EXIF data in Mac OS X Finder

I just looked at the EXIF data for one of my photos in Affinity Photo, and noticed that the date/time shown in the Date shot field matches the time that the Finder shows for creation date. If you click on the Desktop to get Finder focus, press command-F. This brings up a Finder Find window. Click on the Kind button, and all the way at the bottom is Other. These are Finder items you can enable, and many are camera related. Here is an example of showing sorted images of all Nokia N9 photos taken on Feb 7 2014.

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Go to Finder, then command - J, and set the sort to Date Created.

The problem with 'Created Date' and .JPG files is that once you copy them to another folder, the 'Created Date' is now the date you did the copy, not the original Date Taken.

Apple, if you're listening, please ask Microsoft how they do this. In Windows I only had to right-click the column header and select 'Date Taken' and there is my column with the original date as it came out of the camera, even if it has been copied. With what I paid for my brand new (first) Mac, I don't think I should have to write a script to get this info.

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Thanks, Eric.

I did submit this to Apple Feedback.

I find it somewhat interesting that 'Get Info' does show the name of the camera, shutter speed, aperture and focal length. They had to get that stuff from the image file. It's hard to fathom how someone at Apple just made the decision that 'Date/Time Taken' wouldn't be important to anyone! :-)

Thanks again,

Doug

You are welcome.