I just shot my second wedding with my D4 - as I am importing images from the wedding into LR4 I seeing about 400 of the 1400 images being placed into a folder for 12-30-11 and as I am looking at the images importing into that folder, the metadata of the images does in fact say that the images were created the end of last year, while the other 999 images on the CF card are correctly showing the record date for this month (April) with the correct day and time.
The images that have the incorrect creation time are random images shot from almost every part of the day - cant find any rhyme or reason to them. I've never seen anything like this with any Nikon camera I've owned and am a bit concerned about it and what I can do (if anything) to resolve the issue.
Anyone out there dealt with this?
D4 Problem with "creation date" of images
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Posted 1 year ago #
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Hi Gabriel, I have never seen anything like that. If you still got the originals on the memory card you might want to check the date in the camera or in another application like Nikon View or so. Just to make sure the date was not changed by Lightroom on import. I know that should not happen but the date should not be wrong anyways... This way you can find out if the problem is camera or software related.
I don't know about Lightroom, but in Aperture there is an option to adjust the date and time of an image. I am pretty sure that Lightroom has got a similar option. By the way: is only the date out of sync or the time as well?
If the problem is camera related I would definitely contact Nikon Tech Support. If they don't know about that type of problem they cannot fix it.
You might also want to check the date of other peoples cameras to make sure that the wedding is not really jumping back and forth through time. If that is the case you better contact CERN or a similar institution for help. :))
Posted 1 year ago # -
Hi,
Sorry about that. Did you set up the date, format, etc. on initial use of the camera? Did you fully charge the battery prior to initial use? I would suggest a recheck of all the initial program instructions just to be certain there are no mistakes in one of the multiple options.
My D4, while only a few more than a 1000 images have been shot on it, has the correct information on each one. Also, do you reformat the memory cards after downloading images with each shooting? And do you reformat both cards? Are you shooting with JPEG backup of RAW, or JPEG primary? I would suspect what has happened is one of the initial programming items has not been successfully completed. Either by NIKON after the factory test or by you. And I say this because I am really good at not getting things seth correctly. Also, the memory cards... are they approved for the D4? I noticed some were not and so I purchased new cards for both slots. Oh, was the date incorrect for a distinct group such as flash shots, or a specific program mode? Was a specific shooting bank selected?
And of course, NIKON as noted above may have some answers... Let us know what the problem is as this may affect more of us.
Posted 1 year ago # -
Thank you Correlli and Msmoto - I appreciate the feedback!
So, I've looked at this more - it seems that at one point in the evening while I was shooting the wedding the cameras clock reset itself to the last minute of the last day of 2011 and changed the timezone. The images imported into Lightroom in a strange order (with the D700 it simply imported in chronological order) so I discovered the exact moment on that camera when the camera's clock reset. Nothing of any significance happened at that point, so still no idea why it happened - but all of my other camera settings stayed the way I had set them.
I purchased new CF cards for use with the D4, and format them, so its all a bit of a mystery. I have a wedding this weekend and will watch to see if it happens again.
Again, thank you two for you advice!Posted 1 year ago # -
Meanwhile, Gabriel, Lightroom will let you adjust all the photos that had their times wrong (I'm assuming that after it reset to last year, the time kept ticking as it should have).
In grid mode, you select all the photos whose time you want to change, with one whose time you know highlighted. Go to Metadata > Edit Capture Time, and set the time to be the "right" time for the highlighted (highlit?) photo. All the other selected photos will have their time adjusted by that same amount (not set to the same time), and you'll have chronological photos again.
I have forgotten to synchronize my cameras for a couple of weddings and have been saved by this trick and finding a moment that was caught by both cameras at the same time.
Posted 1 year ago # -
Have you changed your settings significantly from default?
Could you have maybe accidentally hit the reset combo but not have noticed because your settings are not that far off from default?
Posted 1 year ago # -
Krevlin said:
Could you have maybe accidentally hit the reset combo but not have noticed because your settings are not that far off from default?I never did a reset, but is this supposed to reset the date and time as well?
@Gabriel: I would report this to Nikon Tech Support. Either they can tell you what could be the reason for the reset or at least they "collect" this case and can have a closer look in case more people report similar cases.
Posted 1 year ago # -
thank you Jonnyapple, Krevlin and Correlli - Its good that LR will let me fix the dates. I didn't know that there was a reset combo of button - but none of my other settings seemed to have been changed. I have another wedding this weekend and will keep an eye on all of this and let you all know if it happens again.
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