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Missing file information.

Postby baboo on Sat Jul 09, 2005 9:20 am

G'day all,

I've just been having another look-see as some of my photos and have noticed that some of the camera data seems to be missing.

I'm using Photoshop CS and when I call up the file information there is nothing recorded for the shutter speed and ISO speed rating.

ISO setting also does not appear when I view the actual file properties.

Is there something I've forgotten to do?

The data is there when I call it up on the camera but doesn't seem to have transferred over.

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Postby gstark on Sat Jul 09, 2005 9:45 am

Ray,

How are you shooting, an how are you moving the files from your camera to your pc?

Is the data attached to the filles on the pc immediately after moving them from the camera?

Do you work with the files that you've transferred, or do you work with a copy of them, and how are you then saving your work?
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Postby baboo on Sat Jul 09, 2005 9:54 am

Gary, at the moment I'm just taking them as JPEG files.

They are then copied directly onto the computer before being 'touched-up' a little in photoshop and saved.

Do I need to be shooting using RAW format to transport the data across?

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Postby gstark on Sat Jul 09, 2005 10:59 am

baboo wrote:Do I need to be shooting using RAW format to transport the data across?


No, not at all. I just wanted to get a picture of your workflow to start with.

When you go to save an image, are you just saving it, saving as, saving for web .... ???
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Postby baboo on Sat Jul 09, 2005 11:08 am

I'm saving the file and setting it for max file size.

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Postby gstark on Sat Jul 09, 2005 11:20 am

baboo wrote:I'm saving the file and setting it for max file size.

Ray


Try "Save As" instead of saving ....

And also check to ensure that the data is all there before you start working on the image.

Also, consider the benefits of capturing the images in raw; jpg is a lossy format, and you've lost (picture) data before you even begin. There's almost no speed penalty to shooting raw, but you gain so much more in POP opportunities ...
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Postby pippin88 on Sat Jul 09, 2005 5:06 pm

Doesn't the D70 record a few things in odd places in EXIF? That arn't picked up by lots of software?

I'd definatley go RAW. I shot 10,000 images before changing to Raw and I regret it. RAW is so much more versatile and I have an incresibly improved rate of keeping images simply do to easy exposure alterations etc.
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Postby baboo on Sat Jul 09, 2005 5:36 pm

With using RAW images, do people then keep both the RAW file and JPEG file?

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Postby pippin88 on Sat Jul 09, 2005 6:04 pm

baboo wrote:With using RAW images, do people then keep both the RAW file and JPEG file?

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I shoot Raw, not Raw + JPEG.

I only convert photos for display on the web, and for that I do keep the web sized jpgs, but these are negligable in size.

I never delete an original. This was the same with JPEG.
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