Why Every camera Putting His picture in the DCIM folder?

Perhaps many of you are wondering why any digital camera or smartphone always have the DCIM folder to accommodate any resulting photo?
You need to know, DCIM stands for Digital Camera Images, the folder that holds all of the images from a camera. Why is that? DCIM born from DCF.



What the DCF? "Design rule for Camera File system"
DCF initiated by JEITA, an agency Industrial Technology of Japan whose full name is the Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association. Actually, arcing DCIM folder just as standardization, as well as storage media such as SD cards, which must have FAT16 or FAT32 format that can be read on a device such as a smartphone or a digital camera. The point is that many devices can be compatible with the SD card.
Still Not Understand? Okay, So Gini!
DCF set DCIM (Digital Camera Images) as the default folder name that should exist in every device that has a camera, DSLR, Digital Camera, Smartphone, and others.
Basically, the DCIM folder has sub-folders in it, and consistently naming each file it with the three-digit number from 100-999 and five alphanumeric characters. However, sometimes it is not widely used alphanumeric characters.
For example, Apple. The company is fortunate enough, because Apple has 5 characters and can be used as a folder name, such as 100APPLE, 200APPLE or more.
Here we understand why in every Android smartphone, definitely images produced from the camera will go into a folder 100ANDRO. Already know right?
The arrangement like this:
DCIM> 100ANDRO> DCF_0001.JPG, DCF_0002.JPG, DCF_0003.JPG



Ever Saw file format .THM in In Folder?
For you who always pay attention to the little things in each folder, definitely never seen .THM file format, is not it? Yes, it is a metadata file to a video.
If the video recording and play with a variety of media players, .THM file is a file that contains data such as thumbnails and other metadata. So, you do not need to worry or be suspicious of this one file.
Then, Why All Manufacturers Follow?
"Why all follow to use the DCIM folder as the default folder?" - A very good question. DCF is standardized for a digital camera or smartphone. This means that, by standardizing it will facilitate a wide range of software which follow the standards for import and export.
For example, when you connect the smartphone to a computer to melakukant photos, folders that will be addressed is the DCIM folder, so that the software can instantly recognize the folder where the pictures are located, and can do the job automatically.

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