A simple script to rename your ugly and inconsistently named pictures, to something usable.
I was fed up with the pseudo-standard way digital photography files are named by cameras.
You end up with something like that :
DSCF0459.JPG
DSCF0459.RAF
DSCF0460.JPG
DSCF0460.RAF
DSCF0461.JPG
DSCF0461.RAF
DSCF0462.JPG
DSCF0462.RAF
DSCF0463.JPG
DSCF0463.RAF
DSCF0464.JPG
DSCF0464.RAF
Problems :
- It's not informative :
- you cannot even know which year this photo has been taken
- ... or with which camera
- The ordering is broken / you can have name clashes :
- If you use multiple cameras at the same event, bye bye chronology
- If you take more than 9999 photographs whith a camera, you go back to DSCF0001.JPG
- On my camera, if I apply a new RAW development on an existing picture, this creates a new serial (as if you had shot a new pic) for the resulting JPEG : one picture, two very different names.
- It's ugly.
I find way better to rename them with a consistent template like this one :
<date>-<time>_<camera_model>_<original_serial>.ext
This way, you get :
- consistent chronology
- more information when handling files
- no name clashes, even if you choose to mix files from different cameras (I wouldn't do that for storage, but when curating photos for a web gallery ...)
- no information loss : we keep the original serial, if you need it.
- Python 3.6
- modules :
- exif
I use poetry to handle my venv and modules, but this is not a requirement.
I only tested the script with files from my Fujifilm cameras, but since it gets information from standard EXIF fields, this should be compatible with almost 100% of digital cameras.
(if this is not the case, feel free to open an issue)
You just need to pass your files to the -f flag, separated by spaces.
(so if you need to rename an entire directory, -f *.JPG will do the job)
$ python -m photo_renamer -f ./pics/*
Welcome to photo_renamer !
(this is unsupported software, please make backups before using it)
Your files would be renamed like this :
./pics/DSCF0459.JPG => ./pics/20190714-093518_X-T2_DSCF0459.JPG : (preview)
./pics/DSCF0459.RAF => ./pics/20190714-093518_X-T2_DSCF0459.RAF : (preview)
./pics/DSCF0460.JPG => ./pics/20190714-093647_X-T2_DSCF0460.JPG : (preview)
./pics/DSCF0460.RAF => ./pics/20190714-093647_X-T2_DSCF0460.RAF : (preview)
./pics/DSCF0461.JPG => ./pics/20190714-093703_X-T2_DSCF0461.JPG : (preview)
./pics/DSCF0461.RAF => ./pics/20190714-093703_X-T2_DSCF0461.RAF : (preview)
./pics/DSCF0462.JPG => ./pics/20190714-093715_X-T2_DSCF0462.JPG : (preview)
./pics/DSCF0462.RAF => ./pics/20190714-093715_X-T2_DSCF0462.RAF : (preview)
./pics/DSCF0463.JPG => ./pics/20190714-093731_X-T2_DSCF0463.JPG : (preview)
./pics/DSCF0463.RAF => ./pics/20190714-093731_X-T2_DSCF0463.RAF : (preview)
./pics/DSCF0464.JPG => ./pics/20190714-093837_X-T2_DSCF0464.JPG : (preview)
./pics/DSCF0464.RAF => ./pics/20190714-093837_X-T2_DSCF0464.RAF : (preview)
Is this OK with you ? (y/N)y
Renaming :
./pics/DSCF0459.JPG => ./pics/20190714-093518_X-T2_DSCF0459.JPG : OK (renamed successfully)
./pics/DSCF0459.RAF => ./pics/20190714-093518_X-T2_DSCF0459.RAF : OK (renamed successfully)
./pics/DSCF0460.JPG => ./pics/20190714-093647_X-T2_DSCF0460.JPG : OK (renamed successfully)
./pics/DSCF0460.RAF => ./pics/20190714-093647_X-T2_DSCF0460.RAF : OK (renamed successfully)
./pics/DSCF0461.JPG => ./pics/20190714-093703_X-T2_DSCF0461.JPG : OK (renamed successfully)
./pics/DSCF0461.RAF => ./pics/20190714-093703_X-T2_DSCF0461.RAF : OK (renamed successfully)
./pics/DSCF0462.JPG => ./pics/20190714-093715_X-T2_DSCF0462.JPG : OK (renamed successfully)
./pics/DSCF0462.RAF => ./pics/20190714-093715_X-T2_DSCF0462.RAF : OK (renamed successfully)
./pics/DSCF0463.JPG => ./pics/20190714-093731_X-T2_DSCF0463.JPG : OK (renamed successfully)
./pics/DSCF0463.RAF => ./pics/20190714-093731_X-T2_DSCF0463.RAF : OK (renamed successfully)
./pics/DSCF0464.JPG => ./pics/20190714-093837_X-T2_DSCF0464.JPG : OK (renamed successfully)
./pics/DSCF0464.RAF => ./pics/20190714-093837_X-T2_DSCF0464.RAF : OK (renamed successfully)