Time in Info panel is not exposure time

[Joachim Jundt]

Hello Nik,

I just found out that the time in the info panel is showing the modification time of the image. I am confused: I’d like to know the date and time the image was taken. Did I accidentally switch a preference? As the info panel shows all parameters of the image when it was taken I assumed the time of the actual shutter release is on display. But it’s not.

[Nik Bhatt]

That’s very strange. I have an image shot in 2008 and it has modification dates of 2024. However, it shows in Nitro as 2008. I’ll email you separately on this.

[Joachim Jundt]

Could that have something to do with my reprocessing the big previews in JPEGmini? In other pictures from other cameras the “File modification date/time” is the same as the “Date created Date/time Original“. But not with the X2D RAWs.

On second thought: Maybe not. My workflow with this camera is

Open Hasselblad Phocus
Connect the camera to the Mac
Import the .3FR RAWs
Then they become .fff RAWs and are smaller than before, so something is changed by Phocus
After that I navigate to ‘/Users/myName/Library/Containers/com.gentlemencoders.nitro/Data/Library/Caches/File System’
Select all folders and drag them over JPGmini’s app window (files remain in place, of course, no harm is done)

[Joachim Jundt]

It’s not coming from JPGmini. I just checked a file which I put into JPGmini just half an hour ago. Result:

File modification happended more than two months after the image was taken, but not tonight. Nonetheless, Nitro is not showing Date created / Date/time Original.

[Nik Bhatt]

I agree – I don’t think using JPGMini would affect the date shown in Nitro. It is something else.

[Joachim Jundt]

There was an update of Phocus in October 2024 and the last version was released end of March 2025. Can’t see a connection.

[Nik Bhatt]

I found the problem (thanks for sharing the file). Most camera images have two EXIF date fields: the “original” and the “digitized”. They are usually the same, and the app doesn’t want to show two of the same thing, so it picks one. It picked Digitized. However, the FFF files only have Original and the app did not have code to fall back to that one when digitized was missing. I have made the change, so in the next update the dates will be correct for your files.

[Joachim Jundt]

Thank you very much. I don’t know of any other camera now with a RAW format that requires conversion to another RAW format. When I shoot tethered, the files go to the drive as .fff. The difference in size is between 20 and 30 MB per RAW. Strange.

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