Scanned images and dates

Question

Suppose you know the dates that negative film images were taken. Any
suggestions on how to manage these dates? Scanners will typically include
the date the image was scanned, but how and where do you put the date of the
original photograph? Do you set the date in LR or some other tool?
Best,
Christopher

Answer 1

I put them in outside of LR before loading them into LR. There are various tools you can use for doing this. If you want to have two dates, you have to do it yourself. There is the original date (called various things) and the date digitized. Date time original and digitized date are the same with digital cameras. I like to put in the date digitized, if for no other reason I know which scanner I used.
Lightroom has had problems with dates. I don't know if these problems are fixed. The trouble is dates are included in all three portions of the metadata. The camera writes (and I wrote with my editing tools) the date time in EXIF. There are also IPTC dates and LR writes XMP dates. This is why it's important to do it before LR touches the files.
Date time original and date time digitized are shown in the right metadata panel. "Date time" for my scans is the date I wrote the metadata, I guess a date time modified.
Judy