gheumann
12th of February 2003 (Wed), 18:49
Howdy, Fellow D60 users. I have been lurking a bit - but I also hang out at dpreview, photosig, and way too many other places. It is a sickness. So I haven't posted here yet.
I've been shooting with my D60 for about 3 weeks now, having "graduated" from an Oly E-10 I've been using for about 2 years. I am in awe of the D60's speed, flexibility and image quality. Still learning every time I shoot!
There are a few issues I haven't been able to resolve yet and I'm hoping someone here may know something others don't.
1) Canon includes a good deal of helpful data in the EXIF metadata. Unfortunately Photoshop throws a good deal away, such as lens (although focal length is preserved), focus setting, active focus points, and the state of all the custom settings. I've searched but found no 3rd party utilities that help. We had a good discussion about this over at the Photoshop Techniques forum (highly recommended for PS junies) so I won't recount the entire story here. You can view it at http://photoshoptechniques.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2978
Suffice it to say that I looked into a shareware program called "Metareader" which MAY help some of you if this has been an issue for you. (See http://www.pixelgenius.com/metareader.html ) - but it isn't carbonized for OS X so I can't (or should I say won't) use it. In figuring THAT out, Jeff Schewe (of PixelGenius) said:
"As far as reading all the metadata contained in your EXIF fields, there are "Public" and "Private" tags contained in the EXIF spec. The problem with Canon and the other camera makers is that some of the fields are private undocumented fields that public EXIF readers can't parse. So, all the metadata that Photoshop 7 can show are the public data tags in your D60 files. The other fields are private data tags that only Canon software can read.
This is a shortcomming of the EXIF spec. Also, Canon SHOULD be making those tags available as they are useful. Complain to Canon. "
I should also say that I DO have the Canon File Viewer Utility which gets at this data, but it is amazingly slow and cumbersome on the Mac - and I prefer to work in one program instead of two - so unless I'm need to convert RAW I don't use it.
Any comments/insights on this subject?
2) the last part of the above leads me to Q2, which is "Is there a good, fast RAW-handling utility, like MacBibble (which doesn't support the D60 - yet anyway) for the Mac? Ideally as a PS plug-in?
I will be at Photoshop World next week and I plan to hammer Adobe about this - so if I get any news I will let you know here.
Thanks for listening. I've posted some of my D60 work at http://www.heumann.com/d60 in case anyone is interested.
I've been shooting with my D60 for about 3 weeks now, having "graduated" from an Oly E-10 I've been using for about 2 years. I am in awe of the D60's speed, flexibility and image quality. Still learning every time I shoot!
There are a few issues I haven't been able to resolve yet and I'm hoping someone here may know something others don't.
1) Canon includes a good deal of helpful data in the EXIF metadata. Unfortunately Photoshop throws a good deal away, such as lens (although focal length is preserved), focus setting, active focus points, and the state of all the custom settings. I've searched but found no 3rd party utilities that help. We had a good discussion about this over at the Photoshop Techniques forum (highly recommended for PS junies) so I won't recount the entire story here. You can view it at http://photoshoptechniques.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2978
Suffice it to say that I looked into a shareware program called "Metareader" which MAY help some of you if this has been an issue for you. (See http://www.pixelgenius.com/metareader.html ) - but it isn't carbonized for OS X so I can't (or should I say won't) use it. In figuring THAT out, Jeff Schewe (of PixelGenius) said:
"As far as reading all the metadata contained in your EXIF fields, there are "Public" and "Private" tags contained in the EXIF spec. The problem with Canon and the other camera makers is that some of the fields are private undocumented fields that public EXIF readers can't parse. So, all the metadata that Photoshop 7 can show are the public data tags in your D60 files. The other fields are private data tags that only Canon software can read.
This is a shortcomming of the EXIF spec. Also, Canon SHOULD be making those tags available as they are useful. Complain to Canon. "
I should also say that I DO have the Canon File Viewer Utility which gets at this data, but it is amazingly slow and cumbersome on the Mac - and I prefer to work in one program instead of two - so unless I'm need to convert RAW I don't use it.
Any comments/insights on this subject?
2) the last part of the above leads me to Q2, which is "Is there a good, fast RAW-handling utility, like MacBibble (which doesn't support the D60 - yet anyway) for the Mac? Ideally as a PS plug-in?
I will be at Photoshop World next week and I plan to hammer Adobe about this - so if I get any news I will let you know here.
Thanks for listening. I've posted some of my D60 work at http://www.heumann.com/d60 in case anyone is interested.