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I've been quietly thinking about something that was mentioned recently which is the feature the D200 and D2X have of being able to have custom shooting modes, so that you can quickly change between shooting styles etc. I was just wondering if these settings can include the destination folder for the photos you are taking ? For instance you have a custom setting bank called Weddings and one called Reception, can you get it to store the various files in a particular subdirectory ? If this is the case (and I doubt it), then is it possible to only view the photos taken in a certain mode, while in that mode ? So to review Reception photos you have to change to reception settings ?

While there's no chance of me getting either of these camera's anytime soon, I'd really like a camera that is this configurable / intelligent, however it could just be me that sees this has a handy feature.

Craig, don't know about the cameras, but you can rename the folder in your CF cards. Ie one called reception on one card, one called wedding on another

I know I can do rename manually via the PC or via the menu, and what I noticed was that if I had shots in another directory I couldn't see them when I went to review the shots, what I was hoping a quick (very quick preferable) method of swapping between two or more different destinations.

From what I can see the answer is no

I don't think that you can get these camers to automatically create a new folder when you change the custom mode. But as an alternative when you want to create a a new folder for custom settings, you just turn the camera off and then back on with the "?" button held down on both the D2X and D200 and it will create a new folder automatically (a short cut to doing it on the menu).

You could then change your custom settings and the images would be saved in a different folder.

Stuart