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file sequencing when shooting with two bodies
Gary Jones, Photographer
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Rocklin | CA | United States | Posted: 3:31 PM on 03.09.05 |
| ->> I'll be using two bodies most of the time now and want to have a straightforward process for combining my game photos into a single folder with sequential filenames. I want to preserve chronological order in all of my game photos. What's the best way to do this? Assuming my cameras clocks are synchronized, I can have each camera use different filename prefixes. Then I copy the files from both cameras into a single folder (name collision avoided through different prefixes) and use BreezeBrowser to batch rename all of the files inti IMG_*** using the timestamp as the sequence rule. My cameras are D2H. The part that may be tricky is maintaing the two clocks to be within 10 seconds or so of each other. Is there an easier or more reliable method? |
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Kevin M. Cox, Photographer, Assistant
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Round Rock (Austin) | TX | US | Posted: 3:49 PM on 03.09.05 |
->> Gary, it sounds like what you suggest is about as straight forward as it gets. I shoot with two bodies all the time. I use Canon (every camera in the 1 series names it's files uniquely) although as long is there isn't a possible file name conflict straight out of the camera it doesn't matter which brand is used.
I dump all my images from a single event into the same folder and then view using Photo Mechanic set to sort by "Capture Time." This displays them in order by time no matter which body they were shot with. I then rename them in sequence.
You can use any naming convention you want at this point. Personally mine looks like this: KMC-050308-sbl-MN-RR-01.jpg, -02, -03, etc. Straight away this shows me who shot the image, what date it was taken, the sport it was, and the teams involved. It also guarantees that I will never have a filename conflict in my system, ever. But like I said, use whichever convention you want and just tack in the sequence number at some point in the name. |
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Mike Isler, Photographer
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Santa Barbara | CA | US | Posted: 3:59 PM on 03.09.05 |
->> Gary: in order to synchronize the two clocks, hook each camera up to your computer and use Nikon Capture to synchronize the camera with your computer. Do that with each camera, and they should be accurate to within a second of each other. I've got that setup on all 3 of my EOS bodies, and it works like a charm, doing the same renaming convention within PhotoMechanic.
Mike |
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Matt Barton, Photographer
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Lexington | KY | USA | Posted: 4:03 PM on 03.09.05 |
| ->> Well Gary, I shoot with two Canon cameras and I just synchronized them one at a time to my computer's clock with the Canon software. I imagine Nikon can do the same thing. But it's really not that critical to be off a second or two. Unless you're just really picky about that. |
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Chuck Steenburgh, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Lexington | VA | USA | Posted: 4:03 PM on 03.09.05 |
->> Gary,
About the only way I know of to "easily" synchronize the camera clocks is to have NikonView reset the camera to your computer's time when they're connected. (I think Capture can do this too but I'm not certain.) Of course, this may be such a hassle for you that it would be easier just to check them manually. (I'm guessing you don't ordinarily have NV as part of your workflow since you mentioned BreezeBrowser.)
Also, you really don't need to worry about prefixes, either. If there are name duplicates, any decent browser/importer will either handle dupes automatically or let you specify what to do (such as renaming the duplicate file by adding a suffix) and since you're just going to rename all the files by date anyway it doesn't matter what this is (Nikon View, for example, just appends a "1" then a "2" etc to the end of the file name).
Chuck |
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