iPhoto 08 can now edit EXIF Capture Date

Does it use IPTC for other matadata?

I too have found that 'new and improved' feature in iPhoto8 and I am NOT happy! What a mistake (bug?) THAT is!!

* Guy

It's a mistake to me cuz I used to slip pictures from one old roll to a newer one, and used the newer date as a reference. But the EXIF data always tld me the actual date of the picture and that was yet another parameter I appreciated very much when sorting within that roll by date.

*Guy

Thats great news, its means you wont be locked in to iPhoto for ever if something better comes along!

That was one of the things I was concerned about changing over to iPhoto from PC Elements.

Hi everybody,

I just tried the new iPhoto and also installed the update (7.0.1). iPhoto was updating my database at the first launch and I began changing the EXIF date on some of my photos since that's something I wanted to do for a long time. For example, an event was on 4/6/2005 and some images inside are from 1/1/2001 since there were several cameras used and one of them had its date set wrong.
Now to my problem which is the reason why I searched & found this thread:

I changed the date and time successfully and also checked the box to make the changes to the originals. Before continuing I wanted to make sure that everything works fine. So I created a 2nd iPhoto database by launching iPhoto again with the alt key. I imported the event into this empty database by dragging and dropping it from the Finder. To my surprise all my changes are gone as if I never made any, the year 2001 images were all back! So I created another database, but this time I went to my original database and did a drag & drop of all the event's images to a folder on my Desktop. Importing this folder to my empty database results in my changes being retained!

Why is this happening? Could it be that it's because I had my previous iPhoto set to NOT copy the photos into the Library when importing them?

Thanks
Björn

+In addition to the Capture Date iPhoto 08 will write the Title to the IPTC Title field, the original file name to the Headline field, the Comments to the Description field and the keywords to the Keyword field upon exporting. The keywords and titles can be turned of for the export. The others are automatic.+

Even better, it reads all those fields during import, too, and copies them into the iPhoto database! Very nice.

Will it create an exif header for a scanned jpeg? I think this is a good feature!

Sorry for "hijacking" this thread, I found the solution. I keep regular backups of my iPhoto Library so I went back to some of them just to try out. The problem is the 2 settings of iPhoto are "colliding". If you have set it to NOT copy your images into the Library when importing (Advanced Preferences), iPhoto creates its normal Library structure, but the "Originals" folder contains aliases to your original files. So when changing the date your original won't get the changes since you "told" iPhoto to not mess with your original files.

Well, since I like the new iPhoto I changed my preferences to copy when importing and all is well. 🙂

Thank you!
Björn

Now that's a handy feature.

When our baby daughter was born last year, for some reason the date was wrong on the camera I initially used to take photos,m so I should be able to correct that now.

AC

Be warned though that iPhoto 08 will drop exif data (that it does not understand?) from the pictures.

Before:

$ exiv2 IMG_0213.JPG
File name : IMG_0213.JPG
File size : 1999432 Bytes
Camera make : Canon
Camera model : Canon DIGITAL IXUS 50
Image timestamp : 2005:07:07 09:34:18
Image number : 102-0213
Exposure time : 1/125 s
Aperture : F4.9
Exposure bias : 0
Flash : No, auto
Flash bias : 0 EV
Focal length : 17.4 mm
Subject distance: 6553
ISO speed : 50
Exposure mode : Easy shooting (Auto)
Metering mode : Multi-segment
Macro mode : Off
Image quality : Fine
Exif Resolution : 2592 x 1944
White balance : Auto
Thumbnail : JPEG, 7745 Bytes
Copyright :
Exif comment :

After:

$ exiv2 IMG_0213.JPG
Error: Directory Makernote with 4864 entries considered invalid; not read.
Warning: Failed to read Makernote, rc = 6
File name : IMG_0213.JPG
File size : 1988414 Bytes
Camera make : Canon
Camera model : Canon DIGITAL IXUS 50
Image timestamp : 2005:07:07 09:34:19
Image number :
Exposure time : 1/125 s
Aperture : F4.9
Exposure bias : 0
Flash : No, auto
Flash bias :
Focal length : 17.4 mm
Subject distance:
ISO speed :
Exposure mode :
Metering mode : Multi-segment
Macro mode :
Image quality :
Exif Resolution : 2592 x 1944
White balance :
Thumbnail : None
Copyright :
Exif comment :

That's not good. Is anyone else seeing htis? And is it only when changing the info, or does it drop it regardless?