Customizable EXIF Data import filter

A lot of EXIF data recorded by the camera doesn't show up in Aperture. And some EXIF data shows up in Aperture with meaningless numbers instead of clear text.
While it may be too much work for Apple to support the EXIF for every camera out there, the solution could be to integrate a customizable EXIF converter into Aperture. It is all about matching numbers to strings and Aperture could choose the right set automatically upon the camera model EXIF tag during import.
Make the sets exportable, so people can share their work.
Could look similar to the Spotlight search window, e.g. a popup to choose from the not already assigned EXIF tags, next to it a text-field to assign a meaningful label for the tag. Below either a checkbox to accept the value as is or expandable key/value pairs for the number coded EXIF data.
A + Button to add more keywords (and repeating the whole procedure above).
Come on Aperture team, it is that simple, I'm sure you could implement it in Aperture between dinner and afternoon tea.
Greetings
Peter

I am talking EXIF (data generated by my camera)
Some miising info, Camera make, Model, Lens, ISO, Focal Lentgh, Aperture, Speed, White Balance. etc etc
I veiw the miising info in Bridge CS6 its all there.
Camera Make model....Canon EOS 1DX
Aperture version 3.4.5
The problem has been happening aloong time , but I see on some images I took in 2012/11 on my Nikon D700 the Exif is there.
I have had some images off the CANON EOS 1DX so its not the camera.

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Inconsistent import of EXIF data for RAW images

As of the last month or so I have started to notice import issues related to EXIF data within Aperture. When I import images from a card into a new album, some of the images import EXIF data and others do not. This behavior is seemingly random and affects a subset of all images. Even images taken on the same card with the same camera seconds apart can have differing behavior. At first I presumed that it was a faulty CF card but I now see this behavior across multiple cards (CF, SDHC). Even more perplexing is that the EXIF data will be associated to some images when I import once, and after reimporting the same images once agin from the same source, some do not have the EXIF data. This inconsistent behavior leads me to believe there may be a bug in the import process.
Has anyone had a problem like this? Any advice?

Yes, it is weird. My experience matches zeroorone's. No EXIF inf. showed. I wasn't using a metadata preset that showed _all_ EXIF, but a lot of it, and all the "important ones". It seems reasonable to assume that none of the EXIF was showing.
Brand new installation of everything, less than 1 week old, all up-to-date (I am re-installing everything, slowly; porting nothing except some pref and support files, and data files). Only happened once so far (but on three consecutive imports).

Does the ipad preserve full resolution and exif data on imported photos?

If I import photos to my IPad2 using the 'camera connection kit',
a) How do I transfer those photos to my windows computer ?
b) Does the IPad2 preserve the full resolution and EXIF data etc of the photo ?
Thanks in advance for your answers !

There is help in this article (but basically your computer should see the iPad as a camera and should appear in windows explorer if there are non-synced photos i.e. taken with the iPad, transferred via CCK, or saved from emails/websites etc) : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4083
And, yes, the full photo and it's info is stored/copied i.e. they are the same as on the memory card.

Lightroom strips very valuable EXIF data - details

Hey everyone - I've just been playing around with some EXIF stuff, and I noticed something very concerning.
I do a lot of macro photography, specifically with Canon's MP-E 65mm 1x-5x Macro. This lens records its macro magnification factor in the EXIF data, and does so far more accurately and conveniently than I can.
I know that Lightroom and Photoshop strip out A LOT of obscure EXIF data when processed, but this magnification data is extremely valuable when reviewing my photos at a later date.
I can provide sample files if needed, and here is my observations so far:
- data stays intact when converting from .CR2 to .DNG
- data is stripped when converting to JPG, TIFF, and other formats
- data is stripped by both Lightroom and Photoshop
Here is the EXIF data (from exiftool) right from the Canon CR2 or DNG file (both are identical):
http://don.komarechka.com/exif/exif-original.txt
Here is the EXIF data (from exiftool) from a jpg that has gone through Lightroom:
http://don.komarechka.com/exif/exif-lightroom.txt
You'll notice a HUGE amount of extra data in the original raw file. It is certainly worth noting that the EXIF data in a JPG, unaltered from the camera, contains all of the same data as the RAW file.
So, is this something that has been overlooked, is there any way to change this behaviour? Even though Lightroom might not be able to decode this data, I don't see a reason why it cannot be left intact.
Thank you.
- Don Komarechka
http://don.komarechka.com

