On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 05:23:38PM -0600, William Robb wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Paul Stenquist" > Subject: Re: Battery life on K10D, counter reset ? > > > >I never erase a card before putting it in the camera. I always just > > reformat the full card in camera. > > That has been my habit as well. I expect the filename conflict happenned > when the grip battery went south and the camera switched over to the in-body > battery. I wouldn't have noticed except that I tried to dump three cards > into one directory on my computer later, and got a filename conflict at that > time. > Scary, if it is possible for this to happen, is it also possible that the > camera might overwrite it's own files while shooting? Or would it start a > new directory on the card? > > William Robb
It's hard to say, but I rather doubt it would over-write images; I think the camera checks a card first, and ensures that the next image number it will use is larger than any image numbers it finds on the card. The only way I can think of for the camera to start re-using numbers is if the battery died (so the internal frame count was lost), and the card that was in the camera when a fresh battery was installed (or the first card that was insrted after the battery change) was an older card that still had images on it. In that situation the camera would reset the internal frame count to one more than the highest image number that it found on the card; it would have no way of knowing that there was some other card containing higher-numbered images. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
