Image Numbers - Controlling

[stduc]

I don't propose to bore you will all the details of how I got to this point, but I made a bit of a discovery this weekend.

A series (and maybe all CANON cameras?) seem to take the next image number as either - From the card if it contains images or internally if it doesn't. So:-
If you have more than 1 CANON camera, take care to empty the card in the camera that took the pictures before putting it in another one. Unless you don't care about image numbers.
If you want to reset your image numbers to other than 1 - empty a card, use your computer to create a DCIM folder, create a sub folder correctly named (see manual for details) and create an image (any image) named IMGxxxx.JPG where xxxx is two numbers before the number you want to start shooting from.

i.e. to start from image 903 create \DCIM\109CANON\IMG0901.JPG. Insert the card and take a picture. Delete all (from the camera menu). The next picture you take will be numbered 903.
There are obviously variations to this procedure - I'll leave you all to discover them for yourselves!

[Matzzzy]

I thought about this a lot, since I got a very high number all of a sudden...it might have been since a friend borrowed my card to use in an older Canon camera...but I wasn't sure.
Now with your solution, I'm quite sure.

Thanks :)

.:Matz:.

[Ikinaa]

I noticed that too that the numbers seem to come from the card too...
I have a Ixus 300, and since june a G3, a total of 3 128MB cards.
When I got the G3, the Ixus was at about 9700
So I formatted one card in the G3 (numbering began at 1) and the other in the Ixus...
When I put the second in the G3 and took the first picture, it had number 97xx.
So even with a formatted card, it still had memory of the number.
So I formatted the card with the G3, reset the counter and it began at 1.
Till now, I haven't repeated the experience, I use one of the 3 cards for the ixus, and 2 for the G3

[atotos]

In my Camera (IXUS400) in the SetUp menu there is a File Number Reset option. If you take 20 pictures, say from 101_100 to 101_119, the download them and erase them from the camera, the next time the series starts again.

Now, if you shoot them the same day as the first set and download them using Zoombrowser ZX, and use a creating folder with shooting date option, so that all the pictures shot on the same day will go in the same folder, you will suddenly find that you have a 101_100_2.JPG and so on.... :O

This happens if you have the File Number Reset option enabled.