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 File naming for
your images:
▪ sRGB color space: DSC_1234
▪ Adobe RGB color space: _DSC1234
According to which Color space you are using, the camera
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 3-7, image 2.
I use this feature on my camera in a special way. Since the
camera can count images in a File number sequence that
continues from 0001 to 9999—see Custom setting d7 in the
D300S and d6 in the D300—I use File naming to help me
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.
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