AstonSenna
Member
Hope this long-winded explanation makes sense.
On my D5 last weekend shooting a motorsports event, I had set-up the extended menu banks for different settings depending on my needs and programmed it to swap through them via the record button.
At the same time, I had a highly inconvenient thing happen where, even though i formatted my card at the beginning of said event: Photos were not being stored in chronological order. Each 1,000 photos, it creates a new sub folder, like 101, then 102 etc. And then randomly, new photos would end up in prior sub-folder, and some sub-folders would have only 30 pics before creating the next sub folder. Being time sensitive in between sessions to offload my pictures, this was super crappy because I couldn't find my newest and latest photos lol. They were basically hidden in random folders that made no sense. This was first time using the menu banks, and it can't be a happenstance.
I noticed often that, when I switched from custom shooting bank A to b and so on, the top LCD would read 'FULL' before clicking the shutter and only then it realized, oh that's right, we have 40 GB of storage left. The fact the top lcd would tell me it was full each time switching must have meant the weird storage problems were related to the menu banks.
So...anyone have this problem and how to avoid it when using the custom menu banks? The last day I decided to not use them anymore and no more problems, but using the menu banks was more convenient than using the mode button and not having things like auto iso on one setting, and another already at 1/30 and iso 50. But, dang, it really, REALLY messed with my files.
On my D5 last weekend shooting a motorsports event, I had set-up the extended menu banks for different settings depending on my needs and programmed it to swap through them via the record button.
At the same time, I had a highly inconvenient thing happen where, even though i formatted my card at the beginning of said event: Photos were not being stored in chronological order. Each 1,000 photos, it creates a new sub folder, like 101, then 102 etc. And then randomly, new photos would end up in prior sub-folder, and some sub-folders would have only 30 pics before creating the next sub folder. Being time sensitive in between sessions to offload my pictures, this was super crappy because I couldn't find my newest and latest photos lol. They were basically hidden in random folders that made no sense. This was first time using the menu banks, and it can't be a happenstance.
I noticed often that, when I switched from custom shooting bank A to b and so on, the top LCD would read 'FULL' before clicking the shutter and only then it realized, oh that's right, we have 40 GB of storage left. The fact the top lcd would tell me it was full each time switching must have meant the weird storage problems were related to the menu banks.
So...anyone have this problem and how to avoid it when using the custom menu banks? The last day I decided to not use them anymore and no more problems, but using the menu banks was more convenient than using the mode button and not having things like auto iso on one setting, and another already at 1/30 and iso 50. But, dang, it really, REALLY messed with my files.