Wierd shutter speeds

[psychedelic_never]

Hi all,
Yesterday I was on a bird shooting spree, with my DRebel and Tamaron 70-300 Di. The shoot went fine, but when i uploaded the images to the PC I was surprised to find that the EXIF had unsusal shutter speeds, like 1/501, 1/251, 1/318 and 1/403, ??? is this OK or some problem with my DRebel ?

Thanks

[scottbergerphoto]

:shock: Something's screwy!

[Cadwell]

What piece of software are you using to extract the EXIF information?

[Andy_T]

Maybe you have the hack installed.

I've read sometimes that it upgrades the D300 to D301.
So it might also give you faster shutter speeds.

:lol: .... just kidding, of course ... :lol:

Best regards,
Andy

[psychedelic_never]

For the images i had captured them RAW and converted them to TIFF using Canon File Viewer Utility and finally saved them as JPEG. I see this shutter speed in Photoshop ELements.

Andy no i haven't had the guts to upgrade the firmware as yet... :lol: i really wonder if i need the hidden features that much.

[karusel]

I think Tamron's teleconverter is notorious for screwing up the data, so I reckon it's the lens' fault, not the camera's

[psychedelic_never]

Thanks for the posts but i guess the real problem is with Photoshop elements, the shutter speed is shown perfect in Zoom Browser (or maybe its just rounded to the nearest 1/3 stop).
Any idea how the shutter speed is stored in EXIF (is it a real value or is it just a string of characters)

[robertwgross]

No, Tamron's teleconverter cannot change data. In some cases, there is lens data that does not pass all the way to the camera body.

Further, the data presented was shutter data, which is all within the camera body, not in the lens or teleconverter.

---Bob Gross---

[karusel]

Oh yeah, you're absolutely right. I'm pretty sure I've read somewhere that Tamron's TC incorrectly interprets aperture setting. Anyhow, the problem seems to have been resolved now 8)