I am going through old photos from a camera I used from 1998-2000 which apparently predates the standardized EXIF data we have now. So I am trying to fill in some EXIF data in batches for such things as MAKE & Model of camera as well as setting the EXIF date/times.
First problem:
For editing Make and Model when selecting a batch of photos and right clicking for the contextual menu there are two choices for this...
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In the first one, common values, is shows the picture data/time and in the second it shows the Exif time. When you select a batch of photos there is no way to disable changing the date/time. So for instance I can not simple add a Make and Model camera without changing the entire batch to have the same creation date or exif date.
Second problem:
I am trying to get all the dates and times to match (EXIF, creation, modification) and then I want to update the files names from my old standard
MMDDYY-hh.mm.ss to
YYYY.MM.DD-hh.mm.ss which for my basic saved rename function pull this info from the EXIF. My files names are correct so if there is a difference between the file name and the date/times in the metadata, I want the file name data to be used. So I tried...
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and after doing that, if I go into the rename screen and my source pull down is set to "Exif date", the rename function doesn't see any Exif info so that 040799-22.59.55.jpg is shown that it will be renamed to .jpg so setting EXIF to filename, if it is changing something, is putting that info in some other "exif" field than the rename function uses.
Likewise if my modification date is correct and I try to set my exif to modification data using one of these...
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In the top case pointed at, it works in that the rename function now populated the "change to" file name with source picked as EXIF. However strangely, if I choose the second one pointed to, the rename function show the "change to" as .jpg when using EXIF which means that the "only is no edit data exists" choose thinks there is valid exif data so doesn't make the change yet the rename function doesn't find any exif data.
