Changing Exif date taken

[Iang84]

I was at a wedding earlier in the year and took a lot of photos over the day and into the early hours of the morning but I didn't notice that my date had reset itself on the camera so I now have several hundred photos that need the date and time adjusted but I cant do it with my windows 10 home edition, can anyone help with a preferably free program or something that is at least cheap as it will probably only be used a handful of times

Edited by Iang84 on Wednesday 19th July 13:06

[sgrimshaw]

If you can find the download, then Picasa will do this for free.

If not then EXIF Date Changer is one of many programs which will do it:

https://www.relliksoftware.com/exifdatechanger/

A collegue has been using XnView since Picasa disappeared, and he likes it:

http://www.xnview.com/en/xnview/

has ability to edit exif but I'm not sure if you can do batch edits/updates

ETA Picasa can be found here:

http://picasa.findmysoft.com/

Edited by sgrimshaw on Wednesday 19th July 16:51

[DarkMatter]

I had a similar date/time problem with my holiday pictures and used a free download called jpgtime to correct them. I don't recall which download site I used. I also used the Bulk Rename Utility by TGRMN software to rename the files to something meaningful and date related, again I don't recall which download site I used.

[Iang84]

Thanks for the info gents I will get hold on the ones you've mentioned and see which one I get on best with

@ dark matter I already have a bulk rename tool but it didn't allow date changes, but I have taken a note of your one in case mine stops working as it has followed me from XP

[Gad-Westy]

Lightroom can do this too and I believe you can still get a 30 day free trial.

[Iang84]

Gad-Westy said:

Lightroom can do this too and I believe you can still get a 30 day free trial.

Ta for that I assume it wouldn't be too different to use compared to the old elements package I use now

[Iang84]

Gad-Westy said:

Lightroom can do this too and I believe you can still get a 30 day free trial.

Ta for that I assume it wouldn't be too different to use compared to the old elements package I use now

[alock]

Exif Tool is designed for exactly this. Don't be fooled by the plain website.
http://owl.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

The home page even lists how to bulk time-shift a folder full of pictures when the camera has the wrong time configured.

exiftool "-DateTimeOriginal+=5:10:2 10:48:0" DIR

[Gad-Westy]

Iang84 said:

Ta for that I assume it wouldn't be too different to use compared to the old elements package I use now

I suspect it'll be quite different but it is is simple to use. You might find like me, that once you try it, you want to keep using it for all editing and cataloging.