About the EXIF data....

On 1/11/05 11:20 PM, in article ,
"Jack" wrote:

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 04:04:27 GMT, C Wright
wrote:


The file Browser in my copy of PS CS has an entry in the EXIF for the 20D
for both focal length and lens. The lens entry may not be quite as specific
as you are looking for but, for example, if I am using my 24-70mm it says:
24-70. It does not say 24-70 f2.8L USM - if you are looking for something
that specific.
Chuck

I just checked my PS CS browser again to see if there's any reference
to the lens as you indicated. I couldn't find any at all. Do you
have to turn on some function in PS or the 20D?

Yes - in the data display in the lower left corner of the File Browser make
sure that the Metadata tab is clicked; then click the small arrow to the
right of that and you will be able to choose data display options. In mine
the 'lens' entry was checked by default, perhaps that was not the default in
yours.

Yes - in the data display in the lower left corner of the File Browser make
sure that the Metadata tab is clicked; then click the small arrow to the
right of that and you will be able to choose data display options. In mine
the 'lens' entry was checked by default, perhaps that was not the default in
yours.
Found it! I unchecked the "hide empty fields" and the lens field is
visible now, but empty! Perhaps the 20D doesn't record this info?

Jack wrote:

Found it! I unchecked the "hide empty fields" and the lens field is
visible now, but empty! Perhaps the 20D doesn't record this info?


Is it an older manual lens?

Jack wrote:

Found it! I unchecked the "hide empty fields" and the lens field is
visible now, but empty! Perhaps the 20D doesn't record this info?


Is it an older manual lens?

A bit off topic from the OP...

Does anyone know a utility that will easily create text files for the
exif info simply by right-clicking selected files in explorer?

BreezeBrowser does a nice job of this but it's still pretty tedious
firing up the program, browing to that folder, mucking through menus
etc. Other programs like Exifer are similarly complex at creating comma
delimited files. It'd be nice to have an editable config file to choose
the fields you want & maybe add formatting like html.

JHead is a command line utility that could be used to write a script
maybe to handle multiple files. I don't know what it'd take to run that
from a right-click menu but it'd be a very simple fast thing. I could do
that with PHP but it'd be a pain going to that screen. I tried jhead
with a batch file but a script is needed to handle multiple files.

myimage01.jpg myimage01.txt
myimage02.jpg myimage02.txt
myimage03.jpg myimage03.txt

A bit off topic from the OP...

Does anyone know a utility that will easily create text files for the
exif info simply by right-clicking selected files in explorer?

BreezeBrowser does a nice job of this but it's still pretty tedious
firing up the program, browing to that folder, mucking through menus
etc. Other programs like Exifer are similarly complex at creating comma
delimited files. It'd be nice to have an editable config file to choose
the fields you want & maybe add formatting like html.

JHead is a command line utility that could be used to write a script
maybe to handle multiple files. I don't know what it'd take to run that
from a right-click menu but it'd be a very simple fast thing. I could do
that with PHP but it'd be a pain going to that screen. I tried jhead
with a batch file but a script is needed to handle multiple files.

myimage01.jpg myimage01.txt
myimage02.jpg myimage02.txt
myimage03.jpg myimage03.txt

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 12:17:42 -0800, paul wrote:

Jack wrote:

Found it! I unchecked the "hide empty fields" and the lens field is
visible now, but empty! Perhaps the 20D doesn't record this info?


Is it an older manual lens?

No, they were the 17-85 IS USM & 70-200 L IS USM lens

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 12:17:42 -0800, paul wrote:

Jack wrote:

Found it! I unchecked the "hide empty fields" and the lens field is
visible now, but empty! Perhaps the 20D doesn't record this info?


Is it an older manual lens?

No, they were the 17-85 IS USM & 70-200 L IS USM lens

On 1/12/05 1:38 PM, in article ,
"Jack" wrote:


Yes - in the data display in the lower left corner of the File Browser make
sure that the Metadata tab is clicked; then click the small arrow to the
right of that and you will be able to choose data display options. In mine
the 'lens' entry was checked by default, perhaps that was not the default in
yours.
Found it! I unchecked the "hide empty fields" and the lens field is
visible now, but empty! Perhaps the 20D doesn't record this info?

It works for all of the lenses that I have for the 20D! I guess that it
could be possible that it does not work for some lenses. What mode do use
with your camera, the Automatic modes in the Basic Zone? I always use the
Creative modes. While this is a long shot suggestion because I have not
tested it, it may be possible that the Basic Zone modes do not record as
much information.