Distance information in EXIF data and D60

[AJAC]

I'm a Spanish wild life (birds) amateur photographer. Currently I'm using as body EOS 1V HS and recently I entered the digital world. I use canon lenses and just yesterday I got a 400 f:2,8 IS objective (monster, but incredibly good).

In the digital world I had a D30 (nice machine) and now I got the D60 (much nicer, but far away from the EOS 1D). I must be one of the few who appreciate the 1,6 factor of the D30/D60 for my birding shoots.

The other day I reviewed EXIF data from both, with pictures I took with a Canon 100-400 IS zoom. I noticed that while the data from the D30 shows the distance to the object, depending on the EXIF viewer you use for the data from the D60, either the distance is wrong (Photoline) or is no data (EXIF Reader). Has somebody experienced the same effect? Is there any software upgrade that solves this? Is there any official comment from Canon?

[earl_damron]

I've noticed that the distance info that appears in BreezeBrowser seems incorrect a lot of the time. I agree that this errant info seems to be coming from the camera and not the software being used to view the EXIF data.

Thanks for bringing this up. I had forgotten about it.

[chris maddock]

ISTR that the problem is that not many lenses report the focussed distance at all, and those that do don't have many values to offer - that is, they report one of a number of values in a preloaded "table", they don't report the actual distance.

KRs
Chris

[AJAC]

Chris:

What I noticed is that my 100-400 EF provides what seems to be the correct distance (I don't know if from a predefined table) with the D30 body, but when I use the D60 body, I get either wrong distances with Photoline (too short) or no information at all with EXIFReader.

For me it is something related to the camera and my thinking goes in the direction to say that if D60 is higher level camera, should give all parameters the D30 gives. It is the reason why I was first asking somebody else to confirm the same effect, and second to ask if there is new software release and/or any comment on it from Canon

[AJAC]

When I was mentioning Photoline, I really wanted to say BreezeBrowser. I was changing the name in my two previous messages. Sorry if I created confusion