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Setting the date and time - 5D Tutorial
From the course: Canon 5D Mark III Essential Training
Setting the date and time
Your camera has a clock and calendar in it. Every time you take a picture, the date and time are stored in the resulting image file. This can be really handy when you're editing, not just to find out when you took a picture, but for sorting your images, or searching for image shot on a particular day, but also for geo-tagging your images. With the right hardware and software, you can add longitude and latitude data to your images in postproduction, but for all of that to work, you have to have the camera's clock set properly. To change the date and time, just drop into the cameras menuing system by hitting the Menu button. Press the Q button to work your way over to the setup category; that's the little wrench. And then use the joystick here to go to the second page; you'll see Date/Time/Zone. I'm going to turn the wheel to get down there, hit the Set button, and here you can see that I've properly set my date and time already. The way this works is I just use the wheel to change from…
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