John
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 22:23:24 -0500 (EST), John Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Tom Lesser mused:
When I use the finder on my Mac (OS X) to open the DCIM > 100PENTX folder on a CF card shot in my *istD, and select a RAW file in list view, the column headed "Date Modified" shows the actual date and time that the photo was shot; the column headed "Date Created" says "Dec 31, 1903" ....... I would have expected "Date Created" to show the date and time the photo was shot, and the "Date Modified" to be empty or show the actual creation date, too.
Date Created should show when the file was created. This could be set from an existing file, if copied, or it would reflect the date that the file was imported into the system.
Date Modified reflects when the contents of the file were modifed.
The two dates start off the same on the CF card (and if I look at the files using a file browser on Windows I see that). If the Mac shows something different in the file browser, It's probably a MAC problem.
"Dec 31, 1903" is too early a date to have a meaningful representation
on most computer file systems. I suspect this really means "I don't know"
In the Metadata panel of Photoshop CS, before you select an image in the browser, the fields available are "Date Created" and "Date Modified," but when you select a RAW image, the "Date Created" field disappears completely, and the "Date Modified" shows the actual creation date & time.
Presumably Photoshop is trying to do something clever and get the image creation date from the EXIF data. Unfortunately it's trying to be too clever - it doesn't know how to get data from RAW files. (I assume you *do* have the appropriate version of ACR installed)
Photoshop Elements 3.0 on Windows shows the correct metadata.
If you select a RAW file from the finder and do a "Get Info" command, the Info window shows two dashes "--" in the "Created" field, and shows the actual date and time the photo was made in the "Modified" field.
That's probably another way of saying "I don't know"
Re: JPG files, Photoshop Browser shows correct Created and Modified dates/times, as do the Finder window and Get Info window.
So Photoshop does know how to get the data from the JPEG files. That's not really surprising - several file browsers know that.
Why are dates and times wrong for RAW files? Is it a Pentax issue, a Mac issue, or a Photoshop issue?
Looks like a Mac and/or Photoshop problem.
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