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Thanks Jean-François, I think you are right that adding a sequence
number is the better solution. However I still don't understand why
seconds are not available for edit.<br>
<br>
Thanks<br>
Mick<br>
<br>
On 27/02/13 08:05, Jean-François Rabasse wrote:
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Hi Mick,
<br>
<br>
<br>
On Tue, 26 Feb 2013, Mick Sulley wrote:
<br>
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">The EXIF data displayed on the right hand
panel shows Date and Time (original) as date plus time in hours,
minutes and seconds. When I try to edit EXIF data I can change
the date and the hours and minutes, but there does not seem to
be any way to change the seconds.
<br>
<br>
Is there a way to edit the seconds?
<br>
<br>
The reason for this is that I use date and time to rename
pictures, and I have some that were shot with APS film, then
processed to CD, and all pictures have 00 as the seconds, so I
am getting duplicate file names where multiple pictures were
taken within the same minute, so I want to edit the seconds on
these files.
<br>
<br>
Also there is a tick box and field for Original sub-second, what
does this mean? I cannot find it in the manual.
<br>
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Sub-seconds is an Exif tag that has been added to allow a more
accurate
<br>
time definition that the second.
<br>
The reason was that standard Exif DateTimeOriginal (tag 0X9003) is
a text field limited to 20 characters including a trailing zero.
<br>
So you can store 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MN:SS', 19 characters, nothing
more.
<br>
The subseconds adds a decimal part to seconds, SS.nnn
<br>
<br>
But as far as I known, very few software handle that and in most
cases,
<br>
one needs to process such kinds of renaming 'by hand', with
command line
<br>
tools.
<br>
<br>
Anyway, renaming based on datetime stamp only may not be always a
good
<br>
strategy. If you edit seconds, you'll solve your immediate
problem, yes,
<br>
but there are several cases where renaming - even with valid
seconds -
<br>
will produce duplicates. E.g.
<br>
- images shot with the camera in burst mode. Most cameras can
record 3
<br>
or 4 images per second.
<br>
- images collected from several cameras and users. (Typical case
is some
<br>
social event as a wedding. When the bride and bridegroom say Yes,
it last 10 seconds and when you are the one in charge of the
photos albums, you often collect 150 images from all the guests,
for that 10 seconds:-)
<br>
<br>
Why not considering adding a sequence number after your date ?
<br>
<br>
Regards,
<br>
Jean-François<br>
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