I am trying to find out when some of the pictures I own have been taken. In Mac OS X, in Finder, I am looking at the photo. There is date created, but it is not correct. I assume it is the date when I copied the photo to Mac. The picture is taken in 2008, and the date is in 2009. I thought digital cameras store date when the picture is taken. There is all kind of metadata for the picture, but not date taken. I have checked for pictures taken by different cameras.
According to Exchangeable image file format article on Wikipedia, right click the image > Get Info > More Info
should do it, but it does not. I can not believe that none of the cameras saved date taken.
Am I doing something wrong? How to see when the picture was taken?
I have access to Mac, Windows and Linux machines, if it is easier to see in any of them.
Best Answer
Found it in Preview.
Tools > Inspector > More Info tab (in the middle)
and thenExif
ofTIFF
tab.I am still not convinced the actual time when the image was taken is recorded there, it looks to me that in some cases the time when the image was moved to a computer is there, but that could be camera specific. Good enough for now.