[digiKam-users] How to show original date taken on image thumbnails

[Budge]

I am just starting out with digiKam and have started to assemble my albums in one place to start tagging.  At present the digital images only have the metadata from the images and the date shown on the copies I have are dated with the date when file was copied not the date taken.  

Is it possible to create a script to add the date taken into the caption or visible caption on the thumbnails?  

I also have to tag/edit several thousand images scanned from negatives without any dates when the pictures were taken.  The date does not therefore appear automatically in the file name or at present the caption.  What I seek to do is achieve a consistent approach for both scanned negatives and my later digital images so getting this right is important so that when I wish to add a date to a scanned image, assuming I can identify it, I can add this by hand but the appearance of all the Thumbnails will be consistent.

Budge.
 

[Hans-Peter huth]

On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 20:58:41 +0000
Budge <[hidden email]> wrote:

> I am just starting out with digiKam and have started to assemble my
> albums in one place to start tagging.  At present the digital images only
> have the metadata from the images and the date shown on the copies I have
> are dated with the date when file was copied not the date taken.  
>
You can configure the preview (thumbnail) view to show date and other info,
is this what you want?

HP
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[Budge]

On 19/11/2020 21:37, Hans-Peter Huth wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 20:58:41 +0000
> Budge <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>> I am just starting out with digiKam and have started to assemble my
>> albums in one place to start tagging.  At present the digital images only
>> have the metadata from the images and the date shown on the copies I have
>> are dated with the date when file was copied not the date taken.  
>>
> You can configure the preview (thumbnail) view to show date and other info,
> is this what you want?
>
> HP
>

Hi HP,
Many thanks.  My problem appears to be limited to some folders only.  Will need to check here before posting further on this.

[Budge]

On 19/11/2020 21:37, Hans-Peter Huth wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 20:58:41 +0000
> Budge <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>> I am just starting out with digiKam and have started to assemble my
>> albums in one place to start tagging.  At present the digital images only
>> have the metadata from the images and the date shown on the copies I have
>> are dated with the date when file was copied not the date taken.  
>>
> You can configure the preview (thumbnail) view to show date and other info,
> is this what you want?
>
> HP
>

Hi HP,
My problem is that I have used Imagemagick to convert my original fpx images from an old Kodak camera to jpg images but the metadata does not copy or at least I have not been able to enable this.  I can copy over the metadata fromthe fpx image to the jpg converted image using exiftool, which works well and gives me what I need but I was hoping I could get all I needed in the one step.  Meanwhile it was great to see the old test picture now with correct date on the thumbnail.
Thanks for your reply.
Budge
Still working on it