** Changed in: f-spot
Status: New => Won't Fix
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/277594
Title:
F-Spot modifies GPS, altitude, and original time/date exif fields on
import
Status in F-Spot:
Won't Fix
Status in libexif package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Bug description:
Binary package hint: f-spot
There are a number of bug reports about F-Spot issues concerning
changes to the time/date exif data when importing, but I couldn't find
anything that sounds like what I dealt with. This is on Ubuntu Hardy.
I had about 200 photos on my computer which had been previously copied
from my digital camera and which had been tagged with additional
lat/long/altitude exif data using the package 'gpscorrelate'. After
importing the photos into F-Spot, a number of changes were made to the
exif data:
- Every few photos had their timestamp moved back two hours (this sounds
similar to some of the other bug reports, except that not all photos were
affected).
- All photos which had identical lat/long/altitude data (meaning, they were
taken in the same place) had their original date/time exif field changed to
that of the earliest timestamp. In other words, photos that were taken in one
place over the course of an hour all had their timestamp changed to the
timestamp of the very first photo taken in that location.
- Some of the gps and altitude data was wiped or garbled. Again, this didn't
happen to all the photos and there didn't seem to be a pattern, but some photos
altitude was set to '0', decimal points went missing in lat/long coordinates,
or the values were simply changed.
Net result, one big mess and several hours of using jhead and
gpscorrelate to fix everything. I suppose I brought this on myself by
checking the "write metadata to disk" option, but persistent tagging
of photos was the whole reason I wanted to try F-Spot.
Let me know if I can clarify anything else or provide more
information.
Cheers,
Adam
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