How to retain file names from the camera?

NN235963UL2

• April 18, 2014 11:12

I have a situation in which I should like to shoot a tethered Canon camera and retain the original file name and numbers.
It seems that I have to change them. This is normally a good idea but this time I can't allow it to happen. Any advice?
Capture1 6.4.4 on a MAC

Many thanks in advance,

Robert

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  Paul Steunebrink

  • April 19, 2014 02:59

  When you tether to Capture One, the camera does not provide a file name. This task is handed over to the software.

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  brianmerwin

  • April 20, 2014 21:18

  Paul_Steunebrink wrote:
  When you tether to Capture One, the camera does not provide a file name. This task is handed over to the software.

  
  
  Paul is correct, however you could possibly approximate the original file name by setting your "next capture rename" settings to match IMG_[Camera Counter]. That assumes of course that your camera is set to the default file name prefix of IMG_.
  
  It's not a perfect solution due to the nature of the Canon SDK that the PhaseOne dev team has to work with but I bet something along these lines would get you most of the way where you want to be.

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  SFA

  • April 20, 2014 23:14

  Do you need to shoot with tethered functionality?
  
  Could you just shoot to a hot folder and so retain the camera file name?
  
  
  Grant

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