Casio digital camera DATE CREATED metatag

I have a Casio EX-S600 point and shoot digital camera. I upload
images from it to my computer (MacBook). When I open a folder of such
images, the column for DATE CREATED is blank. I am able to see the
DATE MODIFIED, which just becomes the time and date I uploaded them
via USB to my computer.

I have tried highlighting an image and pressing COMMAND + I to see its
"Info" (The PC equivalent would be "Properties"). When I do that, I
can see the image size, focal length, exposure time, date last opened,
etc. What is not available, however, is the DATE CREATED. That field
is filled with with two dashes, "--".

My last Casio point and shoot digital camera, the EX-Z4U, always
produced images with a DATE CREATED in the "Info".

QUESTIONS:

1. Why don't the images taken by this camera have information in the
DATE CREATED field?
2. What are my options?


Thanks to anyone who can offer advice. It is much appreciated!

On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 00:17:35 -0700, iubhoosier wrote:

> I have a Casio EX-S600 point and shoot digital camera. I upload
> images from it to my computer (MacBook). When I open a folder of such
> images, the column for DATE CREATED is blank. I am able to see the
> DATE MODIFIED, which just becomes the time and date I uploaded them
> via USB to my computer.
>
> I have tried highlighting an image and pressing COMMAND + I to see its
> "Info" (The PC equivalent would be "Properties"). When I do that, I
> can see the image size, focal length, exposure time, date last opened,
> etc. What is not available, however, is the DATE CREATED. That field
> is filled with with two dashes, "--".
>
> My last Casio point and shoot digital camera, the EX-Z4U, always
> produced images with a DATE CREATED in the "Info".
>
> QUESTIONS:
>
> 1. Why don't the images taken by this camera have information in the
> DATE CREATED field?
> 2. What are my options?
>
>
> Thanks to anyone who can offer advice. It is much appreciated!

Ask Casio, they should know the answer.

--
Neil

> Ask Casio, they should know the answer.
>
> --
> Neil


Well, that's insightful, Neil.

Would you believe me if I told you I already did that? I spoke with
three tech support specialists, one of whom was the call center floor
manager. They had no idea what I was talking about. Why would ANYONE
CARE when a picture was taken? Worthless, those people. That's why I
came to you guys.

iubhoosier@gmail.com wrote:

>
>> Ask Casio, they should know the answer.
>>
>> --
>> Neil
>
>
> Well, that's insightful, Neil.
>
> Would you believe me if I told you I already did that? I spoke with
> three tech support specialists, one of whom was the call center floor
> manager. They had no idea what I was talking about. Why would ANYONE
> CARE when a picture was taken? Worthless, those people. That's why I
> came to you guys.

There's a free open source utility called exiftool which might be
available for the Mac. It seems to be able to read just about any
format of metadata in any image file format ever devised, so if it's
in the file, it should list it.

You might need to install perl as well.

Sorry I don't know more about Mac software, but I gather that OS-X is
Unix based, and is capable of running command line utilities.

iubhoosier@gmail.com wrote:
> I have a Casio EX-S600 point and shoot digital camera. I upload
> images from it to my computer (MacBook). When I open a folder of such
> images, the column for DATE CREATED is blank. I am able to see the
> DATE MODIFIED, which just becomes the time and date I uploaded them
> via USB to my computer.
>
> I have tried highlighting an image and pressing COMMAND + I to see its
> "Info" (The PC equivalent would be "Properties"). When I do that, I
> can see the image size, focal length, exposure time, date last opened,
> etc. What is not available, however, is the DATE CREATED. That field
> is filled with with two dashes, "--".
>
> My last Casio point and shoot digital camera, the EX-Z4U, always
> produced images with a DATE CREATED in the "Info".
>
> QUESTIONS:
>
> 1. Why don't the images taken by this camera have information in the
> DATE CREATED field?
> 2. What are my options?
>
>
> Thanks to anyone who can offer advice. It is much appreciated!
>
Did you set the clock on the camera?

Scott