IMG_0100-2000100
Copyright © 2006 Richard Akerman
Taken October 7, 2006
UPDATE 2006-10-11: I have also made a Flickr group http://www.flickr.com/groups/10000th-photo/
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In case you're wondering about the file numbering...
Canon goes from IMG_0001 to IMG_99xx and wraps around to IMG_0001 again. Oh, good use of 8 characters there, wouldn't want to lose that vital IMG_ in front of the number.
I had assumed it would go to IMG_9999 and wrap, but in my case it didn't.
You may not know it, but (for Canon at least) in your image EXIF is the sequential image number from your camera.
Canon counts in blocks of 100, starting with file directory / sequence #100.
100 - 0001 (1000001) = your first image
100 - 0100 (1000100) = your 100th image
101 - 0101 (1000101) = your 101st image
this, I assumed, would proceed in an orderly fashion through
198 - 9900 (1989900) = your 9900th image
199 - 9901 (1999901) = your 9901th image
200 - 0001 (2000001) = your 10,000th image
but for reasons known only to Canon, it skipped directory sequence #199 altogether.
So my photos go
198 - 9900 (1989900) = 9990th
200 - 0001 (2000001) = 9991st
200 - 0100 (2000100) = 10000th
I used Irfanview with rename pattern $N-$E80 to renumber all files starting at IMG_0001 to e.g. IMG_0001-2000001 ($E80 is the Irfanview pattern to retreive the Canon image number from the EXIF).
That way every file name is still unique.
I don't have my original first-light image #0001 but I do have my 19th digital photo, from June 14, 2000. (See previous posting.) So 10,000 photos in just over six years. The photos span two cameras, my original S20 and my current S70.
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