Real creation date of a picture

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Real creation date of a picture

Postby Aloha » Wed Aug 13, 2014 8:30 am

Hello,

I'm afraid one cannot be sure the date of creation of a picture is really that one shown under DateCreation.
I have found a picture of my daughter sitting outside in a t-shirt and the DateCreation is 29.1.2005, in the middle of the winter, so that that date cannot be right.
The DateLastWrite is the 15.7.2006, in the middle of the summer, but in the year 2006 and not 2005!
I don't see any way to get rid of that problem. Do You?
Best regards

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Re: Real creation date of a picture

Postby Stefan » Wed Aug 13, 2014 11:03 am

What you see is just the timestamp of the file.
Hopefully your picture contains meta data the camera have stored there for you, called EXIF, like "DateTaken".

Google for, or search the forum for 'extract exif'...

You will find results like :
"""
Options / Extract / ExifData
Then restart or refresh-filenames
See the Taken-column to see the Exif's DateTaken
"""
http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?p=5830#p5830



 
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Re: Real creation date of a picture

Postby Aloha » Wed Aug 13, 2014 8:34 pm

Hello,

Thank You very much.
Alas, I presume I have shot some pictures with the wrong date in the camera and I'm afraid the best software cannot guess the right date when the picture was taken.
Regards
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