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I'm taking a lot of RAW photos lately and I need a simple but convenient way to organize them. I saw a lot of tools to sort JPG images using EXIF informations, but none of them actually works with RAW files... Don't know why since a JPG is embedded by design in each RAW.
Anyway, does someone knows about a way to do this? A simple command line based script is fine, I just need something that reads the images in a folders and organize them in sub-folders based on the time the photo was taken.
Exiftool reads many raw formats.
You can use a command similar to this one to rename your photo files :
exiftool '-filename<CreateDate' -d %y%m%d_%H%M%S%%-c.%%le -r -ext cr2 /path/to/pictures
Change cr2 to whatever your raw extension is, and /path/to/pictures to the desired folder. Once renamed, you can sort them by name. There are more examples here.
Note that reading raw files will probably always be a moving target since the formats are usually proprietary and camera manufacturers can change them as they please, but ExifToool seems to support so many of them that you're probably covered.
