Fujifilm GFX100 II: Why do Idiot Firmware Designers Reset my File Numbering Randomly?
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Down out of the mountains for a few hours, all crusty and cantankerous, sitting in a hot van where I have cell coverage, with no tolerance for things damaging my workflow.
My capture numbers went from _DGL0767.RAF to _DGL001.RAF for no apparent reason*, which causes all sorts of organizational problems ().
There is also that damaging assine"fix" when the frame number hits 999—thanks but no thanks you idiot engineers at Fujifilm—make it a preference OMG what terrible judgment—and worse‚ you do not fix (over years) your serious bugs, and now this?!).
The GFX100S never screwed me this way. No other camera on the market gets it so wrong.
* Is it because I created a new folder eg 102_DGLY === 102_DGLY? If so, that’s a serious bug?
Did I mention this causes a f*ckload of organizational problems? I rely heavily (for several reasons) on sequentially numbered files. A cascade of dowstream problems ensues when this is broken.
There is no excuse for this kind of idiotic camera behavior. Fujifilm, what the hell is wrong with your judgment?
Renumbering can be done: oh—which of several software must I now master, making sure I don’t royally screw things up (eg exiftool is not exactly easy to use). And that does not fix the internal file names in the EXIF, and if that is done, then it modifies the files and whacks the file modification date. Godamn unacceptable Fujifilm!
UPDATE: I found the explanation: creating a new folder always resets file numbering, ignoring the setting. And making the creation of a new folder (eg for a pano or other subject change) a useless feature, at least for my work. The incredbily bad judgment of Fujifilm engineers really rankles. Or maybe it’s just a bug? Which holds out little hope for a fix, given Fujifilm’s slow (standstill) pace of improving anything in the firmware, let alone fixing a critical bug for 5 years.
It seems that the best camera for getting the best images is going to remain cursed with a litany of workflow-damaging, capture-degrading and make-work design problems. Nothing is perfect, but fixing all these things is “free money” for satisfying customers... so why does Fujifilm sit around with thumbs up where the sun don’t shine, leaving these problems in place?
