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Question about EXIF data weirdness(back to index)Hi all! This has nothing to do with folderblog but I can't seem to find an answer anywhere else. I have a series of pictures taken with a Canon 300D digital camera, and while all of the pictures in my archive have the correct EXIF data, this particular set of pictures have the capture date and time all screwed up. I've tried to edit the EXIF info to rectify the problem, but nothing seems to work... I've tried iView, Photoshop, EXIFRenamer... it's like the files just won't save the information I'm giving them. Does anyone have any kind of a possible explanation for this behavior? Thank you kindly!
posted by Denis Heraud on 20 Dec 05 at 10:50 AM
I forgot to mention that the files are .CRW, RAW format of course.
posted by Denis Heraud on 20 Dec 05 at 10:51 AM
I already did a lot of raw programming of EXIF / IPTC / etc., and the most likely reason seems to me that somehow the header part of the image files got screwed up. Why this happened, I cant tell. What you could do in turn is manually noting down all EXIF data, manually erase any existing header information with a program and create a new one. Usually works, although quite some work.
The problem is that IPTC, EXIF and alike are stored in a specific section of an image file. This section is determined by certain starting and ending points. If there is any error with these, you immediately get the behaviour you described.
posted by
ikue on 20 Dec 05 at 5:41 PM
Thank you very much for the info ikue, I'm not really sure how to go about doing all this manually... I can't believe there isn't a program that exists to repair these files. A darn shame!
posted by Denis Heraud on 29 Dec 05 at 7:43 PM
