Most of the "requirement" to rename files dates from an era when you were using the PC Explorer or the Mac Finger to manage files. I would argue that in the era of Lightroom and Aperture, there is no need to rename files in your library. Building a stock photo library for submission. … have you guys read Peter Krogh's DAM book? I need each photo to have a unique filename so I use date/time and my initials.
If you import the RAW + JPEG into Lightroom before renaming them and then get Lightroom to do the renaming there is no problem. If you only shoot JPG, then EXIFRenamer is fine, though a little cumbersome until you get used to it.Īs someone else in this thread said, you get what you pay for. Either they are capable of reading the EXIF data from the RW2 file or they are smart enough to copy it from the JPG when the camera file name (e.g. Using EXIFRenamer, I often had "duplicate" photos in my Lightroom catalog because the names were different.Ī Better Finder Renamer and PathFinder both handle this correctly. Lightroom automatically combines RAW + JPG but only if the file names being the same. As a result, the files are named differently:
Occasionally the RAW file and JPG are written at different clock times - in other words, the clock says 56 seconds when the JPG is written, but by the time the RAW file has finished writing to the SD card the clock has flipped over to 57 seconds. Instead it quietly uses the file creation date which can cause problems with Lightroom. Apparently EXIFRenamer cannot read EXIF data from the RAW file (Panasonic's RW2 format, in my case). I was using EXIFRenamer happily until I started shooting RAW + JPG. In short, EXIFRenamer is not sufficient if you shoot RAW + JPG. Sorry to dredge up such an old thread but I wanted to point out something I couldn't find mentioned elsewhere.
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