diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 10da6bbe3f..8b21c8ca47 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -357,3 +357,7 @@
 2013-01-15  ChunEon Park (Hermet) <hermet@hermet.pe.kr>
 
         * Fix SIGFPE in evas map update if image size is 0.
+
+2013-01-22  Daniel Willmann <d.willmann@samsung.com>
+
+        * Fix evas gif loader to return the correct frame duration
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index e81a27e065..cd71349f35 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -124,3 +124,4 @@ Fixes:
     * Evas text utils: Fixed issue with no-harfbuzz bidi.
     * Fixed pixman surface alloc where allocated and image size differ.
     * Fixed x11 error sync issue with ecore_x_image_get()
+    * Fix evas gif loader to return the correct frame duration
diff --git a/src/modules/evas/loaders/gif/evas_image_load_gif.c b/src/modules/evas/loaders/gif/evas_image_load_gif.c
index 93d56fbdd3..b39bd90522 100644
--- a/src/modules/evas/loaders/gif/evas_image_load_gif.c
+++ b/src/modules/evas/loaders/gif/evas_image_load_gif.c
@@ -1024,7 +1024,7 @@ evas_image_load_frame_duration_gif(Image_Entry *ie, const char *file, const int
    if (frame_num < 0) return -1;
 
    f = eina_file_open(file, EINA_FALSE);
-   if (f) return -1;
+   if (!f) return -1;
 
    egi.map = eina_file_map_all(f, EINA_FILE_SEQUENTIAL);
    if (!egi.map) goto on_error;