e.a.jack wrote:
If there happens to be more than one picture from either of us with the same timestamp (burst mode), Lightroom is kind enough to automatically add a "-2", "-3", etc. to the end of the file name as needed.
I would avoid that like the plague if I were you, or in any case, if I were me. It (Lr) also appends the same uniqueness resolver when renaming the same photo when it gets a brain malfliction, or when exporting... may make exported filename look same as a different file which would have the same name... Better to control filename completely, both import and export, in my not so humble opinion. (if I had my way, there would be an option for "never ever resolve filenaming problems (whether import, export, or file renaming...) by way of an auto-uniqueness suffix - always warn me instead, since it indicates a problem in my way of working").
But hey, to each their own and all...
e.a.jack wrote:
I found that our camera clocks are off by a few minutes. So while we are shooting the same subjects, the photos when sorted by time/filename are slightly out of sync. Second, if we are shooting different things at the same time, the library will have an odd intermixing of both shoots. I suppose all this can be easilly worked around with the use of filteing and collections.
I solve this problem by including photographers initials after the date, thus keeping each day's separated by photographer (when sorting alphabetically).
e.g.
YYYY_MM_DD_XX_HHMMSS...
If that's not "intimate enough" for you, then you have no choice but to synchronize capture time. In other words, if you want photos from different cameras intermixed and ordered correctly by capture time, then capture time must be same on each. It can be done after the fact quite simply by figuring the offset, then adjusting all those from one camera by offset amount. If you think about it ahead of time, a simple way to do that is by "simultaneously" shooting a watch or clock (since that nails down the "exact" offset). If you don't think about it ahead of time, then it's a little trickier...
Food for thought anyway, if nothing else...
R