EXIF data not viewable w/ Image Capture

[fwhitesides]

Hello all. I'm a recent Canon convert. I traded in my trusty Nikon F4 and a few lenses to get a brand new Digital Rebel with the 18-55 lens. It's been 3 days and I'm loving the DRebel.

I use it primarly with my Mac laptop (OS X), and I noticed that when I important photos through Image Capture (using either communication mode PTP or "Normal" ) that the EXIF data is not visible when I browse with Canon File Browser. If I import with the CFB, the EXIF data is visible. Also, I noticed that if I open the Image Capture(d) files with Photoinfo (an app that lets you modify the EXIF date and time), the data is there, but CFB can't read it.

Has anyone else noticed this? I don't mind using CFB to import, but Image Capture is much faster and easier to use, and offers a ton of automatic cropping features that are way handy. Ideally, I'd like to import with Image Capture and then do any specialized processing (like RAW converting) with CFB. Any ideas, or am I stuck with CFB only?

Thanks.

[bchaplin]

I'm happy to have finally figured out the answer to this question, because I was having the same problem:

On my Mac, which is running 10.2.5, and using my Canon S400, importing using Image Capture would result in no EXIF data being displayed in Canon's File Viewer Utility, and incomplete EXIF data being displayed in other apps that I use.

However: if when Image Capture prepares to download my photos, I first click 'Options', and then uncheck the 'Embed Colorsync profile' tab, the problem is solved.

According to the Canon pamphlet that carried this suggestion (it came with the camera, and is labeled 'For Windows XP and Mac OS X Users'), this is because otherwise the EXIF version of the image file is changed from version 4 to version 2.1, losing EXIF data in the process.