Saving EXIF data under Linux

[dgkimpton]

I'm currently using GPhoto2 to download the JPEG files off my Canon G2 under Linux.

As far as I can tell the data about the camera settings for each shot is not being saved.

Does anyone here know if there are any Linux programs that will download this data or if it is being downloaded already can anyone tell me how to read it?

Thanks.

[djrm]

copied extract out of a file exif.pl probably downloaded from www.breezesys.com:

# PERL script to extract EXIF information from JPEGs generated by Canon
# digital cameras.
# This software is free and you may do anything like with it except sell it.
#
# Current version: 1.3
# Author: Chris Breeze
# email: chris@breezesys.com
# Web: http://www.breezesys.com
#
# Based on experimenting with my G1 and information from:
# http://www.ba.wakwak.com/~tsuruzoh/Computer/Digicams/exif-e.html
#
# Also Canon MakerNote from David Burren's page:
# http://www.burren.cx/david/canon.html
#
# More EXIF info and specs:
# http://exif.org

I expect this would work under linux, but I havn't tried it.
hth Dave

[onehotrx7]

Have a look at:

http://users.bigpond.net.au/thomas/exif.html

I believe that they have something for Linux there...

Cheers,
Stuart Elflett

[dgkimpton]

Thanks guys, I'll take a long look at this stuff over the weekend and let you know how I get on.

I've scripted up the comand line version of Gphoto2 so that downloading from the camera is simplicity itself, now if I can get the EXIF data reading into that script as well it should be possible to have the script do everything one could ask of it.