Photo dates all the same 2002 / New gear (NOT A BUG)

[discusws]

Hello Pekka,

I couldn't find it so here what I found:

All photo's are showing a wrong "shooting date: 2002-02-27 "

found problem with new gear. I had to selct text in black part to change the name :)

regards Walter

ps
great peace of work upgrade whent smooth :)

[Pekka]

All photo's are showing a wrong "shooting date: 2002-02-27 "

Do you mean the date itself is wrong or the date display type is wrong? GLobal settings has display type setting.

[discusws]

Hello Peka,

below all my photo's is a line with:

photographer: Walter Soestbergen | shooting date: 2002-02-27 | country: Netherlands etc etc etc

All shooting dates are set at (see above) a date in the past while I am expecting a upload date or something.

look at this one as a sample!

http://www.foto-hobby.nl/gallery/photo.php?photo=181&exhibition=2&ee_lang=eng&u=52,6

shot 2 weeks ago and uploaded after upgrade
regards Walter

[Pekka]

Question is: was EXIF activated in EE and available in uploaded image?
If you still have those photos in upload folder, open server tools editor, click "CHANGE TO DIRECTORY 'UPLOAD'" and then choose a photo and click "VIEW COMBINED CAMERA DATA". Do you see a correct date/time on resulted page?

[discusws]

Hello Pekka,

EXIF was on but no exif info in photo's :(

Maybe I didn't had this line available in version 1.54 will look if I can set it off will solf the problem :)

regards Walter

[Pekka]

In bottom of photo editor you can re-import exif and choose which items are imported (no point override e.g. header).

[cferrero]

Does EE strip out the EXIF data when you upload images in a zip? When I upload images one-by-one the EXIF is definitely preserved, but when I upload as part of a zip the EXIF data goes missing...?

[Pekka]

Does EE strip out the EXIF data when you upload images in a zip? When I upload images one-by-one the EXIF is definitely preserved, but when I upload as part of a zip the EXIF data goes missing...?

Zip should not affect at all (unless there is some setting in zip to strip exif which I doubt). The zip is extracted and after that upload folder is just like you sent all those files separately. The actual upload process does not know if the files were originally zipped or not.

[DavidW]

This (http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=230992) may be the explanation and the fix for the date problem.



David

[cferrero]

Actually, I figured out the reason. When I uploaded as a zip, I then resized the files using ImageMagick and my resize path included stripping profiles. But when I upload single files, I do the resizing on my own PC and therefore keep the EXIF information attached. So the fault was mine, not EE's!

[DavidW]

I'm glad you figured it out. I'm bemused, though - why am I the only one that seems to have been affected by the change in XMP data in Photoshop CS2? Nevertheless, now I've fixed that, EE is working fine for me.



David

[cferrero]

Actually, I was wrong. :( I just uploaded another zip file. All the files have EXIF data before I upload them. When the FTP uploader has completed, the file list in Step 4 of EDITOR_Upload.php shows me that none of the files has EXIF information any longer. Something about the zip upload definitely strips out the EXIF information!

[DavidW]

When the photo is in the upload folder, you can switch to the upload folder in the Server Tools screen, choose one of the troublesome images, and press VIEW XMP CAMERA DATA, then VIEW COMBINED CAMERA DATA. If both are largely blank, then you probably have the same issue that I just fixed.

Please try my fix here (http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=230992), especially if you're using Photoshop CS2. Back up SCRIPT_editor_functions.php before replacing the function with the new version in that post.

Try the VIEW COMBINED CAMERA DATA again - if this was the issue, it should now be all filled in.


I really can't see this being anything to do with Zip compression, and I'd like to know whether I've found (and fixed) your problem.



David

[cferrero]

The images have no XMP or Camera Data.

So I uploaded your fixed version of the SCRIPT_editor_functions.php file, then I reclicked VIEW COMBINED CAMERA DATA: no difference. All EXIF data is still missing. Note that I did not try to re-upload the zip file: maybe I should have done this? At what point is the script called?

[cferrero]

I tried something else. I re-downloaded a file from my EE UPLOAD folder to my PC. This file still has EXIF information in it. So I guess it is EE that is not reading EXIF information properly.

DavidW: btw, I'm not actually using CS2 for these photos: they're untouched copies straight from the camera (too many photos and too little time to edit them all!)

[DavidW]

cferrero and I have worked on this via PM and email. In this case, it looks as if the server administrator had upgraded PHP and had failed to include the EXIF extension when they did so. As EE was configured to use the EXIF extension rather than EE's internal EXIF code, there was no method available to read EXIF from the images.

Hopefully he can confirm that he now regards this as fixed.



David

[cferrero]

Confirmed!

[::John::]

Hmmm - interesting.

I, too, had a situation where the last group of files I had uploaded in 1.5 had a date stamp of 2002 in EE 2.01 and had been uploaded as a zip to the 1.5 version.

It took a bit of playing around and I checked the diagnostics Pekka had supplied as well as using the code DavidW had provided to see where the problem lay.

Opanda (plugin for EXIF in my browser) was showing EXIF data for the uploaded pictures, yet the picture editor in EE was showing no exif data.

In the end, I went back to the JPG files and loaded them into photoshop - hmmm - no EXIF.

I backtraced my workflow - the problem was definately of my making.

I had recently converted to shooting RAW and my RAW workflow was producing an intermediate TIFF without any EXIF. Photoshop conversion to JPG was adding PS EXIF that EE wasn't using.

I went back to the RAW files and re-processed them from RAW to JPG and uploaded them again - no problems.