So I’ve had that new Sony DSC-F828 for a little over a week now, and I’m very pleased with it. I’ve taken hundreds of pictures already, and they’ve turned out much better than they would have with the 3.3 MP camera I had before. I’ve blown some of them up to 11×14, and they still look great at that size.
The only slight issue I’ve had is that this camera does not name the files with the date, like my last camera did. It just names them DSC#####.jpg, where ##### is an incrementing number. This makes it a little difficult to manage when you get lots of pictures, particularly if you’re sharing files with someone else who has a camera with the same naming scheme, since you would then potentially have overlapping names. The solution I found this morning works quite well. Rename Master allows you to set up rules to rename any type of file using a number of attributes, including the date of the file, JPEG EXIF tags, and even MP3 tags for MP3s. You can save your settings as scripts, then re-execute the script every time you copy new pictures from the camera. It works great, and it’s free!
