New user with SD card question.

[Fanner50]

Hey everyone, I'm a brand new user and this is my first post.  I just bought a Sony A6000, my first mirrorless camera, and I am loving it.  I still have my Canon 6D, but I sold my Rebel T2i and my APS-C lenses.  I intend to use the A6000 for as much of my photography as I can.

 

My question is this.  I bought a brand new 64 GB Sandisk class 10 card to start out with.  It is of course starting out with file 1 and the count is going up.  Now the question...if I take the card that was in the T2i and put it in the A6000, and format it will the file number be the next one in order from the 64GB card that I just took out of the camera?  Say I took 100 pictures on the 64GB card and then put in the card that was in the T2I, will the first file be 101? Will the file numbers stay in order no mater what card I use or how much I switch between cards?  I don't want to use a card with 10,000 shots on and have the new Sony start out at 10,001.  Does that make sense?  Thanks for the help everyone.  I can already tell that I am really going to enjoy this new A6000.

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" if I take the card that was in the T2i and put it

in the A6000, and format it will the file number

be the next one in order from the 64GB card

that I just took out of the camera? "

   

Normally ... yes. 

 

It's a bit complicated and it's in the User Manual.  

  

It's not a Sony thing. All digital cameras do the 

same thing. So if you've already got a grasp of it 

from your Canon, same deal with Sony. 

  

Acoarst there are little schneckens like whether

you direct the camera to assign a new folder for 

every calendar day, etc, etc. But basically it's the 

same protocol for all digital cameras. In default 

protocol, a camera remembers its own number 

series and you can get jumps in numbers when  

swapping cards. No folder can count beyond 

9999. Inserting a card at, say, 9997 will quickly 

bump the camera into a new folder. The effect 

is symmetrical. A card can bump a camera and 

the camera can bump a card. At least thaz my 

best grasp of it all. It's been a while since I read 

the book ! I mark all my cards as to which body 

I've assigned them to. Then I stop thinking :-) 

   

As I understand it, the default protocol is set up 

to spare you the grief of duplicate file names for 

entirely different images. Consider what occurs  

when dumping a shoot into your mass storage

drive if one of the new files has the same name 

as one of the files already on the storage drive.   

Acoarst this only works until the count reaches 

9999. Go figger :-( 

    

OTOH, some users always start a new folder on 

the mass storage drive for every new dump. So 

thaz why there's options and thaz why it's better  

to read exactly what it says in the book.