renaming 20D raw files

[htbyron]

Chris: Thanks for this great forum -- much better interface than yahoo groups & hopefully easier for everyone to use.

OK, so I have a question, too. I used to use batch rename on my DRebel pics using the %f image format token, which worked fine distinguishing between CRW raw files & jpegs. But my new 20D (like the 1DII) instead uses the CR2 extension for raw files. So BB no longer distinguishes between raw & jpg files when renaming. Is this something that has been fixed in BBPro (my eval period has expired & it won't let me use that function)? It would be nice if BB would recognize the new CR2 format as a raw file & give it a different tag in the renaming process than jpgs. If it won't, then I guess I'll change my renaming conventions going forward. Any thoughts or advice?

Thanks,
Tom

[Chris Breeze]

I'm not sure what the best way to handle this is. Cameras which support the CRW raw format name JPEGs as IMG_nnnn.JPG and raw files as CRW_nnnn.CRW. The 20D names both raw files and JPEGs as IMG_nnnn.JPG/CR2. In fact they also have the daft naming convention of changing the first character of the filename to _ if the picture is shot using AdobeRGB, but that's probably best ignored.
%f could give CR2 for 20D raw files and IMG for JPEGs, but I don't really like the idea of having the '2' because it makes the image number harder to read. Maybe it would be better to use "RAW" instead.

[MikeD]

Thanks for the post and reply as I had the same problem and thought it was a bug with bb showing up both the raw and .jpg files in the same place with same name. Not sure I fully understood Chris's reply and the reason why after converting a .crw file to .jpg it still comes out in the browser 'on top' of each other so you can't select each separately. Seem to recall that I changed the name of the .jpg's manually to something slightly different as there were only a few that I needed to be in the same directory as the .crw's.

[Chris Breeze]

BB has the ability to link raw+JPEGs files and treat them as a pair. This is convenient when handling files which were shot as raw+JPEG in the camera. You can turn this linking off in BB's preferences under the image display tab.