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LosFelizGirl
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July 15, 2023
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How do I Update "digital creation date" in Metadata?

  • July 15, 2023
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My camera had the wrong date set, and now all my metadata in my photos do too. How do I change the "digital creation date", that the the date my camera thought it was when i took a batch of photos?

What I have done so far....
I went to the Metadata Menu/edit capture time/ then updated to: July 2, 2023, but that only updated the "date created" time.  See my attachment. 

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johnrellis
johnrellis
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July 16, 2023

The capture date is when the shutter was pressed.  It is stored in:


EXIF:DateTimeOriginal

IPTC:DateCreated/TimeCreated

 

LR's Metadata > Edit Capture Time changes both those fields.

 

When the image was converted to digital form is stored in:

 

EXIF:DateTimeDigitized

IPTC:DigitalCreationDate/DigitalCreationTime

 

For photos created by digital cameras, this is usually the same as the capture date. But for scans, it is the date/time the image was scanned (converted from analog to digital form), not when the shutter was pressed. There is no way to change this field with built-in LR commands -- you'd need the Capture Time To EXIF plugin.

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LosFelizGirlAuthor
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July 16, 2023

Hi. When I went to Metadata>Edit Capture Time to change the date, it only updated the "date created" date.
I don't know if you had the time to check out the screen shot I uploaded, you can see it there.

 

johnrellis
johnrellis
Legend
July 16, 2023

"When I went to Metadata>Edit Capture Time to change the date, it only updated the "date created" date."

 

Right, as I explained, IPTC:DigitalCreationDate/Time is when the image was converted to digital form.  For photos created by digital cameras, this is usually the same as the capture date. But for scans, it is the date/time the image was scanned (converted from analog to digital form), not when the shutter was pressed. There is no way to change this field with built-in LR commands -- you'd need the Capture Time To EXIF plugin.

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