QUESTION
The date and time is set incorrectly on my camera and the images created. How can I correct this within Capture One?
ANSWER
Capture One treats the original source files as read-only to prevent possible corruption of the original files. As such, it's not possible to change the EXIF capture time. It is necessary to use another piece of software that will edit the image files, such as exifTool.
Comments
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I think that this is a misunderstanding: We can very much keep the original raw file untouched and yet indicate the adjusted time stamp by having a time adjustment handle in the adjustment file. This is what happens in Lightroom, to name one example. When we import a catalog from Lightroom, the time adjustments are being lost.
I face frequently this dilemma with wrong timestamps while merging images from the same trip and 2 or 3 cameras. In order to restore the sequence of events after the import from Lightroom, I copy than the raw files away, use exiftool to adjust the time, set the file timestamp to the EXIF time, and than copy back the raw file to the C1 catalog directory. Lots of work in many cases, which was already once done in Lightroom.
I wish Capture One would have added this feature.
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