[Digikam-users] No more metadata support in import?

[Maik Qualmann]

Yes, the feature is disabled at the moment. She worked only with non GPhoto2 
devices and makes the real time renaming in the icon view very slow. Let's 
see, maybe I can return it back for digiKam 4.14.

Maik

Am Sonntag, 13. September 2015, 08:11:05 schrieb Andreas Mair:
> Hi,
> 
> for a long time (at least since v3.5.0) accessing metadata by using
> "[meta:Exif...]" in import doesn't work correctly.
> Now I've updated from v4.4.0 to v4.12.0 but now even the "Metadata"
> button in the "import" window is missing and the resulting file names
> show the "[meta:Exif...]" text.
> For me it seems that this feature has been dropped. Is this right?
> Why? Or am I doing something wrong?
> If I use the file name template in the "renamer" tool everything works
> as expected.
> 
> What metadata do I want to use?
> I simply want to get the date and time when the picture has been
> taken. So I use "[meta:Exif.Photo.DateTimeOriginal]". You could say I
> can also use "[date:...]". That's right. But actually I am (or had
> been) not sure what timestamp digiKam actually uses then.
> But with my new camera "[date:...]" won't be enough as it also has
> "[meta:Exif.Photo.SubSecTimeOriginal]". When doing some quickshots
> this value is needed because I have multiple photos per second.
> 
> Best regards,
> Andreas
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