Adobe Bridge
While using Adobe Bridge to do a quick search in my “most important photos” folder for some photos, a curiosity question came to mind. Modern digital cameras save a lot of information in each photo’s metadata. Today that is a lot of stuff, but years ago they only saved the date and time of the photo. I wondered which of my photos was the first to have the exposure information recorded in the metadata. So I went back to 2003 (the year I bought my first two digital cameras), and went looking.
I found the first photo in this folder with exposure data. It is the photo of Kieran, the girl in green. We were at Camp Bountiful in Ohio. The date was July 1, 2003 at 9:21:01 am. The exposure data was f/8, 1/30 second, ISO 400. The zoo photos were taken with a different digital camera. The time and date for each photo was recorded in the metadata but no exposure information.
All of these photos were taken with a pair Canon 10D cameras. But the zoo photos were taken with an early version of the 10D that only saved the date and time. The photo of Kieran was taken with an updated version of the 10D that added exposure information to the metadata. I did not know about the update at the time. I just needed another 10D so I could have a normal lens on one camera and a telephoto lens on the other camera for shooting fast action events with no time to change lenses.
Adobe Bridge is very useful software for batch renaming photos, adding keywords to photos, and quickly finding photos.
Links
“How To” Series: Adventures with Adobe Bridge
Adobe Bridge Basics: How to Download Photos into Folders By Date
Adobe Bridge Basics: How to Batch Rename Photos