Bonjour, For some photos the date underneath each photo is correct, for other it is wrong (31/12/1979 !!!) See http://noellathomas.free.fr/Fichiers/DigiKam_1.png: import window with wrong and right dates Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Using the CF memory card of my CANON PowerShot G3 camera, inserted in my flash card reader. 2. 3. Actual Results: http://noellathomas.free.fr/Fichiers/DigiKam_1.png: import window with wrong and right dates Expected Results: Having the shooting date underneath each photo, the only date interesting the photographer !! Having photos (including panorama photos) and videos sorted by shooting date http://noellathomas.free.fr/Fichiers/DigiKam_3.png: video incorrectly sorted http://noellathomas.free.fr/Fichiers/DigiKam_4.png: panorama photos incorrectly sorted Having the possibility to import photos in a folder automatically named with the shooting date Having the possibility to give a name to each imported photo, the name being: - shooting_date_time.extension or - a prefix typed_number.extension The name given by a camera is meaningless (img8521). The date of the file is meaningless. Considering dates, the shooting date is the most important date for the photographer. DigiKam must allow to choose the shooting date for displaying and sorting photos. This can be done with several other applications.
1/ you must take a look to 4.0.0 releas where a lots of improvement/fixes have been done in Import tool. 2/ Look into Camera config setup panel. There is an option to use image metadata instead file time stamp to populate import icon-view. This require more time to parse items from camera device, but in this case date is taken from Exif and Markernotes. I use it to filter my high speed shots from my Sony A77 (12 images/s)... Gilles Caulier
Thank you Gilles for your answer. I am migrating from 12 (???) years using Windows XP to Kubuntu 14, a tough job and many things to learn and problems to solve ... I am not about to give up !!! I am about (to learn how) to update DigiKam. I got DigiKam 3.5.0 when installing Kubuntu. Pierre
Bonjour Gilles, I updated DigiKam to 4.0.0 version (I succeeded ...). Now it is OK: in the import window, dates displayed are correct: - date underneath each photo, - both dates on the right when a photo is selected. From my understanding, in the import window it is still impossible: - to sort files (photos, videos, panorama photos) by shooting date (for selecting files easily) - to import files in a folder created automatically for each shooting date (folder name would be shooting date) - to rename files automatically (shooting date and time or typed prefix +number) this would facilitate the job of the photographer !! Pierre
>- to sort files (photos, videos, panorama photos) by shooting date (for selecting files easily) Look in View/Short by Date menu. Work fine here... >- to import files in a folder created automatically for each shooting date (folder name would be shooting date) Work fine here. I use option from Settings panel from right sidebar. Option is "Auto-creation of Albums" and sub-option is "Date-based sub-abums". I use ISO format. >- to rename files automatically (shooting date and time or typed prefix +number) this would facilitate the job of the photographer !! This option exist but it still a problem reported in these entries : https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=329438 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=322539 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307253 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=314441 Gilles Caulier
Bonjour Gilles, Thank you for your answer. I had to look for the numerous options of DigiKam ... Everything is OK except renaming files, I hope this option will be corrected soon. Pierre
Yes, renaming still has a problem. This is already reported in another file from bugzilla. Gilles Caulier