donkom wrote:
clvrmnky, thanks for your response.
Here's an example for you, the one I've been giving:
I shoot with a special macro lensm the Canon MP-E 65mm f/2.8 1-5x Macro. This lens does not zoom, but the magnification can change from 1x to 5x.This lens communicates its magnification to one decimal point accuracy to the camera, which adds it to the maker notes.
This is important in reviewing images for a number of reasons, including calculating the effective aperture and depth fo field. This is a valuable piece of information that is stored within the makernotes that is removed from the image when sending it through LR, Photoshop, or ACR.
That isn't the only valuable information, however.
The makernotes will tell me if the image was captured using LiveView, if Mirror Lockup was used, if the shot is part of a bracketed set, what the internal camera temperature was, etc. etc.
I'm not sure you've justified your reasoning behind why this block of data shouldn't be blindly copied. If it is removed simply because it is not understood, I would like the option to understand this data on my own, using third-party tools, after the image has left LR.
I understand that this can be proprietary, but likely far less so than the RAW file formats that LR and ACR already understand. It would be trivial to understand where this block of data begins and ends and to leave it in the file on export.
I think this would allow for more in-depth searching based on metadata, for whoever wants to take up that torch. For example, what if I want to see all macro photos I took at a 4x magnification or higher. What if I want to see all photo I took using LiveView. Even if LR doesn't want to do this, stripping the data out prevents anyone else from doing it in the future.
Well, there is an SDK for metadata that has been around for awhile, which allows for custom metadata definitions. But, according to the SDK:
"Values stored in custom metadata fields are stored only in Lightroom's database. In the current release, a plug-in cannot link custom metadata fields to XMP values or save them with the image file."
So, this is more for searching and interfacing with tagset plugins.
Even so, using the SDK to get at maker notes is a losing proposition.
Note that some metadata is proprietary and will not be read into the database. This is to be expected. Lr is not an arbitrary metadata reading app, and there is no guarantee that any app could read all metadata. For example, Lr tries its best to get the serial number info, but this is because there is a lot of value in that for other Lr operations. So the contortions necessary to reliably get that is worth it. Another example is lens info (which is a twisty maze of passages; no app is ever guaranteed to actually retrieve lens info reliably in all cases) where there is a lot of value trying to extract the information that makers often store in very interesting ways. In some of those cases I think Lr will look in the maker notes, but only after exhausting other avenues, and with the caveat that it may never be able to get some information. The app does its best to get at the most valuable info it can get that fits with the standardized metadata models in place.
However, the key here is that maker note data is not in exported files that Lr makes, because it is not normalized data that belongs to the vendor. (This obviates the recommendation of using Metadata Wrangler, which can filter out only that metdata that exists in Lr; I had vaguely remembered a setting that referred to this section but was wrong.)
The field and data formats are not standardized, so you are asking Lr to understand most or all data from all or most lenses and bodies (all of it in varying degrees of similarity and difference) not just data from this lens and this body.
This is also not a trivial matter of "copying" the maker notes over, because copying implies parsing and duplicating what is essentially unknown formatted data containing proprietary data, possibly by custom serialization routines. Remember that maker notes were never intended to be editable, and could be composed of any number of data formats. Some cameras make maker notes that are megabytes of nulls and nothing else!
I think you are out of luck for this specific case. Perhaps with EXIF 3 we will have a more standardized interface cameras and software can more easily interoperate on shared data. Makers need to stop using the maker notes! It was always an egregious hack.
One workaround I can think of is to have a post-export action that uses EXIFTool to update exported images. For those cases where it matters, you could create your own "sidecar" file that has only the maker notes, and then shove those into the JPEG after they are created, or just read it from the on-disk copy and then put it in the new file (possibly in the same directory and added back into the catalogue for convenience.)

