How do you change a digital image's prefix?
I had a Cannon IS S5 (a digital) and when I uploaded the pictures to my computer, the image would save as "IMG_0000". Now I have a Cannon Rebel XSI (an SLR) and it uploads with the same prefix. I want to keep a lot of the pictures from the first camera with the "IMG" prefix. So how do I edit the settings either on my camera or on my computer to change the prefix of the new images being uploaded?
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If you can't change it on your camera, you can do this on your computer. I would change all my old file prefixes so I wouldn't need to fiddle with the new images.
If you have a Windows computer, from the command line (DOS window), you can use the "ren" command which will rename the files. As long as all the file names are the SAME number of characters, you can use the ? wildcard. I don't know what to do if you are using a Mac unless you drop down to Linux where you would use the "move" command.
Example for Windows:
ren IMG_????.jpg OLD_????.jpg
The above command will change all the file name prefixes from IMG to OLD.
Be sure to try this out on a test directory (copy a few images and make sure the above does what you want).
Afterthought ... There's a program called JHEAD. This has a renaming feature which has a few options. It's a command line program for many different operating systems.
http://www.sentex.ca/~mwandel/jhead/
Ah.. the good old MS-DOS command. It works well, but you have to invoke the command.com (called CMD now, I think), then you have to log on to the directory (which is now called folder).
Easier with Adobe Lightroom. You "import" the photos from the memory card and you can rename / tag them your way.
http://www.adobe.com/lightroom