Re-dating old photo's

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So I have scanned over 4''' old pictures / negatives.

I want to work on these pictures (do some cleaning on the images itself).

Of many of the photo's I know the date the photo was taken.

Is there an easy way to batch re-date these photo's.

And is it possible to re-date the file to the original date the picture was taken ?

Most photo's are taken between 1975 - 198'.

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Mark Sirota;2'137 said:
Select the images in Grid, then choose "Edit Capture Time..." from the Metadata menu.
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Thank you ! (for welcoming me ;-) )

This edit capture time can be done with multiple at the same time ?

And does this change the file date ?
 
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Yes, you can change multiple images at once. It won't change the file date, it'll change the EXIF (and other?) timestamps in the metadata of the image.

If you use timestamps as part of your filename template, you can then rename the files by hitting F2.

If you want to change the file time as seen by the operating system, someone familiar with Windows would have to help you with that; I don't know how.
 
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Hi Mark,

Thanxs for telling me.

File time stamp will not work in my case. All the pictures I have to time stamp are scanned negatives. The negatives are photo's taken between 1975 and 198'.

The windows system does not allow you to use dates before 198'.

So I'll have to do with the exit time stamp.

thanxs !
 
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Hi T van der Sluijs;
I've got a simmilar problem and I'm wondering if you succeeded with batch renaming.
I couldn't. I scanned thousands of old negs and want to add a date. Sometimes they've got the same date so they can be batch renamed. But when I use "metadata > edit capture time..." it changes the dates of some of the files, but not all of them, although all are selected.
Do you have similar experiences?

regards
Renevg
 
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Renevg, Welcome to LR Forums.

Are you using the 'edit capture time' with the images selected in 'Grid' view, or by using the filmstrip in 'Loupe' view? If it's the first, then it sounds like a bug. If the second method, then the change will affect only the 'most-selected' image.

It's likely you know this already, but it's one possilbe explanation of what you're seeing.
 
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Brad Snyder said:
Renevg, Welcome to LR Forums.

Are you using the 'edit capture time' with the images selected in 'Grid' view, or by using the filmstrip in 'Loupe' view? If it's the first, then it sounds like a bug. If the second method, then the change will affect only the 'most-selected' image.

It's likely you know this already, but it's one possilbe explanation of what you're seeing.
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I never use the filmstrip; it's definitely in grid view that I select several pictures. maybe you can reproduce it by taking a few jpgs from the internet and change all their date tags at once and see how it turns out.
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Renevg

lightroom 2. windowsXP pro.
 
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Ok, it seems to work fine with all my out of camera jpgs. However using assorted jpgs from various sources (junk mail, etc) I've archived over the years, I *do* get strange results. I've been playing for a half hour or so, and I tend to get unpredictable results when changing capture time on multiple images, but sometimes it's fine.

I've tried to correlate it, with embedment in the Exif data block vs the XMP data block, but I'm just getting confused.

Looks like this is a reproducible bug. If you'd like to write it up and submit it to Adobe, the link's at the top of the forum.
 
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Oke Brad;
it 's good to see that I'm not the only one getting bad results. Thanks for your help.
Lightroom obviously isn't ment for images other than from a digital camera. (you can't import bitmaps e.g.).
regards,
Renevg
 
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I've just had to use Lightroom to fix the Exif time in some images I recently took whilst in a differnt time zone - I'd not chnaged it before shooting. This worked well on a batch of modern digital images.

But it's the first time I've used LR to do this. I always used to use exiftool which allows much more powerful manipulation of many different file types.

Gareth
 
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the key issue here is that tvds has analog images, that he's digitized (photos from 1975 - 198'). His solution is that he converts them to DNG. I'm certainly going to try that.
renevg.
 
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I was trying to make the point (though obvioulsy badly!) that exiftool was a really good tool for manipulating EXIF data. I've never tried it on digitised analogue images, but I suspect that it will do this...

regards

Gareth
 
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Oke;
so I tried some more....standalone conversion to DNG didn't work. But with Lightroom it did!
conclusion after some tests:
workaround to batch change capture time in Lightroom until Adobe solves bug: Change files to DNG. Then it works fine...you can selekt all the files you want to change the date of and batch change.

reminder: I didn't manage to change jpg /tiff to DNG during import. So first import jpg/tiff and than export as DNG.

file size:
jpg to DNG: folder with 41 jpegs went up from 114 Mb to 468 Mb.
tiff to DNG: folder with 41 tiffs went down from 561 Mb to 222 Mb. (this with lossless compression at conversion...I can't remember if they were originally LZWcompressed).

So if you have tiff files it's worth giving it a try.

And of course the EXIFtool mentioned by Snapper might be handy.
I'm going to give it a try.

renevg
 
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Exiftool:

I've tried Exiftool and could change some time stamps, but even after Synchronize files in Lightroom I couldn't see any changes in the exif. Capture time is the best time stamp that needs to be changed so you can sort on Capture time.
Maybe someone else is more succesfull with Exiftool but I choose changing time in Lightroom.

renevg.
 
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