Jan 19, 2012 | Post by: josh No Comments

Useful Tip for a Multi-Camera Vacation

It was hard enough to cull through pic­tures after a trip, when it was just my pic­tures.  But now, we often travel with other fam­i­lies, each with one or more cam­eras click­ing away.   A sim­ple week­end trip can gen­er­ate 500 or more pho­tos.  A nice week’s vaca­tion can gen­er­ate thou­sands.  Mak­ing sense of all those pho­tos can be a real bear when we get home.

But here’s a tip that helps a lot:  Be sure that all your cam­eras are set to the same time of day!

For this pur­pose, it doesn’t really mat­ter if the time zone matches your actual loca­tion.   So even if we’ll be time-zone hop­ping, we just leave our cam­eras set to the cor­rect time back home.  We get the pay­off so long as we have SYNCHRONIZED clocks.  And by “syn­chro­nized” I just mean “within a minute or two of each other.”  There’s usu­ally no need to synch down to the sec­ond, which is good, because it can be a pain to achieve with sev­eral cameras.

Sort by date created, to organize photos from different cameras

Big Pay­off by Synch’ing Cam­era Clocks

Here’s the almost-magical pay­off: if we put all the files together in the same folder, and then SORT by DATE CREATED, then all the files will fall into chrono­log­i­cal order, regard­less of which cam­era they came from!

I can blast through the pho­tos in less than halfthe time, by not wor­ry­ing about whether this one came before that one, and oh wait, here’s a bunch that hap­pened a few days ear­lier, and so on.  Instead, I can focus on the edit­ing task: rank­ing pho­tos using my soft­ware, delet­ing the ter­ri­ble shots, and then run­ning through them again until I’ve got what I need for my book.

If you need help learn­ing how to set the time on your cam­era, please just call or email, we’re happy to help.

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