Uploading photos from canon camera to PC

A couple of months ago i replaced my canon s45 with canon 710IS

I have been happily using the camera for last couple of months and
everything fine. I must confess that i leave it to my wife to upload
pictures from card to PC and every couple of months i back up photos.

I have noticed that the old photos on PC had format 123_0001.jpg,
123_0002.jpg and the photos taken with new camer a seem to have format
of IMG_0001.jpg, IMG_0002.jpg. I much prefer the first format but
cannot seem to find a way to get pictures to save in that format.

Can anyone help?

Regards

Steve

"Steve F" wrote in message
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A couple of months ago i replaced my canon s45 with canon 710IS

I have been happily using the camera for last couple of months and
everything fine. I must confess that i leave it to my wife to upload
pictures from card to PC and every couple of months i back up photos.

I have noticed that the old photos on PC had format 123_0001.jpg,
123_0002.jpg and the photos taken with new camer a seem to have format
of IMG_0001.jpg, IMG_0002.jpg. I much prefer the first format but
cannot seem to find a way to get pictures to save in that format.

Can anyone help?

Regards

Steve

The slow tedious way is to rename the file once it gets to the computer.
Another way is to use Adobe Bridge.
Another way is to create a batch file to rename all files.
Yet another way is if your camera has a setting to change the naming
convention.
There are probably other methods as well.
Jim

"Steve F" wrote in message
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A couple of months ago i replaced my canon s45 with canon 710IS

I have been happily using the camera for last couple of months and
everything fine. I must confess that i leave it to my wife to upload
pictures from card to PC and every couple of months i back up photos.

I have noticed that the old photos on PC had format 123_0001.jpg,
123_0002.jpg and the photos taken with new camer a seem to have format
of IMG_0001.jpg, IMG_0002.jpg. I much prefer the first format but
cannot seem to find a way to get pictures to save in that format.

Can anyone help?

Regards

Steve


The use of "IMG" would seem to indicate that the images are being renamed by
the downloading program.

Usually cameras use somthing like "DSC" as part of the file name.

Get your lady wife to try copying the images from the Camera to the HDD
without using any program.

Roy G

On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 22:12:51 -0000, Steve F wrote:
: A couple of months ago i replaced my canon s45 with canon 710IS
:
: I have been happily using the camera for last couple of months and
: everything fine. I must confess that i leave it to my wife to upload
: pictures from card to PC and every couple of months i back up photos.
:
: I have noticed that the old photos on PC had format 123_0001.jpg,
: 123_0002.jpg and the photos taken with new camer a seem to have format
: of IMG_0001.jpg, IMG_0002.jpg. I much prefer the first format but
: cannot seem to find a way to get pictures to save in that format.
:
: Can anyone help?

Depending on the version, it's in either Zoombrowser or the Canon Camera
Window. If you don't know what I'm talking about, you may have to break down
and read the manual and/or the on-line helps.

Bob

On Jul 14, 8:12 pm, Steve F wrote:
A couple of months ago i replaced my canon s45 with canon 710IS

I have been happily using the camera for last couple of months and
everything fine. I must confess that i leave it to my wife to upload
pictures from card to PC and every couple of months i back up photos.

I have noticed that the old photos on PC had format 123_0001.jpg,
123_0002.jpg and the photos taken with new camer a seem to have format
of IMG_0001.jpg, IMG_0002.jpg. I much prefer the first format but
cannot seem to find a way to get pictures to save in that format.

Can anyone help?

Regards

Steve

This free renaming utility works fine:
http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/

On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:56:21 GMT, "Roy G"
wrote:

The use of "IMG" would seem to indicate that the images are being renamed by
the downloading program.

IMG_ ... is the way current Canons name their JPG files in the camera.
At least both of mine do.

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On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 09:55:58 -0700, Bill Funk wrote:

The use of "IMG" would seem to indicate that the images are being
renamed by the downloading program.

Usually cameras use somthing like "DSC" as part of the file name.

The use of "IMG" would seem to indicate that the images are being renamed by
the downloading program.

IMG_ ... is the way current Canons name their JPG files in the camera.
At least both of mine do.

Not just current Canons. All of mine use IMG_ for their filenames
and have done so since 2000. I'll bet that the OP's new camera
doesn't have its files copied to the hard drive using the same
software that the older camera(s?) used. Many cameras come with
software that renames files as they're copied. I don't see that as
an option in Canon's Zoombrowser, but the FinePixViewer provided
with Fuji's cameras offers a fairly flexible renaming ability,
allowing you to apply a Pattern, User Settings, and to "Start
Continuous Numbers from:" to the files copied from the card and
saved to the hard drive. There are probably many commercial photo
apps. that also have the ability to rename copied or imported files.

FWIW, my Fuji uses DSCF and my Nikon uses DSC_ instead of Canon's
IMG_ for their filenames.

"Mardon" wrote in message
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On Jul 14, 8:12 pm, Steve F wrote:
A couple of months ago i replaced my canon s45 with canon 710IS

I have been happily using the camera for last couple of months and
everything fine. I must confess that i leave it to my wife to upload
pictures from card to PC and every couple of months i back up photos.

I have noticed that the old photos on PC had format 123_0001.jpg,
123_0002.jpg and the photos taken with new camer a seem to have format
of IMG_0001.jpg, IMG_0002.jpg. I much prefer the first format but
cannot seem to find a way to get pictures to save in that format.

Can anyone help?

Regards

Steve

This free renaming utility works fine:
http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/


Thanks gto everyone who posted. Turns out that when we got new camer a we
updated canon zoombrowser which is used for uploading photos. Latest version
does not rename photos.

Used bulkrenameutility and that does exactly what i want. Cheers

Steve

Can Canon cameras let you just
drag and drop photos to a PC?

Panasonic will, which is part of
the reason I may stick with a
Panasonic when I upgrade.
(their MP3 players will too)

Do most Digicams allow you
to drag and drop, or do they
require their own software to
download pics?

On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 15:55:35 -0400, wrote:

Can Canon cameras let you just
drag and drop photos to a PC?

Yes. But they're more limited than most other cameras, which
allow the entire memory card to be accessed, including folders not
used by the camera. It's not a big problem for most people, but for
the few that might think that it is, a cheap card reader solves
*that* problem.


Do most Digicams allow you
to drag and drop, or do they
require their own software to
download pics?

Yes, most allow you to not only drag and drop, but you can also
copy files to or from the card by typing DOS commands from within a
DOS window. There's no reason for most people to every want to
attempt this, but I mentioned it just to point out that most digital
cameras present their memory cards to the PC as if they were true
hard drives, allowing most normal file operations.

In other words, get the camera that you really like, whether or
not it has any minor file transfer limitations.