Canon 7D custom file name glitch
Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2014 10:52 am
After downloading some images that I had taken with my Canon 7D recently, I noticed, to my consternation, that the file names of all the images on the CF card read as “_D__XXXX.Jpg etc. They should be “7D_XXXX.Jpg. The “seven” was missing and replaced with an underscore. I checked the last lot of images that I had downloaded, a week ago, and they were correct. I checked the in-camera custom setting for “Filename” where I have set the prefix to “7D_” and the setting was correct. I changed the setting and discovered that, no matter what digit or letter I set as the first character, the camera replaces it with an underscore. Yet, if I deliberately try to set an underscore as the first character, the camera won’t allow it, and a dialogue pops up saying “This character cannot be used as the first character of the file name!” What can change, all by itself, between my using the camera last week and now?
I have now up-dated the firmware from V2.0.0 to V2.0.5 but this has not cured the problem. I have set the custom file name as "D7D" which the camera interprets as " _7D". Anyone else have this issue? Oh, and it happens with both .Jpg and .CR2 file formats, viewed in Finder or Lightroom. I use Apple OS.X
I have now up-dated the firmware from V2.0.0 to V2.0.5 but this has not cured the problem. I have set the custom file name as "D7D" which the camera interprets as " _7D". Anyone else have this issue? Oh, and it happens with both .Jpg and .CR2 file formats, viewed in Finder or Lightroom. I use Apple OS.X
