I have been looking for Bob Boudreaus address to ask him a question about a digital cameras ability to see expsoure data from the images file. To date, I have only been told that Adobe Bridge would work. I feel there must be some other way to extract shutter speed and aperature without buying another expensive peice of software.
Anybody know how this might be done?
Well… If you are using a Mac, just click once on the photo to highlight it, then go to File/Get Info. The window that comes up will have all that information about the file in it. Have no idea if you can do anything like that with a PC or not.
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Thanks howmus but I have aPC.
However, I managed to get an answer at least for jpeg images. Simply right click on the image and select properties and there they are. Magic.
I figured there would be something similar on the PC side… Glad you found out how to get the info.
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If you use the free photo editing program called irfanview, you can get all sorts of info out of your jpg photos.
http://smile.webshots.com/images/fd9f4960fa56012fe68a12313f013977/jpg/800x
For example this photo of my souvenir cars contains the following information when you view the EXIF data using irfanview.
File: - D:\Mynewpictures\2011_12_21SouvenierCarriages\slide_7170.JPG
Make - Canon
Model - Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL
Orientation - Top left
XResolution - 72
YResolution - 72
ResolutionUnit - Inch
DateTime - 2011:12:21 22:47:13
YCbCrPositioning - Co-Sited
ExifOffset - 196
ExposureTime - 1/60 seconds
FNumber - 4.00
ExposureProgram - Normal program
ISOSpeedRatings - 800
ExifVersion - 0221
DateTimeOriginal - 2011:12:21 22:47:13
DateTimeDigitized - 2011:12:21 22:47:13
ComponentsConfiguration - YCbCr
ShutterSpeedValue - 1/60 seconds
ApertureValue - F 4.00
ExposureBiasValue - 0.00
MeteringMode - Multi-segment
Flash - Flash fired, compulsory flash mode, red-eye reduction mode
FocalLength - 18 mm
UserComment -
FlashPixVersion - 0100
ColorSpace - sRGB
ExifImageWidth - 3456
ExifImageHeight - 2304
InteroperabilityOffset - 9230
FocalPlaneXResolution - 3954.23
FocalPlaneYResolution - 3958.76
FocalPlaneResolutionUnit - Inch
CustomRendered - Normal process
ExposureMode - Auto
WhiteBalance - Auto
SceneCaptureType - Standard
Maker Note (Vendor): -
Macro mode - Normal
Self timer - Off
Quality - Fine
Flash mode - On + red-eye reduction
Sequence mode - Continous
Focus mode - AI Focus
Image size - Large
Easy shooting mode - Manual
Digital zoom - None
Contrast - High , +1
Saturation - High , +1
Sharpness - High , +1
ISO Value - 32767 (other)
Metering mode - Evaluative
Focus type - Auto
AF point selected -
Exposure
Any photo editing software should provide what is known in the industry as “EXIF” data for each image, Bruce. I happen to use FastStone, but as said above, when you open an image file to full view, and right click on it anywhere, the software should provide you with at least a comprehensive summary from the EXIF date.
http://www.digicamhelp.com/glossary/exif-data/
Crandell
On Windows 7 you do not even need a photo program to view this data, Just right click, select Properties, and then open the Details tab.
In Firefox you can install an EXIF extension that will display that data from any photo in your browser providing that the photo came from the camera, and was not reprocessed somehow, in which case the data may or may not still be there.
ROAR
PCs work exactly the same way. Right click on the file, and select the Details tab. It will have all the photo data, including the size, date and time, camera model, f-stop, exposure, ISO, focal length, aperature, and other camera-specific detaisl liek if the flash was used, red eye reduction was used, and so forth.
–Randy
Use Picasa. It’s a free photo album/lightweight edit program for windows. Google makes it. From within Picassa, right click on the photo and Picassa will display everything you could ever want, including shutter speed and f stop. I use it for all my photo work. It will download photos from the camera, organize them on hard drive, adjust contrast, color balance and crop, and label them. The labels stick and will upload to photobucket. Picasa beats the hell out of the software that came with the camera.
In Win XP, it is under Properties > Summary, & if you have not dun it yet, > Advanced
In XP once you went there it will, (may) show that as a Default…
Best of Luck!