Nikon D780 DSLR Camera (Body Only) - Manual (Page 596)

550 Menu Guide > C The Photo Shooting Menu
Pictures are saved using file names consisting of “DSC_”
followed by a four-digit number and a three-letter extension.
[
File naming ] is used to select three letters to replace the “DSC”
portion of the file name. For information on text entry, see “Text
Entry” (
0 61).
D File Names
• File names take the form “DSC_nnnn.xxx”. nnnn is a number from 0001
to 9999. xxx is one of the following extensions, assigned according to
the options selected for image quality and file type:
- NEF: NEF (RAW) photos
- JPG: JPEG (fine, normal, or basic) photos
- MOV: MOV movies
- MP4: MP4 movies
- NDF: Dust off reference data
• Images created with [ Adobe RGB ] selected for [ Color space ] have file
names of the form “_DSCnnnn.xxx”.
• In each pair of photographs recorded at image-quality settings of NEF
(RAW)+JPEG, the NEF and JPEG images have the same file names but
different extensions.
File Naming
G button
U C photo shooting menu