What date is used when importing images?

[Maik Qualmann]

Enable the option in the camera setup: "Use file metadata (makes connection 
slower)". The date is now used from EXIF.

Maik

On Donnerstag, 10. November 2016 21:51:57 CET Pioter Gmoter wrote:
> Hi
> 
> When I import images with this rule:
> 
> [date:yyyy-MM-dd_hh.mm.ss]{lower}{unique}.[ext]{lower}
> 
> exactly what date is used to make the new name of the image?
> 
> 
> The problem was not visible during import from the device which made the
> photo (camera, phone) but appeared when I was importing using CTRL-ALT-I.
> So I first copied images using dolphin from mobile phone to my hdd, than
> imported such images to NAS using digikam. What I have found was that the
> name of the file had wrong date ie: not the date from the EXIF but the
> modification date of the file. Is it normal? From my point of view not. The
> file itself can have bad date, and I'd like to be sure that digikam uses
> the reliable source of date which means EXIF. So how does  it actually
> work?
 
> 
> Regards
> 
> P.


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Gruß Maik