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graysky

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PTP camera - how to retain date/time stamp on photos [Gnome]

I have a USB PTP Camera that comes up in Nautilus under "gphoto2://[usb:001,007]/DCIM"  I can copy/paste the photos off the thing to ~ but the date/time stamp gets changed to the present.  How can I copy them over retaining the original date/time stamp?

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karol

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Re: PTP camera - how to retain date/time stamp on photos [Gnome]

By using the exif info I suppose.

http://linux.die.net/man/1/exiv2
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    Set the file timestamp according to the Exif create timestamp in addition to renaming the file (overrides -k). This option is only used with the 'rename' action.

Last edited by karol (2010-07-22 22:13:26)

graysky

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Re: PTP camera - how to retain date/time stamp on photos [Gnome]

Has to be a way to copy over from a shell, no?  A "cp -a" will do it, I just have no idea how to access the mount point from a shell.

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karol

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Re: PTP camera - how to retain date/time stamp on photos [Gnome]

gphoto2 looks like protocol, [usb:001,007] is the address and DCIM is the folder on your memory.

Edit: http://michaelminn.com/linux/mmptp/

If you can mount it using the info from e.g. dmesg, than 'cp -a' shouldn't be a problem.

Last edited by karol (2010-07-22 22:41:14)