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May 17, 2010 06:27 |  #1

So I got to shoot an event today with two camera's (I normally only have one). And it got me wondering what would be a good way to organize and store 2 or more camera's files efficiently utilizing lightroom.

Any tips on dealing with multiple camera's file names in efficient manner? Cause I don't want to be wondering if IMG_xxxx is camera A or camera B (without looking in the exif)


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May 17, 2010 10:50 |  #2

sync the date/time on the two camera
use something like dim to import and rename images based on date/time stamp


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May 17, 2010 11:30 as a reply to  @ kenwood33's post |  #3

I regularly shoot with more than one body. The first thing that I do is set a user defined naming in the body (I am using 1 series and not sure if this is available in all). When I get back from a shoot I copy all of the files to one folder and then using a third party application I sort them by shooting time and then rename them using my convention. This is nnnnnn_shoot info_original file name. The nnnnn is a sequential numeric value so that when it come time to delivery to the customer they will only see this. I use Breezebrowser for renaming and it will always remember the last number used so I never worry about doubling up a number. A resulting filename may look like 281834_smithWedding_3d​s7938. I like having the original camera generated file name in the final naming in case I need to start over for some reason. I have another utility that will simply chop off as many characters as I want and then I am left with the original.

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May 17, 2010 12:42 |  #4

I have a 20D and a 5DM2. Since I got the 5D, I've been importing my photos into lightroom with a semi custom name, either EOS20D_{img_XXXX} or EOS5DM2_{img_XXXX}. Nothing spectacular there, but it works for me. That obviously wouldn't do me any good if I had 2 identical bodies...


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May 17, 2010 17:19 |  #5

thanks for the tips guys, keep em coming if anyone else has stuff to add. :D

btw I'm using OSX so windows apps won't do me much good :P


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May 18, 2010 02:44 |  #6

I name my files when I import with a Date_shoot-desc_camera-name_sequence# name. They go into one folder but can be sorted either alphabetically (by camera) or by creation time.


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