Sync Your Cameras | Ask David Bergman

Cameras really need GPS for things like location, time zone, date and time. That would solve lots of issues and manual steps.

Well this is just timely subject on how to keep the timeline on one images I from an event with several cameras. It a time saver for tons of images on one event. Great trick to keep in mind. Thanks David

Finally someone is taking about this.

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Good stuff. I used to shoot dirt track race cars and always sync'd my cameras. I now have the opposite problem. I shoot multiple timelapses and when I import them, they end up in the same folder, jumbled together. I've always imported to LR by date. Now I have to make another folder, sort by metadata in grid view, and drag one camera's images to the second folder. Is there a way to sort by file name? Thanks BTW, I loved Photo Mechanic when I shot race cars but don't need it now.

I use my Nikon's 'SnapBridge' utility which syncs my camera bodies. Nice feature :) Great video David

Story of my life David, and I offer another solution... I'm a multi-body event shooter and find that camera time 'drift' is a very real thing. Typically the last shot of the night I put all the bodies into M and MF and sync a shot between them. Then once imported into LR I select one bodies last image frame and it's time taken, and then go body by body sync all those manual images to that first frames time and it works perfectly. It's an extra step but always sorts out perfectly when preparing for culling/edits. I think it's way easier than shooting a clock.

Nikon Transfer can be used to sync your date/time.

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I used to have my second photographer and I all take a photo with the lens caps on all at the start of a wedding them adjsut the time stamps with the similar method in Lightroom.

Knowing that the photos were all taken at the same time allowed that to work.

Nowadays before shoots with multiple cameras we have a quick meeting and set the times on all cameras based on our cellphones time.

Excellent tip, I almost always remember to sync/change time zones on my cameras until I forget... then it's mess... well not anymore 👍👍

Brilliant technique David, a great way to sync the time after the event 👍

I went to set the time on my A7 yesterday. Noticed that it has an option for daylight saving time on or off, but no option that I could see to select a timezone. So no idea how DST can work without specifying a timezone.

Thanks for the tip re setting the clock using the Canon Utility software. Will be using that in the future!

reset every time summer time is changed and back after summer

I make sure my bodies are synced with my cellphone, since I use the cellphone for geotagging.

Thanks for that, David. A very elegant solution to a problem that I had never realised even existed!

Excellent PM tip!

You can Use the phone App Also And Sync It With your Phone time Using the
Canon Camera Connect App Its Both on Play Store and Ios and Supports Most Canon Cameras. SO If you forgot To do it On your Pc Just do it On your phone On the Spot. Thanks David.

Tips like this are what make me check out Ask David Bergman every time. Thank you David!

This is not a problem for me as I only have one camera, but a really useful solution to keep in my “toolbox”!

I knew this before .... but forgot it .... so great you bring it back to my mind .... thanks from germany

This video stated the obvious, nothing noteworthy, surely not brilliant, as stated by someone. Interesting is what to do if you do not have photos of clocks to synchronize. In one case I had 3 cameras, and a winter time change in the middle of the shoot, and I spotted the wrong time zone one days and changed it. Lots of hassle afterwards to get it all in sync.
Programs like Lightroom provide a time handler modifier, thus the synchronization can be achieved in non destructive way in the raw processor itself.
But for example Capture One does not have any support for that. One might invest is something like Photo Mechanic, indeed, but its support for that is simplistic. One needs to make notes, compare images, deduce which was made after which and in what time delay.
I use the free and so widely compatible Exiftool with *.bat script, but note that these adjustments are not non-destructive. One might also use a 2nd pass to adjust timestamps of the files to the exif time, what Exiftool also does. None of these solutions is really satisfactory. I wish I could select images and say to the program what order they have to be.

Yep, I forget to check with only two bodies it still gets confusing back in the day.
Great tip on the fix
Thanks

I just had this thought about the time-zone switching when traveling. Could you just work around that by using UTC/GMT, which also eliminates the daylight saving issue?

I'm a nerd when it comes to setting clocks. I have multiple cameras, camcorders, and sound recorders... and I pull them all out when Daylight Savings time changes to make sure they are all set to the correct hour. And I always check and set the time before each event to fix drift. It's my fun little project twice a year! 😎

Call me old fashioned, but I still use the GPS on my DSLR to set the clock.

Thank you, David! This was a great workaround for so many people! I'm no pro but when I get there, I'll remember this because I never check my time on the camera.

Wow! Genius yet again. Thank you!!

Great. Thank

💛 the tip about capturing a picture of a clock to correct camera time!

I like to let the camera use GPS to set the clock