Small annoyance I’ve run into: Having 2 photo cameras on a field trip, taking pictures in parallel with them, needing to put pictures in a chronological order (scenario is applicable, for example, in case you go on a trip with some friends and everybody takes pictures using personal camera. You want to create a web gallery with pictures for everyone to look at).
So you have pictures from 2 or more cameras and need to order them.
Solution is pretty straightforward if you’re not afraid to use a command prompt:
Step 1) Download exiftool from here:http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/\~phil/exiftool/
Step 2) Copy all photos in a folder (if you have name collisions just rename some of files - in the end they will have a time stamp as a file name so it doesn’t really matter)
Step 3) Copy exiftool.exe to the same folder
Step 4) Open a command prompt in the folder and issue the following command:
exiftool “-FileName<CreateDate” -d %%Y%%m%%d_%%H%%M%%S%%%%-c.%%%%e *.JPG
The rest is magic :) Files are renamed based on the file date/time inside the exif tag associated with each of the pictures. Now by sorting on the file name you can have the pictures in the order that they were taken.