If you only shoot with one camera, you will never have to deal with the issue of syncing clocks, but if you have ever shot a large event with multiple bodies that were not perfectly in sync, you know the frustration of trying to cull those images. This excellent video tutorial will show you why you need to sync the time between your camera bodies, how to do it, and how to fix a time discrepancy in post if you forget to sync beforehand.
Coming to you from David Bergman with Adorama TV, this fantastic video tutorial will show you the ins and outs of syncing the time between multiple camera bodies. I know this pain well, and it has bitten me in the butt a few times. Even being off by just 10 seconds between cameras has caused me a lot of headaches in trying to sort different photos that were in the wrong place in the timeline. Thankfully, it is a bit easier to fix that misalignment now, but, of course, the best way to fix the error is to never have it happen in the first place! Check out the video above for the full rundown from Bergman.
Sony needs a way to make this easy, like NTP when on the WiFi.
A request to pros selling event photographs to clients - make sure if you are selling digital pictures that the system you use for the customer doesn't trample the timestamp. I have 800 (excellent) photos of my daughter's wedding timestamped by the time it generated the download folder... then I want to add to a couple of hundred of my own to then get down to a bearable sized album to show to others. When duplicates of poses are scattered throughout the collection, it's not a fun task to cull.
Yet another ‘should’ title.
Absolutely essential for the wedding photographer; I once had an assistant who didn't synchronise his cameras ... grrrrrr.