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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Digital Image Processing => Topic started by: Photolandscape on February 18, 2008, 11:08:25 am

Title: Changing Date in Metadata
Post by: Photolandscape on February 18, 2008, 11:08:25 am

A couple of  years ago, when I had my first heavy-duty digital camera, a Canon 1Ds, I never took the time to fully program everything, including the correct date. As a result, the dates recorded in my metadata during the first several weeks of shooting, are way off.

I like to keep my files in correct order, and wondered if there is some way to correct the dates in the files? If so, could someone explain how to do it--via CS2 or some other program? Thanks.

Title: Changing Date in Metadata
Post by: Ken Rahaim on February 19, 2008, 11:18:05 pm

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A couple of  years ago, when I had my first heavy-duty digital camera, a Canon 1Ds, I never took the time to fully program everything, including the correct date. As a result, the dates recorded in my metadata during the first several weeks of shooting, are way off.

I like to keep my files in correct order, and wondered if there is some way to correct the dates in the files?

Phil Harvey's exiftool (http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/) will do it. Its a command line utility so it takes a bit of reading and learning to use.