diff --git a/server/apps/immich/src/api-v1/asset/asset.service.ts b/server/apps/immich/src/api-v1/asset/asset.service.ts
index f036264915..0cfdc759bc 100644
--- a/server/apps/immich/src/api-v1/asset/asset.service.ts
+++ b/server/apps/immich/src/api-v1/asset/asset.service.ts
@@ -188,16 +188,12 @@ export class AssetService {
     isVisible: boolean,
     livePhotoAssetEntity?: AssetEntity,
   ): Promise<AssetEntity> {
-    // Check valid time.
-    const createdAt = createAssetDto.createdAt;
-    const modifiedAt = createAssetDto.modifiedAt;
-
-    if (!timeUtils.checkValidTimestamp(createdAt)) {
-      createAssetDto.createdAt = await timeUtils.getTimestampFromExif(originalPath);
+    if (!timeUtils.checkValidTimestamp(createAssetDto.createdAt)) {
+      createAssetDto.createdAt = new Date().toISOString();
     }
 
-    if (!timeUtils.checkValidTimestamp(modifiedAt)) {
-      createAssetDto.modifiedAt = await timeUtils.getTimestampFromExif(originalPath);
+    if (!timeUtils.checkValidTimestamp(createAssetDto.modifiedAt)) {
+      createAssetDto.modifiedAt = new Date().toISOString();
     }
 
     const assetEntity = await this._assetRepository.create(
diff --git a/server/apps/microservices/src/processors/metadata-extraction.processor.ts b/server/apps/microservices/src/processors/metadata-extraction.processor.ts
index 7cf4aad07e..e9b42017de 100644
--- a/server/apps/microservices/src/processors/metadata-extraction.processor.ts
+++ b/server/apps/microservices/src/processors/metadata-extraction.processor.ts
@@ -18,8 +18,7 @@ import { Repository } from 'typeorm/repository/Repository';
 import geocoder, { InitOptions } from 'local-reverse-geocoder';
 import { getName } from 'i18n-iso-countries';
 import fs from 'node:fs';
-import { ExifDateTime, ExifTool } from 'exiftool-vendored';
-import { timeUtils } from '@app/common';
+import { ExifDateTime, exiftool } from 'exiftool-vendored';
 
 function geocoderInit(init: InitOptions) {
   return new Promise<void>(function (resolve) {
@@ -140,43 +139,52 @@ export class MetadataExtractionProcessor {
   async extractExifInfo(job: Job<IExifExtractionProcessor>) {
     try {
       const { asset, fileName }: { asset: AssetEntity; fileName: string } = job.data;
-      const exiftool = new ExifTool();
+
       const exifData = await exiftool.read(asset.originalPath).catch((e) => {
         this.logger.warn(`The exifData parsing failed due to: ${e} on file ${asset.originalPath}`);
+        return null;
       });
 
-      const exifToDate = (exifDate: string | ExifDateTime | undefined) =>
-        // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-non-null-assertion
-        exifDate ? new Date(exifDate.toString()!) : null;
+      const exifToDate = (exifDate: string | ExifDateTime | undefined) => {
+        if (!exifDate) return null;
 
