@Hoggy and
@RikkFlohr: I don’t appear to have the problem you are describing. I have experimented importing a few different images using the new date/time preset and it has retained the original data in the metadata box (screenshot attached); it did not change it to the import date/time.
I'm actually referring to separate fields named as such.. In stock LR, they are visible separately in the "Exif and IPTC" and the "DNG" metadata selectors. I have them combined here using JF's "Metadata Presets" plugin, as shown highlighted in the attached clip. (I'm not sure why your snip of the first set doesn't show it.. Maybe it has something to do with the 'intricacies' of when the renaming is done, or not done. Here, the fields do show up in those separate metadata selectors, but maybe that's because I've gotten into the habit of always doing the renaming after import, to preserve them.)
(You can also see my obscenely long filename in the screenshot. :whistling: That's so all that info can show up when I hover over images in the filmstrip from within any module.)
Actually Hoggy, this isn't a bug but rather by-design. There are no plans to change this behavior.
Rikk, thanks for letting me know that.. And although I'm not trying to argue, I don't understand why that can be the case. If the renaming is done during the import, those fields will
always be the same no matter what - so what would the point be?
I have noticed somewhat recently, that 2 fields started showing up (I don't remember the "Original
RAW Filename" being there early on, at least from within LR). And although I keep meaning to test it, I always end up forgetting to check if at least the RAW counterpart remains the same if renamed during import. Is that the reason that this one started showing up - so it truly DOES keep the raw name, as implied?
Mind you, I'm just trying to understand the rationale for there being such differences between whether renaming is done before vs. after import. I could understand a desire to preserve the name as it was imported, for future renames - but don't understand why they should always end up being the same if renamed
during the import.