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Paul Lantz
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August 17, 2019
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Lightroom classic changes capture date and time when saving metadata to file

  • August 17, 2019
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I am using Lightroom Classic 8.4 release under Windows 10.

I have noticed that LR sometimes changes the capture date and time for photographs when it saves metadata to file.

Typically, I may have a photo with no caption information; I add the caption and perhaps copyright data and then save metadata to file. The capture date and time are changed to the current date and time. This happens the first time I save metadata to file; subsequent saves (e.g. with further changes to caption) do not change the capture date and time.

This does not happen always; mainly with older photographs.

I have attached screenshots of before and after saving metadata for a digital photograph taken in 1998. When I saved metadata to file the capture date and time were changed to the current date and time.

I have seen some older discussions about this but I had never noticed the issue until recently. I often keep the capture date in the file name so I can repair some of the damage but wonder if there is a simpler way to ensure that capture date and time are not changed until done so explicitly by the user.

thanks for your help

Paul

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Just Shoot Me
Just Shoot Me
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August 17, 2019

This is a scan from a film negative or slide. In that case there was no digital Capture date placed on the scan when it was scanned. So LR uses the File, that is the FILE, date and time as the capture date and time.

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Paul LantzAuthor
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August 17, 2019

no, it is from a digital camera (early one with low resolution).

but the problem seems to happen mostly with older digital camera pictures and only happens the first time metadata is aved

it does give option to change date and time to file creation date and time

Just Shoot Me
Just Shoot Me
Legend
August 18, 2019

OK there is an option in LR to change the capture date and time. If you use that option to properly set the capture date/time it will not change again. What is shown in LR by Date Time Original and Data Time Digitized will be the Capture date and time.

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