EXIF data - Why is so much is missing in LRx but in RAW / DNG / CR2 images

I've seen the limitations in the EXIF data as shown in LR. I've seen the comments that it would be SO useful to sort / filter by all the EXIF data available in LR.
However LR shows a small proportion of the information that is available in the Meta data but there is missing EXIF data, that is of use to users, not every day, but it is there and with the aforementioned improvement of searching / sorting / grouping / stacking, I'd like this data to be accessible.
I was looking to find all the correctly exposed images in sets of 3 auto bracketted images -2, 0, +2 from todays shoot but this info is not listed in LR
So I looked in PhotoGrok, and it told me that the image I was looking at was AEBBracketValue -2, ie 2 stops under exposed in a set of auto bracket.
It also told me my camera was 37º when I was shooting in Cape Town this morning. It most certainly was not that warm outside.
My reason for finding the correctly exposed images in the sets was to see if they had sufficient exposure data to be used as one image rather than combining the 3 bracketted images using fusion / enBlend software to rescue the shadow detail and highlight detail in my shoot.
If you do play with PhotoGrok, you see more info than may be / is / could possibly be useful. But it does list a great deal.
I do get the basics
exposure
aperture
focal length
35mm equivalent
focal distance
hyperfocal distance
colour balance
AEBBracketValue
and the list goes on.
More importantly, this data has been extracted by LR from Canon 5DII CR2 files to DNG, so LR can see all this info.
Anyway, that is my request.
There is limited EXIF data displayed in LR, there are requests for sorting / searching / listing / stacking by more of the meta data that LR accesses.
I would like to see much more of this data available to be sorted / searched / stacked, so I can find amongst all the EXIF data, the AEBBracketValue = 0, ie correctly exposed images.
Rob Cole - Does your anyfilter access more of this info?
Hillrdg- you asked me to give my motivations for making suggestions, so I''ve taken your advise on board and to substantiate my argument.
yes, there is a workaround - It is to sort all the photos by capture time or file number and arrange them into 3 images in a grid view and just select the correct column, but this is slow. More importantly, this request is about vastly improving access to EXIF data and for other uses of the vast amount of EXIF data available in images.
hamish NIVEN Photography

EricInsalaco wrote:
Now I was under the impression Preview/Versions only take up a miniscule space on the HD since they don't FULLY copy the master file, they more create a bridge between the two that amounts to a few MB. Is it possible that it's taking up a much larger amount than intended here (a la the same basic mail attachment problem, but with Preview)? If so, what directory would that be located in?
Apple's documentation on Versions and what is kept in the Versions database is misleading, in my experience, though others will argue to the contrary.
In any case, all the Versions files and the database that keeps track of them are in an invisible folder in the root directory called
.DocumentRevisions-V100
The easiset way to check its size is to show invisible files by pasting the following command in Terminal:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE; killall Finder
press 'return' on the keyboard.
Now navigate to the hard disk in Finder and you should see DocumentRevisions and its size.
To turn off invisible files, use the same command as above but replace TRUE with FALSE.
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Is there a way to sort by date imported?

Hi everybody,
Is there a way to sort photos by the date they were imported, rather than by EXIF data?
If iPhoto 6 does not offer this option, does iPhoto '09?
The reason I ask is that not all my photos are from cameras. Some are scanned, and others are from e-mails. I'd also like the ability to simply ignore EXIF data since so many cameras are set to an incorrect date.
Thanks beautiful people!

No there isn't.
However, you can correct the dates on shots taken with cameras (Photos -> Adjust date and time) and add dates to scanned photos.
Regards
TD

What are the forensic limitations of Metadata & Exif Data+ Adobe Photoshop 3 question; e.g. Metadata

I have some questions regarding metadata, and exif data on digital cameras and its forensic limitations in Adobe photoshop 3;
For instance; After a picture is taken and has a metadata/exif digital stamp of the "picture being taken day" under what circumstances can that "picture being taken day" be changed?
Does the picture being taken day change when you import it into adobe photoshop 3 and add a caption?
Does it change only when the picture is edited, to perhaps add a white sidebar that says "family photo" or whatever?
Under what circumstances does the exif/metadata digital time stamp of the "picture being taken day" change?
Also, is it possible to change the picture being taken day on a photograph in adobe photoshop 3 manually?
Thanks-
Phil

I guess it would be easier to give you an example. The above picture shows the exif data as 9.11.2001. How is this possible if this is a 911 victim? In the top metadata, it says Adobe photoshop 3. I assume this is the program it was last edited in? Or was adobe software used exclusively in cameras back then perhaps? I am not sure, I just know I have many questions I really want answers to. Was the exif data changed perhaps in the above photo on 9.11.2001 to add that white sidebar, which says (Family photo) ?? Click the image below to see the screenshot of what I am looking at, this way we are on the same page or picture so to speak.
Any help you can give will be greatly appreciatted...
Thanks,
Phil

EXIF Dates - how to add/change using exiv2 . . . is there a better way?