-      let createdAt = exifToDate(asset.createdAt);
-      const newExif = new ExifEntity();
-      if (exifData) {
-        createdAt = exifToDate(exifData.DateTimeOriginal ?? exifData.CreateDate ?? asset.createdAt);
-        const modifyDate = exifToDate(exifData.ModifyDate);
-        newExif.make = exifData['Make'] || null;
-        newExif.model = exifData['Model'] || null;
-        newExif.exifImageHeight = exifData['ExifImageHeight'] || exifData['ImageHeight'] || null;
-        newExif.exifImageWidth = exifData['ExifImageWidth'] || exifData['ImageWidth'] || null;
-        newExif.exposureTime = (await timeUtils.parseStringToNumber(exifData['ExposureTime'])) || null;
-        newExif.orientation = exifData['Orientation']?.toString() || null;
-        newExif.dateTimeOriginal = createdAt;
-        newExif.modifyDate = modifyDate || null;
-        newExif.lensModel = exifData['LensModel'] || null;
-        newExif.fNumber = exifData['FNumber'] || null;
-        newExif.focalLength = (await timeUtils.parseStringToNumber(exifData['FocalLength'])) || null;
-        newExif.iso = exifData['ISO'] || null;
-        newExif.latitude = exifData['GPSLatitude'] || null;
-        newExif.longitude = exifData['GPSLongitude'] || null;
-      } else {
-        newExif.dateTimeOriginal = createdAt;
-        newExif.modifyDate = exifToDate(asset.modifiedAt);
-      }
+        if (typeof exifDate === 'string') {
+          return new Date(exifDate);
+        }
+
+        return exifDate.toDate();
+      };
+
+      const getExposureTimeDenominator = (exposureTime: string | undefined) => {
+        if (!exposureTime) return null;
+
+        const exposureTimeSplit = exposureTime.split('/');
+        return exposureTimeSplit.length === 2 ? parseInt(exposureTimeSplit[1]) : null;
+      };
+
+      const createdAt = exifToDate(exifData?.DateTimeOriginal ?? exifData?.CreateDate ?? asset.createdAt);
+      const modifyDate = exifToDate(exifData?.ModifyDate ?? asset.modifiedAt);
       const fileStats = fs.statSync(asset.originalPath);
       const fileSizeInBytes = fileStats.size;
+
+      const newExif = new ExifEntity();
       newExif.assetId = asset.id;
-      newExif.imageName = path.parse(fileName).name || null;
-      newExif.fileSizeInByte = fileSizeInBytes || null;
+      newExif.imageName = path.parse(fileName).name;
+      newExif.fileSizeInByte = fileSizeInBytes;
+      newExif.make = exifData?.Make || null;
+      newExif.model = exifData?.Model || null;
+      newExif.exifImageHeight = exifData?.ExifImageHeight || exifData?.ImageHeight || null;
+      newExif.exifImageWidth = exifData?.ExifImageWidth || exifData?.ImageWidth || null;
+      newExif.exposureTime = getExposureTimeDenominator(exifData?.ExposureTime);
+      newExif.orientation = exifData?.Orientation?.toString() || null;
+      newExif.dateTimeOriginal = createdAt;
+      newExif.modifyDate = modifyDate;
+      newExif.lensModel = exifData?.LensModel || null;
+      newExif.fNumber = exifData?.FNumber || null;
+      newExif.focalLength = exifData?.FocalLength ? parseFloat(exifData.FocalLength) : null;
+      newExif.iso = exifData?.ISO || null;
+      newExif.latitude = exifData?.GPSLatitude || null;
+      newExif.longitude = exifData?.GPSLongitude || null;
 
       await this.assetRepository.save({
         id: asset.id,
@@ -217,7 +225,6 @@ export class MetadataExtractionProcessor {
       }
 
       await this.exifRepository.save(newExif);
-      await exiftool.end();
     } catch (error: any) {
       this.logger.error(`Error extracting EXIF ${error}`, error?.stack);
     }
diff --git a/server/libs/common/src/utils/time-utils.ts b/server/libs/common/src/utils/time-utils.ts
index 1f7c5e2b8d..1f75f5c29d 100644
--- a/server/libs/common/src/utils/time-utils.ts
+++ b/server/libs/common/src/utils/time-utils.ts
@@ -1,12 +1,4 @@
-// This is needed as resolving for the vendored
-// exiftool fails in tests otherwise but as it's not meant to be a requirement
-// of a project directly I had to include the line below the comment.
-// eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/ban-ts-comment
-// @ts-ignore
-import { exiftool } from 'exiftool-vendored.pl';
-
 function createTimeUtils() {
-  const floatRegex = /[+-]?([0-9]*[.])?[0-9]+/;
   const checkValidTimestamp = (timestamp: string): boolean => {
     const parsedTimestamp = Date.parse(timestamp);
 
@@ -23,32 +15,7 @@ function createTimeUtils() {
     return date.getFullYear() > 0;
   };
 
-  const getTimestampFromExif = async (originalPath: string): Promise<string> => {
-    try {
-      const exifData = await exiftool.read(originalPath);
-
-      if (exifData && exifData['DateTimeOriginal']) {
-        await exiftool.end();
-        // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-non-null-assertion
-        return exifData['DateTimeOriginal'].toString()!;
-      } else {
-        return new Date().toISOString();
-      }
-    } catch (error) {
-      return new Date().toISOString();
-    }
-  };
-
-  const parseStringToNumber = async (original: string | undefined): Promise<number | null> => {
-    const match = original?.match(floatRegex)?.[0];
-    if (match) {
-      return parseFloat(match);
-    } else {
-      return null;
-    }
-  };
-
-  return { checkValidTimestamp, getTimestampFromExif, parseStringToNumber };
+  return { checkValidTimestamp };
 }
 
 export const timeUtils = createTimeUtils();
diff --git a/web/src/lib/components/asset-viewer/detail-panel.svelte b/web/src/lib/components/asset-viewer/detail-panel.svelte
index 0ad2979894..59c0c95348 100644
--- a/web/src/lib/components/asset-viewer/detail-panel.svelte
+++ b/web/src/lib/components/asset-viewer/detail-panel.svelte
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@
 						<p>{`ƒ/${asset.exifInfo.fNumber.toLocaleString(locale)}` || ''}</p>
 
 						{#if asset.exifInfo.exposureTime}
-							<p>{`1/${Math.floor(1 / asset.exifInfo.exposureTime)}`}</p>
+							<p>{`1/${asset.exifInfo.exposureTime}`}</p>
 						{/if}
 
 						{#if asset.exifInfo.focalLength}