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Mike's Software => Qimage Ultimate => Topic started by: CHoffman on February 16, 2022, 02:37:51 PM



Title: Odd exif behavior
Post by: CHoffman on February 16, 2022, 02:37:51 PM
Not even sure this is real, but I think I've noticed it twice. I create a directory and dump in a bunch of camera images, jpgs and raw. I launch Qimage and go to the directory and let the rendering stuff happen. At that point, if I hover over an image or use the exif viewer, the aperture and focal lengths come up zero for all images. Other data is there. Closing Qimage and relaunching doesn't fix it. Then (I think) I do a raw refine on one image. After that the exif data shows up for all images. Am I crazy or can you reproduce this? Not sure it even matters, since I invariably refine and/or edit.


Title: Re: Odd exif behavior
Post by: admin on February 17, 2022, 12:59:24 PM
I don't see anything like that but it may depend on the image(s).  What camera model are these images from?

Regards,
Mike


Title: Re: Odd exif behavior
Post by: CHoffman on February 18, 2022, 01:03:46 AM
Nikon Z6.


Title: Re: Odd exif behavior
Post by: admin on February 18, 2022, 02:22:56 AM
Not seeing any problem with Z6 raws but there have been a couple improvements to the EXIF reading capabilities in the past few months.  If you are working with old raws that had been previously built, a prior version could have created bad EXIF info.  Then when you refine, it forces it to update and the new version has better EXIF reading so it fills in the values.

Mike


Title: Re: Odd exif behavior
Post by: CHoffman on February 18, 2022, 04:45:36 PM
These are raws and jpegs right from the camera, so no prior version involved. I do use somewhat weird settings in my raw preferences, mostly sharpening and noise shut off (zero, zero, off, off).