Hello goldfish-ga
Firstly I emailed Canon USA support, and got this reply from Canon
eCare:
“Thank you for your inquiry.
Unfortunately the time can not be altered by any of the software that
is supplied with the camera.
Thank you for your interest in Canon. We look forward to assisting
you
in the future.
Sincerely,
(Name removed to protect identity)
Product Support Representative”
I believe the ZoomBrowser EX software ‘must’ be reading the EXIF data
which is the ‘invisible’ data that a digital cameras write to a photo
such as date, time, shutter speed, aperture, even GPS co-ordinates
with cameras so equipped!
- I found two EXIF editors
Robophoto
http://www.robophoto.com/exif.html
and
http://www.photools.com/imexif.html
“The built-in EXIF editor allows you to view all EXIF fields contained
in the image. In case of date/time fields, you also can update the
information stored in the file without recompressing the image.”
- The former seems to be explained better than the latter.
So I will focus on this one.
If you go to page
http://www.robophoto.com/exif.html
and click the ‘General tab’on the menu graphic
( http://www.robophoto.com/exif.html#top2 ) you will see the EXIF data
contains various information, here you can edit the date and time for
all three date time fields.
“Date/Time” “Time Original” “Time Digitized” if you wish. (I’m not
sure which date the ZoomBrowser software uses... perhaps you can
experiment) Clicking on the ‘Camera’ (
http://www.robophoto.com/exif.html#top3 ) tab displays other
photographic data such as the shutter speed and aperture used, if you
used flash, and the zoom position of the lens etc.
By editing the data, any application that uses the EXIF data to
display the time of the photo will see the edited time.
The site offers a 30 day working demo
http://www.robophoto.com/download.html
Once you launch you need to click the bottom right square icon on the
startup splash screen which will throw up a pop up menu, you need to
select “Images > EXIF Editor” then browse for your images folder, then
select the picture you want to edit the EXIF data for.
If it works, you can purchase the product at $34.95 USD which seems
very reasonable considering EXIF editing is not the program’s main
function, it also automatically generates webpage galleries for you.
Though I suspect there is either a bug in the software as my EXIF year
is reported in the first instance as 2001 and not 2002 (or maybe
something is wrong with my camera) or the demo version of the software
writes is as 2001. But after editing changing it to 2002 it is OK.
(but maybe that is just my camera setting.... I need to check!)
The other program is shareware but is more difficult to explain.
- If the ZoomBrowser software uses the date generated by the EXIF data
when you first load the photos in and ‘embeds the original date’ into
the ZoomBrowser, then even if you change the EXIF data for the photo,
ZoomBrowser ‘might’ still associate the updated EXIF photo with the
old date.
This would possibly mean you would have to reload or re-import all the
modified EXIF data photos into a fresh ZoomBrowser ‘set’ or ‘gallery’
so ZoomBrowser can see the new updated EXIF data.
Search Strategy
"exif editor" OR "exif editors"
://www.google.com/search?q=%22exif+editor%22+OR+%22exif+editors%22&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&start=20&sa=N
I hope that helps,
If you need any clarification please ask,
Kind regards
lot-ga |
