Post by BuckSkin on Nov 9, 2021 9:52:56 GMT
If you don't already have and use ExifToolGUI, you should give it a try.
exiftool.org/gui/
ExifToolGUI is ExifTool via a Graphic User Interface and I would hate to do without it.
It can write data into RAW files as easily and accurately as jpegs.
I have used a lot of different time-setting tools in various programs over the years; but, the time-adjust feature in ExifToolGUI tops them all by a long shot.
With it, you can specify how much to adjust timestamps to a whole batch of files by the year, month, day, hour, minute, and second.
By adjust, I mean move each separate files timestamp by an incremental amount; the specified difference will be added or subtracted from each individual files current timestamp.
Sunday, after the big aggravating annoying time change (at least we went back to sensible standard time - I wish we would stay there), I put in most of my day adjusting various clocks, timers, cameras, and what not.
I learned a new trick about changing the time on my 7DMkII and wanted to put it to a test to see just how it all comes about and to familiarize myself with the process so maybe I would remember it next time changing day.
I purposefully changed the clock by several days, hours, minutes, and seconds away from the actual time.
My intention was to step outside, achieve a satellite lock, and let it do it's thing; no photos were supposed to be involved.
I stepped off the porch and was looking a deer right in the eye, about fifteen feet from me.
To heck with this wrong time business; I swung the camera to my eye and snapped a couple shots before he hid on the other side of a livestock trailer.
As I was sneaking around to see him again, I looked in the space between truck and trailer and he was looking right back at me = more pictures.
I continued to sneak around the end of the trailer and managed to get a couple more shots before he went high tail and took off.
I held the trigger down and kept firing until he disappeared into the woods by the house and started snorting at me.
Deer gone and excitement over and I went back to the time setting business at hand.
Of course now, all of my deer pictures have wrong timestamps; I didn't even know how much wrong as I had just set a random wrong time for my experiment.
Back in the house --- before I did my satellite time trick and lost where I was at --- I made note of the camera time and computer time and wrote it all down.
SD card in the reader, I used ExifToolGUI to adjust the timestamps in the RAW files, right down to the second.
Timestamps put back to rights; now, I could use DIM to time-name them and offload them to the computer.
I don't know if any other software I have could have performed such an accurate maneuver on a batch of RAW files.
I will post some screenshots of the ExifToolGUI time-adjust dialogue when the picture-putter-in-a-post thingie starts working again.
exiftool.org/gui/
ExifToolGUI is ExifTool via a Graphic User Interface and I would hate to do without it.
It can write data into RAW files as easily and accurately as jpegs.
I have used a lot of different time-setting tools in various programs over the years; but, the time-adjust feature in ExifToolGUI tops them all by a long shot.
With it, you can specify how much to adjust timestamps to a whole batch of files by the year, month, day, hour, minute, and second.
By adjust, I mean move each separate files timestamp by an incremental amount; the specified difference will be added or subtracted from each individual files current timestamp.
Sunday, after the big aggravating annoying time change (at least we went back to sensible standard time - I wish we would stay there), I put in most of my day adjusting various clocks, timers, cameras, and what not.
I learned a new trick about changing the time on my 7DMkII and wanted to put it to a test to see just how it all comes about and to familiarize myself with the process so maybe I would remember it next time changing day.
I purposefully changed the clock by several days, hours, minutes, and seconds away from the actual time.
My intention was to step outside, achieve a satellite lock, and let it do it's thing; no photos were supposed to be involved.
I stepped off the porch and was looking a deer right in the eye, about fifteen feet from me.
To heck with this wrong time business; I swung the camera to my eye and snapped a couple shots before he hid on the other side of a livestock trailer.
As I was sneaking around to see him again, I looked in the space between truck and trailer and he was looking right back at me = more pictures.
I continued to sneak around the end of the trailer and managed to get a couple more shots before he went high tail and took off.
I held the trigger down and kept firing until he disappeared into the woods by the house and started snorting at me.
Deer gone and excitement over and I went back to the time setting business at hand.
Of course now, all of my deer pictures have wrong timestamps; I didn't even know how much wrong as I had just set a random wrong time for my experiment.
Back in the house --- before I did my satellite time trick and lost where I was at --- I made note of the camera time and computer time and wrote it all down.
SD card in the reader, I used ExifToolGUI to adjust the timestamps in the RAW files, right down to the second.
Timestamps put back to rights; now, I could use DIM to time-name them and offload them to the computer.
I don't know if any other software I have could have performed such an accurate maneuver on a batch of RAW files.
I will post some screenshots of the ExifToolGUI time-adjust dialogue when the picture-putter-in-a-post thingie starts working again.
