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How do I sort photos from multiple cameras by capture time?

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
February 3, 2022
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So on my last wedding photography project we had almost 4 different cameras shooting. One D750, one Z6II, One Mark IV and one 6D Mark II. When I import all of these photos in a single catalogue and hit "sort by capture time" what lightroom does is sort the photos by capture date from each camera separtely. That means First It'll sort by capture time the photos from my D750 and then My Z6II. So If I click 500 Photos from my D750 and 500 from my Z6II, Then Two photos taken at the same time from both of these cameras will so far apart in the catalogue. I hope I was able to explain the situation. Please suggest a fix for this in the latest lightroom classic.

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Bob Somrak

Legend

The cameras probably have the clocks set differently.

M4 Pro Mac Mini. 48GB

ManiacJoe

Inspiring

The way I get around the multi-camera names is by renaming the files using the format

yyyymmdd_hhmmss_nnnn

where the timestamp is the EXIF creation date and nnnn is the original file number.

(I don't do this in LR, but LR knows how to do it.)

When shooting only one camera, I will leave out the hhmmss.

Prior to the shoot I sync the clocks on the cameras to within 1 second.

Prior to the shoot I format all the cards in the cameras and reset the file numbers to 1.

This gives me unique file names across all shoots and gives me sorting by name = sort by date, which can be helpful when sort by date may not be working for all file viewers.

JohanElzenga

Community Expert

I rename too, but that does not answer the question. You should be able to sort images by capture time, regardless of the camera. And regardless of the file name.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

JohanElzenga

Community Expert

This is not how it should work. Sorting by capture time is sorting by capture time, regardless of the camera. Did you perhaps stack the photos by camera? In that case the stacks are sorted, not the individual photos.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

ArktogAuthor

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All the RAW files are in their own folders. For example D750 Files are in a Folder marked D750 and so on. And then I drag all these folders into Lightroom. And then whichever photo I need I mark it as 5 star. And then create a smart collection of 5 star photos. Are you saying that all of the RAW photos need to be in a single folder only and then only it'll show photos taken at the same time next to each other regardless of camera?

redsonya66@yahoo.com

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All of the photos in every folder is set to sort by Capture time. Especially in my smart collection. Still It is sorting by capture time camera by camera.

Arktog, did you ever get this issue resolved? I'm now having the same issue where LR Classic is sorting by camera, not capture time. And I synced both camera clocks prior to shooting.

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