Creating Folders in Camera

[ozone567]

I am having a problem trying to figure out a digital camera that allows you to create folders manually within the camera itself.

Here is the situation we are in:

Our business provides inventoring services, we enter all of the product information etc into a tablet pc and upload the data to the web. In addition to data we are also currently using a Canon SD300 digital camera to take pictures of the product(s).

The images get uploaded to our servers seperate of the product data on the PCs. So, the problem is ensuring that all of the pictures for a given product are correctly associated with their corresponding product data. The images are uploaded to one central location, then an app runs to take those pictures and put them in their correct (client|product) specific location.

Right now the way we are doing it, is as we are entering data into the tablet PCs, there is a screen that asks for image names, and we are manually entering all of the image names as displayed on the camera for each picture, which in some cases may be 10 - 15 images and is very time consuming and more prone to user mistakes.

So, finally. The idea is if there is a way to manually create folders on a digital camera then all we have to do is specify that one folder name in our table pc app and not all of the image names.


Does anyone know of a camera that can do this, that is also preferrably the size of the Canon SD300 or any other small camera?

Or always open to other suggestions.

Thanks,

Bryan

[Michael Fanelli]

I am having a problem trying to figure out a digital camera that allows you to create folders manually within the camera itself.

I don't know of any cameras that allow you to do this. It would be a clumsy process on a small camera anyway. Memory cards are very cheap. Why not buy a bunch of 32M cards and use each one as a separate "folder"?

[ozone567]

I don't know of any cameras that allow you to do this. It would be a clumsy process on a small camera anyway. Memory cards are very cheap. Why not buy a bunch of 32M cards and use each one as a separate "folder"?

Michael,

I don't see the process as being that clumsy, it's actually better organized than having all of the images thrown into one folder, and this is also assuming that there is some type of quick key or easy to access method to create the folder. The memory card idea is probably not a bad solution if your only taking images of a couple seperate thing. However, what happens in our case is that we may have to go and inventory 100 seperate units in one day and that's way too many cards, would be hard to manage and not cost effective. Also, this one mean sending out images back to our server one card at a time, rather than all at once.

We need to make sure all the images we shoot for each unit are all in their own respective folders so that when we load them to our server they can easily be identified by the automated process we have running.

There are cameras that allow for the folder creation, however, the only ones we have found are large Digital SLRs, we need to make sure that our camera is also small like the Canon PowerShot SD300 that we are currently using. We don't need anything special with the capability of attaching external lenses, or like 4 Mega pixels or anything.

Thanks for your response.