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Nexus 5X Incoming, Looking for Camera App Recommendations

Started Oct 26, 2015 | Discussions thread
darkwings Junior Member • Posts: 36
Re: Nexus 5X Incoming, Looking for Camera App Recommendations

I also purchased ProShot for my Nexus 5X and discovered there is one problem with it that you should be aware of if you are going to take RAW photos.

It does not encode the proper date/time in the DNG files and therefore if you import them into lightroom or view them on a PC sorted by Date Taken, they're going to be out of order. I contacted ProShot support and unfortunately this is a bug in the Android OS so they can't fix it (yet). They referred me to this thread:

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=157238.

It's important to note that within the thread I linked above, this is a problem with more than ProShot. Manual Camera and Camera FV-5 were also mentioned but since I don't have those I can't confirm it.

Much to my dismay, the error in the date/time is not easily fixed after the fact. I dug into the EXIF data and found that DateTimeOriginal, GPSDateStamp and GPSTimeStamp are all incorrect and unfortunately are inconsistently incorrect. So there's no way to easy fix them. For ex. if the time was always off by a fixed value, I could run a tool (exiftool ) and change all the photos at once. But the error was a random value.  Interestingly enough the file name of the DNG files has the correct date/time. But the exif data is wrong.

Other than this problem, I do like the app.

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