For a while, I’ve been thinking that iPhoto has been messing with my head. I have it set up to display images in descending order (newest first), and every time I pulled photos off the D7000 I couldn’t find them. I’d have to scroll all over the place to hunt them down. This morning, frustrated, I rebuilt the iPhoto database to try and fix the problem. When it had finished chugging through all the photos (I have to bite the bullet and disconnect iPhoto from Flickr at some point soon so that I can remove a ton of photos from my hard drive) they were still all screwed up. Then I peeked at the EXIF data on some recent photos and realized the problem: My camera’s date was set to 2012.
Now I’ve got to find a way to
- Comb through EXIF data to find all the files shot with the D7000
- Replace 2012 with 2013.
There are several applications that can do this, most of which are for sale. I’m told Lightroom can do it easily, and I’ve been considering an upgrade from iPhoto for about, oh, five years.
On the positive side, one of my shots from last summer (a tossed-off iPhone pic) may wind up on a poster for a client. I’ve requested a full-size copy as payment.