How do I access the Shot-taken date of an image file?

I have around 200 still images which I have taken over the last year using my Sony DV camera.

They are in folders which are named by date, eg:

Media\Images\2003-12-25\XMas with the kids.jpg

The folders are created when the images are downloaded, and are named according to the download date. But the images could be from over 6 months ago, thus making the date illogical.

I can view details regarding each shot, especially the date the shot was taken, by right-clicking individual files, and looking at the Summary tab.

My question is, how can I rename my image files using the "Date Shot Taken" field of the image's summary-property?

Most of the utils I have which do mass-renaming, can use the Create Date, but that comes up as the download date, not the date the shot was taken.

Any suggestions?

I cannot answer your question, but I do have a suggestion: You might like to take a look at Photoshop Album. This is another Adobe product, which is very cheap, but provides an excellent [IMHO] means to organise your images, without particularly worrying about their filenames/folders. It works in terms of the embedded date information, so you can easily filter to just see all the pictures taken on a specific day, for example. Do take a look. There is a free trial version, but be warned - the free version is only a very small subset of the full product functionality.

There is a program called Exifer, which I do not use personally, but is often recommended. It can read the date from EXIF and rename the file accordingly.

Hope it helps
Sven

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