Sunday, April 4, 2010

Importing Canon EXIF data into Lightroom

Hi,



sorry if this is a stupid question...

I noticed that when using Canon Image Browser software, that the amount of image information is much more extensive than what I can see in both LR and in Bridge. As an example: In Canon Image Browser I get data for flash exposure compensation, in Bridge and LR I do not have detailed flash information.



Any suggestions?



Also, does anybody know if it is planned to add the feature where you can see the AF point(s) (again, I see it in Image Browser, but not in Bridge or LR)



Thanks,



VR
Importing Canon EXIF data into Lightroom
Such proprietary info as this is unlikely to be added. Possibly camera specific third party modules may do this for you, once the SDK is released and someone gets around to developing such a thing.



Don



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Importing Canon EXIF data into Lightroom
Most Canon's MakerNotes tags are ''public secret'', which means: there's no official documentation, but everybody knows them :-)



As FEC info resides in the same (MakerNotes) section as some other info (which is recognised by LR), it shouldn't be difficult for LR to show FEC value too. I believe there could be other problem...

LR should deliver same infos for all camera brands and maybe FEC value of some other brand isn't so easy to ''decode''. So, it wouldn't be ''fair'' if LR would show particular values only for some brand. There's no other reason I can think of.



In regard of focus points.. I don't miss that info at all -and even Canon's DPP doesn't show them up.



Bogdan

While all that is true, one thing I think the team should add is the ability to read the ISO data out of the Canon P%26amp;S JPEGs. The last couple of years worth of Canon JPEGs don't put ISO in the right place but I know where it is and how to decode it (as do many others). Thankfully, Canon seems to be putting ISO back where it belongs in their new P%26amp;S cameras.
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