When photographers set the time in their cameras there’s a step they often miss. This topic keeps coming up again and again when helping folks on workshops, so I figured it would be worth spelling it out here. Before you update the camera’s time, take a photo of an accurate and precise …
This past weekend saw the end of Daylight Saving Time (DST) in all the Australian states except Queensland, Western Australia, and the Northern Territory. So we set our clocks back and hour and got an extra hour of sleep on Sunday morning. Many of our clocks automatically updated without us having …
I’ve written before about some of the advantages (and pitfalls) of using GPS units to set accurate time in cameras. Having accurate time enables geocoding of photos, and makes it a lot easier to manage images from multiple cameras. One of the issues with setting the time via GPS is that …
I’ve written in the past about the unusual timezone used on Australia’s Lord Howe Island. But it’s not the only Australian location with an unusual timezone. Norfolk Island is another. To recap: On Lord Howe during summer the timezone offset is GMT+11: the same as Sydney in summer. During the …
In part 1 I discussed why we set our cameras to match the local time, reminded you to actually set the time, and talked about ways of keeping multiple devices in sync. In part 2 I’m going to talk more about selecting timezones.
In this post I’m going to talk again about managing the time in your cameras. It sounds really boring, but there are some gotchas that photographers should be aware of. It’s something many photographers don’t give any thought, even if they actually change the camera’s time twice a year because of Daylight …
With the recent end of Daylight Savings time here, I took the opportunity to check the time in all my devices and get them set as accurately as possible. As I noted in my Daylight Savings again! post, for a long time I’ve used Canon’s EOS Utility to set the …
