What date is used when importing images?

[Pioter Gmoter]

Hm, is this feature in the mobile phone? Have not ever seen this.

And this apply only to MTP protocol I guess?

P.



W dniu 11.11.2016 o 08:02, Maik Qualmann pisze:
> 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.
>