The other day I was whiling away my time while my daughter was taking her music lessons. The pictures I have posted here are not worthwhile but something one would categorize as pure time pass. Nevertheless I tried to capture the moon in a night sky with a Samsung phone camera.
One thing has
intrigued me was why pictures from all cameras gets stored in a folder
called DCIM. What is DCIM anyways?
I now discovered that many many moonlit
nights back DCIM, which is an acronym for Digital Camera IMages, became the
default directory structure for digital cameras.
Once a memory card is inserted into any camera, the camera
immediately looks for a folder by the name of ‘DCIM' folder. That is true for
every camera – whether it is a DSLR, other dedicated digital camera, Android
phone or an Iphone. If it doesn't find one, it creates one and similarly some
desktop image-editing programs are designed to look specifically for ‘DCIM'
folders on any media inserted into the PC.
The DCIM folder and its layout come from DCF, a standard
created back in 2003 by JEITA, the Japan Electronics and Information Technology
Industries Association.
There is more information available in the World of Internet
for anyone willing to dig further.
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