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- Sep 28, 2008
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- Tacoma, WA
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- Lightroom Version Number
- 10.2
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I've only been working in LrC with digital camera images, and capture date assignment is automatic. I use YYYY-MM-DD_original-file-name for my naming convention, and then sort in Library in capture date order.
Shortly, I will be working with about 8000 scanned images. For about 75% of them, I know the capture date within a month or two. For the rest, I may not even know the year. My digital image naming convention doesn't seem as useful. I'm curious about how others who have worked with a large quantity of scanned images handle this?
With respect to capture date (for scanned images), I'm wondering if there is a way to avoid having to adjust each image manually to something as close to the actual date as I can determine. I'm hoping that the scanning service scanned a given set of negatives (sent to them separated by film roll and I'll get the images back named by roll ) in the order I had placed the negatives in the envelope (by negative #, which translates into chronological order). If so, then I could use LR's batch capture date change capability, since that would increment the capture date setting by the difference in time of scan. How do others handle this in a somewhat efficient way?
Shortly, I will be working with about 8000 scanned images. For about 75% of them, I know the capture date within a month or two. For the rest, I may not even know the year. My digital image naming convention doesn't seem as useful. I'm curious about how others who have worked with a large quantity of scanned images handle this?
With respect to capture date (for scanned images), I'm wondering if there is a way to avoid having to adjust each image manually to something as close to the actual date as I can determine. I'm hoping that the scanning service scanned a given set of negatives (sent to them separated by film roll and I'll get the images back named by roll ) in the order I had placed the negatives in the envelope (by negative #, which translates into chronological order). If so, then I could use LR's batch capture date change capability, since that would increment the capture date setting by the difference in time of scan. How do others handle this in a somewhat efficient way?