Your photo session has come to an end. Now you want to transfer your pictures from the camera to your computer. So you are plugging the USB cable connecting your camera to your computer, and “Microsoft Scanner and Camera Wizard” is popping up. After following the instructions, you are requested to fill-in a name for the group of pictures you have taken. Naturally, you fill-in a name in accordance of the subject of the pictures, for example “Beach”. At the end of the process, you get a series of pictures named “Beach001.jpg”, “Beach002.jpg” etc… .
Well … that is really wrong! You just lost your pictures counter information. What do I mean? For efficient management and tracking, every picture should have a unique name. What will happen next time you take a picture on the beach? You will end-up with several different pictures with the same “Beach001.jpg” name. Needless to say that it is just a matter of time that one of them will be erased by confusion.
What should you do? Use the internal counter of your camera. Every camera is naming its pictures in the format like “IMG_0001.jpg”. Keep this naming! That way, you will never confuse your pictures. You may want to add some words identifying the picture. That is OK as long as the counter number is still present. So you will have a file name like “Linda_at_the_beach_IMG_0001.jpg” or “IMG_0001_Linda_at_the_beach.jpg”. Please note that on some camera models, the default setting reinitialises the counter every time you are transferring your pictures to the computer. You should change this setting so no reinitialisation of the counter occurs.
Some will ask “what will happen when the 10,000’s picture will be taken?”. At that time, you will add a “1” to the picture number. How? In one of next posts, we will discuss convenient tools on how to do that.
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