Time shift, how?

[jlabel]

I have two cameras and I sometimes work with the both of them on social events, when I get home I notice that the second camera has a time difference of 3 minutes, and when I put all the images in one folder and sort it by date it gets all messed up. Do you know if there is any software that can shift capture time by minutes? I know Lightroom can do it by hours, but hours wont do.

[masp]

A little off-topic, but did the cameras shift time again after you reset their clocks?

[Iguanasan]

Sorry, I don't have an answer for this one. I'm a programmer so the geek in me things you should be able to write some code to query the time, add 3 minutes, and then save it back out into the EXIF to solve this. Of course, you would have to be able to identify which ones were the ones you needed to add time. Are then all now in the same folder? What about image names? They are usually auto-generated so you could pull the two sets apart.

Then, and this is not a recommendation as I just Googled it, you could try a product like this: Rellik Software reviews and free downloads (http://exif-date-changer.rellik-software.qarchive.org/)

Good luck!

[russ]

Why not just make sure the time is synchronized on both cameras?

[jlabel]

russ, its because sometimes we do a photowalk, with like 30 people and we all have the same starting time, so we know that each participant have the first photo taken at a certain time, but their cameras might be offset a little, its not about just two cameras and we cant pick each camera and adjust the clock, some people wont allow or dont know how to do that.
And yes we know that a certain batch of photos are offset, but we dont know how to repair that.

[jlabel]

Thanks Iguanasan, I think that relik software will do the trick just fine, and actually takes care of raw file as well, thanks

[Iguanasan]

Thanks Iguanasan, I think that relik software will do the trick just fine, and actually takes care of raw file as well, thanks

You're welcome. Let me know how it works out. I might find it useful myself some day :)

[russ]

russ, its because sometimes we do a photowalk, with like 30 people and we all have the same starting time, so we know that each participant have the first photo taken at a certain time, but their cameras might be offset a little, its not about just two cameras and we cant pick each camera and adjust the clock, some people wont allow or dont know how to do that.
And yes we know that a certain batch of photos are offset, but we dont know how to repair that.

that is most certainly not the scenario you originally described.