The *ist-D definitely did it. In fact it pretty much had to; with FAT16 formatting of the media cards you could only have a maximum of 512 files in a single folder.
FAT16 had a maximum partition size of 2GB, but that wasn't a problem back in those days; it was only towards to the end of its life that I bought 2GB CF cards to use with my *ist-D (I did have a couple of 1GB microdrives, though - they were about half the price of equivalent capacity solid state cards) I don't know first hand whether the K10D would have done that, but I'd be prepared to bet that it did - it originally released with only support for SD cards, not SDHC (which allowed you to use cards larger than 2GB, and also increased the directory size limit to 65536). I wouldn't expect Pentax to remove the functionality from the internal code - there's very little downside of leaving it there, just in case somebody uses an old sD card. And it's not a limit most people are going to run into, especially if you name your folders by date - few casual shooters will take 500 shots in a day, and if you shoot RAW you're quite likely to run out of space well before you can get to 500 shots (which would typically require well over 2GB on a *ist-D, and even more - over 4GB - on a K10D). Nowadays, with larger-capacity SDHC cards, it's more likely to be observed. With an older camera (such as my K5) I don't like to use cards larger than 16GB; I like to limit the number of eggs that I keep in a single basket. If I ever get a K-3, with the ability to write the images onto two different cards, I'll probably switch to something larger. On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 08:33:27PM -0400, John wrote: > Does this only happen with the K-5? > > I don't remember the *ist-D, K10D, K20D doing that, and I haven't noticed it > with the K-3. > > On 6/22/2015 1:00 PM, Paul wrote: > >FAT32 will allow 65000+ files to a folder...the K-5 creates a new folder > >after 500 image files. > > > >-p > > > >On 6/22/2015 11:12 AM, Larry Colen wrote: > >>Last night I saw the Red Elvises play in Santa Cruz. It was a very fun > >>show, and I ended up taking pictures. I loaded them into lightroom last > >>night, and when I went through them this morning, a whole bunch were > >>missing. Going back and looking, Lightroom had only read the ones out > >>of the 100PENTX directory, not the 101PENTX directory. > >> > >>First of all, this seems to be a bit of a lightroom bug. However, what > >>causes the camera to change from storing photos in one subdirectory to > >>another? Is it when I hit 500 photos? > >> > > > > -- > Science - Questions we may never find answers for. > Religion - Answers we must never question. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
