Re: Need utility to set Nikon camera date/time

Craig Johnson wrote:
My wife and I have Nikons (D70s, D80 & D200).

I'm looking for some sort of utility that will quickly and easily sync
the camera date & time to the time on my PC. (Prefer Windows XP
capability, but can work with Suse Linux or Mac Mini if needed).

It's kind of annoying to review vacation photos where we are both
shooting away, and one camera is 5 minutes off the other. I use
Downloader Pro to rename photos with date/time so they sort in
chronological order.

And then there are the times one of us forgets to change the time zone
as we travel. Funny, but we never seem to forget to do that on the
laptop we use to download the images each day.
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Craig,

Two suggestions:

- Keep your cameras on UTC - avoids any time zone issues.

- Sync the cameras by hand at the start of a trip. Mine seem to be not
more than a few seconds off after about a week.

Cheers,
David


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