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

[Andreas Mair]

OK, thanks for the information.

Regards,
Andreas

2015-09-13 11:57 GMT+02:00 Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin at gmail.com>:
> 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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