I want to show a very nice tool which can help you to improve your photocollection. It is called exiftool and can be found in any linux distribution. It can be used to view the exifdata which gets saved to images. Also it can batch-replace this exifdata and batch-rename the files with that data. I want to show everything in this article.
Show exif-data
Very boring, but here:
exiftool 20140311_043419.JPG ExifTool Version Number : 9.12 File Name : 20140311_043419.JPG Directory : . File Size : 2.5 MB ... ... Create Date : 2014:03:11 04:34:19 Max Aperture Value : 2.8 Metering Mode : Multi-segment Light Source : Unknown Flash : Off, Did not fire Focal Length : 7.9 mm ..
As you see, it will output at the beginning also some filesystem data. The most-important exif-data for me is the create date.. also maybe the gps location. But I don't have such a modern camera.
If you want to output a single item you can do:
exiftool -p '$CreateDate' a.jpg exiftool -p '$CreateDate' -d %Y a.jpg # will only output the year
Change exif-data
The only thing I need to change is a wrong Creation Date. This happens, when the date wasn't set in the camera. In this example, the date was set correctly, but not the timezone change. So I had to add 6h for every file:
exiftool -AllDates+=6 .
Change file name
My most liked use case is to change the filename to the creation time. This is useful, if you traveled in a group and want to combine multiple sets of images.
exiftool '-FileName<CreateDate' -d %Y%m%d_%H%M%S%%-c.%%e .
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