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D3 exposure counter confusionWith two 32Gb CF Cards

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Posted by Robert: Mon Jun 20th, 2016 05:24

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First heavy (prolonged?) use of D3 away from home.

Formatted both cards in camera before use. Camera set for second card to accept overflow when first card is full.

The exposure counter in top window apparently not showing all exposures. I now realise it only counts to 999, then starts a new folder. I had three folders on card 1, first two with 999 image files (NEF), then on card 2 the remainder, about another 100 image files.

It seems the 32Gb card can store about 2,750 NEF image files from the D3. I had expected about 1.1K which it seemed to indicate when I formatted the cards.

Further complicating things the exposure number displayed with the image is 'per folder' not 'per card'.

This confused the hell out of me, I thought I had taken about 1700 exposures but in fact I had taken 2700. I didn't see the 999 in the second folder, because I didn't realise there were three folders.

I know I could/should have off loaded the images into my Laptop but I have enough gear to manage with the cameras, keeping them secure at a race meeting is a challenge. Generally it seems pretty reasonable, no incidents of theft despite vastly expensive gear lying about, but I can't afford to loose anything, so I tend only to take what is essential.

One young lad had a full frame Sony body with a Pele case FULL of fast Canon lenses and stuff. He just left the case at the paddock and wandered off for a few hours with the Sony camera and a Canon 200-400 f2.8 sat in a tripod, I was petrified it would get knocked over in the busy paddock enclosure but he seems totally unconcerned.

Attachment: D3 Folder Structure.jpg (Downloaded 13 times)

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Posted by jk: Mon Jun 20th, 2016 13:14

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Yes you have it figured out.
I usually have a laptop or some device (PhotoBank from Amazon UK) that I can download to in my camera case.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ex-Pro%C2%AE-Picture-Drive-EX205KB-Storage/dp/B00OFVNL5Q/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1466442966&sr=8-2&keywords=Data+Image+Photo+Bank+Ex-Pro

The PhotoBank is cheap and very useful as it does not require a laptop and can download the contents of a CF, SD, MMC card to its HDD.

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