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Need to print date/time on photos - please suggest a camera

Sep 22, 2004 1:23AM PDT

I am looking for a digital camera that I can purchase that saves the date/time stamp as part of the photo. Our Sony Mavica used to be this way, but our Canon SureShot A60 only prints the stamp, I believe, when using a Canon photo printer. I need a camera that makes the date/time a part of the photo so that if the file is modified, copied, etc. the actual date & time of the photo is still intact.

Does anyone have a suggestion for a manufacturer, series or model that performs in this manner?

Thank you,
Jeff Gethmann

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Re: Need to print date/time on photos - please suggest a cam
Sep 22, 2004 1:32AM PDT
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Re: Need to print date/time on photos - please suggest a cam
Sep 22, 2004 3:16AM PDT

Bob, thanks for your reply. My Canon has the menu option to add date/time, but this doesn't actually show up in the picture like my old Sony Mavica, which is what I am looking for. I want to be sure that once the file is downloaded and the file gets renamed or something that the date and time stay correct. Any additional thoughts?

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Sorry, I may have missed it.
Sep 22, 2004 5:00AM PDT

The date and time do show when I view the JPG file. The date/time of the file follows the rules of the host OS. XP has a neat feature in Explorer that you can add a column that shows the EXIF date/time.

If you want to set the data/time of the .JPG to the EXIF date/time, that was noted as a feature in one of the softwares I linked to, or some others.

I would not have to change cameras to get these effects.

Bob

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Re: Sorry, I may have missed it.
Sep 22, 2004 5:41AM PDT

Thanks for the info. This is helpful.

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Re: Sorry, I may have missed it.
Dec 11, 2004 8:37AM PST

I am also, in the market for a camera that can print date on the picture and found Sony DSC-T1 can do this. Not sure if any other Sony models can..

Ram

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Re: Sorry, I may have missed it.
Dec 12, 2004 11:07PM PST

Thanks for the input. I did find out that Sony & Kodak will print the date. Kodak does not print the time even though it makes you set it, and I'm not sure about Sony.

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time and date stamp on the image when taking the photo....
Oct 15, 2015 3:59PM PDT

Hi,

Nikon do exactly what u need, I use the same feature in construction.

many cameras do not, and for some reason when the request is made for a camera that imprints the time and the date onto an image at the time of taking the image, some people do not know what that means?

regards

Greg