Time Zone Upon Import
The easiest of course is when you are shooting in your local time zone and the camera time is set properly to match that. However, let's say you are shooting in a different time zone and you have set the camera time to match the correct time in that time zone. When importing, do you have to tell Aperture the correct "Camera Time" and "Actual Time"?
So long as you are properly managing the camera's time, do you even have to mess with the time zone settings in Aperture? Will it just automatically know that you shot in MST?
The reason I ask is that I thought the time zone adjustments were for when you needed to make changes because you didn't set your camera clock and/or time zone properly. This feature lets you correct it after the fact. However, it seems as though you have to do it always. I live on the east coast. I shoot in California, have my camera's time settings set to properly reflect PST and the correct time in California. If I were to import the images, they show up in Aperture with an EST time. Now, it is the EST that would match the correct time in California, i.e. if I shot in California at 10:00 am, the images would show up in Aperture as 1:00 pm EST. This is the correct time, but I want it to say, 10:00 am PST, which is telling me when and where I shot those images. The only way to do this is to make sure that you choose, "Camera Time" = America/Los Angeles and "Actual Time" = America/Los Angeles. This seems ridiculous to have to do every time you shoot images in a different time zone than the one you live in.
On top of that, when I export the image masters for archiving purposes, the date is reflective of the EST, not the PST. What am I supposed to do, change the date and time of all the Masters of images that were shot with the correct time to begin with?
Can someone PLEASE shed some light on the TIME, TIME ZONE, CAMERA TIME, ACTUAL TIME and when to do/how to use these features properly when importing images. It seems like it should be straight forward, yet it continues to throw me for a loop.
Thanks
Message was edited by: macorin
Message was edited by: macorin
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