
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