File Naming - Nikon D300 User Manual

File Naming

(User's Manual: D300S page 258; D300 page 260)
File naming allows you to control the first three letters of the
file name for each of your images. The default is DSC, but
you can change it to any three alphanumeric characters
provided by the camera.
The camera defaults to using the following
your images:
▪ sRGB color space:
▪ Adobe RGB color space:
According to which
adds an underscore character to the end of the three DSC
characters in sRGB or to the beginning in Adobe RGB, as
shown in Figure
I use this feature on my camera in a special way. Since the
camera can count images in a
continues from 0001 to 9999—see
D300S and d6
personalize my images. The camera cannot count images
higher than 9999. Instead, it rolls back over to 0001 for the
10,000th image.
When I first got my D300, I changed the three default
characters from DSC to 1DY. The "1" tells me how many
times my camera has passed 9999 images, and "DY" are my
initials, thereby helping me protect the copyright of my image
in case it is ever stolen and misused.
DSC_1234
Color space
3-7, image 2.
in the D300—I use
108
_DSC1234
you are using, the camera
File number sequence
Custom setting d7
File naming
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