EXIF info not available in iPhoto

When I highlight a photo in iPhoto and click Info, I don't get the date and time the photo was taken. It show only the time that the photo was put on my computer in iPhoto.

I thought time of photo, and even GPS location, was imprinted on each photo (taken by my iPhone 4S by the way).

I have iPhoto 11 on my Macbook Pro running Lion.

Thanks.

This is part of my screen in iPhoto. That top right part is where the date and time of the photo should be, right?



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Thanks.

They arrived directly through Photo Stream from my iPhone 4S. Plus, I have photos from other sources. None show that data.

I read somewhere that iPhoto 11 has simply eliminated this data. Is this true? What the heck kind of reasoning is that? It is actually important to keep the information of when and where a photo was taken, and if iPhoto cannot handle this anymore, it is a severely inefficient photo program to be relying on.

I sure would like to know if there is a solution.

Thank you so much.

Thank you so much for your response! You encouraged me to go digging a little further. I had previously checked many photos and found no information in that top right yellow box, on the second line. Just dashes. And the date/time stamp listed under the Image number (name) was clearly wrong on many photos. So it looked like it only showed the import-into-iPhoto time as opposed to time the photo was taken.
However, when I just checked again, some of those very same photos did indeed have the correct time of day on them. I began to wonder if the time was changing based on when they popped in from Photo Stream. But I took a new photo and delayed the Photo Stream transfer, and it still showed the correct time later.
On further examination, I noticed I had some duplicates in my Photo Stream event. And one photo was correct time and the other was the later, wrong time. So, now I wonder how often (and why) I am getting these duplicates. These are not photos I purposely duplicated for editing or anything.
So I am very encouraged. Thank you for staying with me on this!

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I just noticed your previous question about where I imported my photos from, like maybe from an email. Many family photos come to me (from good phone cameras) via text or email, and I save them to iPhoto. Can I count on their data to remain accurate?

Ok, this is interesting. None of my photos in the Events or Photos sections of iPhoto show any EXIF info, and their times are wrong. It is only in the Photo Stream folder of iPhoto that the data is shown and the times are right. And it was there that I found the duplicates I mentioned earlier. This explains why I spent so many days looking for this information and it was not there. I was looking in those Photos and Events folders where iPhoto imports all photos.

I just checked an emailed photo, doing what you said. I saved it directly to my desktop and opened it in Preview. I used Inspector and clicked Exif, and the time the photo was taken was correct (all other data was there too). But that same photo (which I right-clicked on in the email and clicked Export to iPhoto) had no data when viewed inside iPhoto, and the time was wrong (probably the time that I exported it into iPhoto,as opposed to time photo was taken).

So I guess I am back to square one. I cannot get the correct data to stay with my photos once they are imported into iPhoto.

Excellent! That worked perfectly.

Thanks for hanging in there and testing this stuff out with me. Now I know the steps to take to keep my photo records accurate. It has also motivated me to go through iPhoto and clean some things up. I had gotten lazy with seeing photos showing up on my computer, through Photo Stream, and had forgotten to go through and properly import them into iPhoto for long term storage.