Saving images to a specific directory?

[Calis]

Is this possible with the 300D - I have a vague recollection of seeing somthing in the manual about this but I can't find anything now.

What I want to be able to do is have two directories on the CF card and switch between them for saving images?

[PacAce]

Is this possible with the 300D - I have a vague recollection of seeing somthing in the manual about this but I can't find anything now.

What I want to be able to do is have two directories on the CF card and switch between them for saving images?

Unfortunately, the camera decides which directory it's going to place the image files in the CF card. The directory name it crdates and uses is based on the image number that's assigned in the filename.

Just out of curiosity, why do you want to swap between two different directories in the CF card?

[Calis]

I was afraid that was the answer :cry:

The reason is that I've started helping out a photographerat some horse shows and the easiest way to sort the shots is that I shoot one class and we download them into a directory with the same name as the class, I format the card and we do it agin. The snag is that the reason I'm there in the first place is that my wife & daughter are in the show jumping and I want to save those to download on to my own PC later. I had thought that if I could have two directories I could put my 'keepers' in one and we could download the others onto his PC to display and sell.

The other, more time consuming solution, is for me to find all the ones I want at the end and bung 'em back onto a CF to take home.

[Jon]

Do you have time between entries to change cards? Shoot the family on one and the rest of the class on the other? IIRC in jumping, there's only one horse on the course at a time. Now if it were one of the gaiting classes . . .

[neil_r]

Perfect excuse to buy my D60 Phil :lol:

N

[robertwgross]

It certainly sounds like changing memory cards would do the trick.

---Bob Gross---

[Zeke]

Perfect excuse to buy a 10D - two cameras = two directories! :twisted:

[Calis]

good thought on the second card - I would have time to change cards. The snag is I've only got one card :-(

Time to buy another methinks.

[c0ntr0lz]

i'm about to make a trip up to Oklahoma again for another car show and last time i was up there i was deleting pix so i lost some i could have used
but i think this check i'm goin to try and get a gig card
but i would be nice to be able to move your images around on your card

[Jon]

good thought on the second card - I would have time to change cards. The snag is I've only got one card :-(

Time to buy another methinks.

Or two, or three. a 256 MB card would probably handle a round even in raw mode, no question about it in JPEG, and they're pretty cheap now. It does occur to me belatedly that you'd have to wait for the camera to finish writing before changing, which would increase the time you'd need between rounds.

[BDM]

You could use different CF cards as another poster suggested or simply download the whole card to a directory on your PC (say Canon 101 or something like that). Then you can identify the files on the computer hard disk directory and, after creating new, descriptive directories, move selected images to the appropriate newly created directories. Sounds a bit cumbersome but it really is relatively quick.

Bruce