difference between DateTimeOriginal and CreateDate

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[Originally posted by storhaug on 2009-06-20 23:32:22-07]

Hopefully, that's not an RTFM-question:

What is the difference between DateTimeOriginal and CreateDate?

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[Originally posted by exiftool on 2009-06-20 23:49:54-07]

DateTimeOriginal is the photo content.
CreateDate is the file. For digital camera
images, these are the same because the
file is created at the same time the image
is captured. - Phil