Unable to process images taken by Blackberry

[deyab]

The subject image is attached. If I view the properties in windows, under
Details > Origin > Date taken it has a value of 10/13/2012 9:10 AM

When I run the following in a linux box, I get the following:

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$ exiftool -a -u -g1 IMG00075-20121013-0910.jpg

---- ExifTool ----
ExifTool Version Number         : 9.06
---- System ----
File Name                       : IMG00075-20121013-0910.jpg
Directory                       : .
File Size                       : 194 kB
File Modification Date/Time     : 2012:11:17 08:30:57-06:00
File Access Date/Time           : 2012:11:19 20:35:56-06:00
File Permissions                : rwxrwx---
---- File ----
File Type                       : JPEG
MIME Type                       : image/jpeg
Exif Byte Order                 : Little-endian (Intel, II)
Image Width                     : 2048
Image Height                    : 1536
Encoding Process                : Baseline DCT, Huffman coding
Bits Per Sample                 : 8
Color Components                : 3
Y Cb Cr Sub Sampling            : YCbCr4:2:2 (2 1)
---- IFD0 ----
Make                            : Research In Motion
Camera Model Name               : BlackBerry 8900
Orientation                     : Horizontal (normal)
X Resolution                    : 72
Y Resolution                    : 72
Resolution Unit                 : inches
Software                        : Rim Exif Version1.00a
Modify Date                     : 2012:10:13 09:10:11
Y Cb Cr Positioning             : Co-sited
---- ExifIFD ----
Exposure Time                   : 0
Exif Version                    : 0220
Date/Time Original              : 2012:10:13 09:10:11
Components Configuration        : Y, Cb, Cr, -
Subject Distance                : 0 m
Light Source                    : Unknown
Flash                           : No flash function
Color Space                     : sRGB
Exif Image Width                : 2048
Exif Image Height               : 1536
Device Setting Description      : (Binary data 0 bytes, use -b option to extract)
---- Composite ----
Image Size                      : 2048x1536
Shutter Speed                   : 0


I am wondering why exiftool is not picking up the date taken field. I normally process all pics from my Canon camera as:

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exiftool '-FileName<CreateDate' -d %Y%m%d_%H%M%S_A\ Description%%-c.%%e .
which works great. However, this command is exiting with:

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Warning: No writable tags found

Thanks!

[Phil Harvey]

The "date taken" you are talking about is likely the "Date/time Original" reported by ExifTool.  Your command to set the FileName doesn't work because there is no CreateDate tag.  Try using DateTimeOriginal instead.

- Phil

[deyab]

Thank you for proving that not only I don't know enough about exif tags (which is okay), but I am blind too  I looked though the output so many times, but did not see the date/time reported under "Modify Date" as well as "Date/Time Original".

Thanks again!