5 Replies Latest reply: Jul 4, 2007 7:26 AM by (BogdanH) RSS

    Capture Time not listed in Metadata Panel

    Matthew A Kraus Community Member
      I have imported some photos from my wife's camera into a folder in LR1.1. Normally on the right side in the metadata panel, there is a capture time for photos. Capture Time is not even listed as an option in the metadata panel for these photos. I assume there was a problem with date being set in her camera. Nevertheless, how can I add the correct date to these photos if "capture time" is not even an option to work with? It's not that the capture time is incorrrect or blank, capture time is not even listed as an option where it usually is.

      Thanks,
      Matthew Kraus
        • 1. Re: Capture Time not listed in Metadata Panel
          Community Member
          I believe that is now listed as 'Date Time Original' in Metadata. You can edit Capture Time under Menu/Metadata/Edit Capture Time...

          Don
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          • 2. Re: Capture Time not listed in Metadata Panel
            Matthew A Kraus Community Member
            Thanks Don. That anwered it for me.

            Matthew Kraus
            • 3. Re: Capture Time not listed in Metadata Panel
              lalittle Community Member
              Is this the field that shifts by an hour every time you go on or off of Daylight Savings Time, or is this something different?

              Also, are you saying that LR refers to the same field with different names in different places -- i.e. does "Edit Capture Time" actually edit "Date Time Original"? If so, why use two different names for the same field?

              Thanks,

              Larry
              • 4. Re: Capture Time not listed in Metadata Panel
                Casamagnolia-wSzxs8 Community Member
                Personally, I would not use Edit Capture Time in LR until and if I am assured by multiple people that it now works properly on all image types, including those with and without an EXIF section. In 1.0 it did not work properly. I will live with improper display in LR and set my capture times in another application, if need be (like scans), before loading them into LR.

                They are still using two names for the "same" thing? Shame on them. It wasn't clear to me that it was the "same" thing though. There were/are too many bugs to figure out what they mean by these words. There are MANY date/time fields in the metadata standards and they are not used consistently by all products.

                Elements 5 did it correctly. And had partial dates. But those dates did not load into LR correctly. Dates are screwed up in LR so I don't fiddle with them there.

                I really expected this to be fixed. How hard can it be! They did what would appear to be much more difficult things in 1.1, but they left the date/time bugs. Shame on them!
                • 5. Re: Capture Time not listed in Metadata Panel
                  Community Member
                  In short... exif contains three DateTime values, where LR shows:
                  Exif:ModifyDate->LR:Time
                  Exif:DateTimeOriginal->LR:CaptureTime (can be shown with thumbnails)
                  Exif:CreateDate->LR:DateTimeDigitized

                  Now, if you have image taken on (for example) 20th January at 8:00AM (winter time), and you import that image now (summer time), Lightroom will show you as photo were taken at 9:00AM (all three DateTime labels are one hour off).
                  If importing would be done in wintwr time (same as photo taken), DateTime values would be shown correct.

                  Bogdan