Lots of reader mail has been flowing in lately, and a few of the questions have me stumped. So I thought I'd occasionally run one or two by our adept virtual camera club members to see if anyone has an answer.
Dale writes: "I've been using burst mode on my D300 and noticed something odd that perhaps you could comment on. Whenever I shoot in burst mode I find that the camera records the images slightly out of order."
"For a portrait session, that wouldn't matter of course, but for sports it's a little annoying because I like to have the images in the correct order when I view them on the LCD or in software later."
"For example, when I shoot basketball games, a player might be going up for a lay up, and in the next image, he or she is still driving to the basket. I sometimes will delete images during timeouts, and it's very disconcerting to have the images out of order. Perhaps this is a minor thing, but it sure would be helpful to have them in the correct sequence."
"Have you experienced this or know any solutions?"
Dale, I haven't shot much with a D300 (though would like to), so I don't know what is going on here. But hopefully a few of our readers will have some idea of what may be causing this.
Please post a comment if you think you have an answer... or something interesting to add.
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The D300 out-of-order problem sounds like a sorting error. Without knowing what application is downloading the images; nor what application or type file is receiving the images, I would go to the final resting place for the images and sort on "time." The D300 time stamps each image.
The D300 out-of-order problem sounds like a sorting error. Without knowing what application is downloading the images; nor what application or type file is receiving the images, I would go to the final resting place for the images and sort on "time." The D300 time stamps each image.
This happens with both the D300 and the D200 and probably many other cameras. I believe it has to do with the fact the each file is slightly different in size based on content, and in some cases the shot fired second might be smaller and thus gets saved first. I have noticed it and it is not D300 specific. Hope this helps and sound reasonable
Hi Guys,
Thanks for the comments; it's still an issue, and I have tried the "sort on time" technique" but unfortunately, that didn't work either. I'm going to try a tip from "Digital Photography Boot Camp" (by Kevin Kubota.) He recommends, in his Troubleshooting section, a program called ExifUtils from www.hugsan.com. I'll post the results in a week or so.