Hi, everyone!
INTRO: I'm new to Lightroom. I've gone through a few books and lots of tutorial courses on lynda and youtube, so I feel quite comfortable with LR 5's import process. This post and question is a pre-import/organizational issue.
I have more than 30,000 old, digitized (scanned) photos dating back to the 1950s. Obviously, most of were taken with old, analog cameras. These are now organized into folders by date.
GOAL: I want to import these photos into LR and be able to find them by metadata dates (Capture Date & Time).
PROBLEM: Obviously, old scanned (or even more recent manipulated) photos often don't have the correct EXIF creation date info. Even worse, many (or most) of these old images don't even have an EXIF date field!
WHAT I'VE LEARNED: Using exiv2 filename or evix2 -pt filename immediately shows whether there is or is not date info for the photo. If there isn't, exiv2 -pt filename shows nothing. If there is an EXIF date field, it will be shown.
For all these images with no date field, if I import them into Lightroom, there of course is no date info that shows up in the Metadata panel (under Default or EXIF), nor can you change the date (because the field isn't even there).
If exiv2 -pt filename DOES show the Exif.Image.DateTime field, then in Lightroom, you will see the Capture Time and Capture Date fields, and you will see an icon to the right of those dates that allows you to change that date.
If exiv2 -pt filename DOES NOT show this Exif.Image.DateTime field, you can ADD this field by using the command line:
exiv2 -M"set Exif.Image.DateTime Ascii 1965:01:25 15:45:00" filename (or whatever your date/time is).
Now if you import this image into LR, you will find the Capture Time and Capture Date fields under the Metadata > Default panel...AND you can edit them if needed. That is, the above exiv2 -M command added the EXIF date field that LR needs in order to search by date.
WHAT'S MY POINT, AND WHAT'S MY QUESTION? I have no problem using exiv2 to add/change an EXIF creation DateTime field one folder at a time prior to importing them into LR. This will enable me to search on those date fields**.
My question is this: Is there an easier method?
Surely there must be tens (hundreds?) of thousands of "older" photographers like myself who have troves of old photos that have incorrect EXIF creation date fields, or missing the date field entirely (in which case, as I stated above, cannot be added/edited using LR, PS, FileMultiTool, Graphic Converter, etc.).
I realize that I could look at images based on the folder names or file names, or I could enter dates into tags, but such methods of finding images are not nearly as convenient as using Metadata. Therefore, if I know that an image was taken in June 1962, then I'd like the EXIF metadata to have this info so that I can search on it. To have no EXIF date field or to have a date field that is incorrect is useless.
I'D LOVE YOUR COMMENTS! If there is an easier or better way, I'd love for you to help! There are so many experienced photographers on this forum, and more than likely many of them have old photos with incorrect or missing EXIF date fields that they've brought into LR.
THANKS! I'll really appreciate any and all help you can offer.
David
** there are other EXIF date fields that can be changed using exiv2: Exif.Photo.DateTimeOriginal, Exif.Photo.DateTimeDigitized, etc. But the principal date that LR uses to search for files is the one described above.
P.S. I've also tried jhead -ds1965:01:25 filename (or whatever your date is) to change the date. This works ONLY IF there is already an EXIF date field present. If not, jhead will report an error and not create one. exiv2 -M will create the field.

John,
Thanks very much for your help! I had tried the plugin, exiv2, exiftool, and LR's Metadata menu option only on a single photo.
You are 100% correct about LR's menu option assigning different times! Thank you for pointing this out.
When I set the date and time for about 10 photos, LR's menu option assigned (seemingly random!) times to all of them. Why would LR do this? I can perhaps see offsetting each photo by 1 second (00, 01, 02,...), but simply assigning random times makes no sense at all. At least in the tests I just did, LR didn't shift the time by the same amount, but assigned totally (random?) times to every photo.
Another problem that I found with the LR menu item is that it failed to change the date/time at all for several of the images I selected! The Capture Time To Exif plugin, exiv2, and exiftool had no problem at all with the same photos.
I also looked at the ExifMeta by Rob Cole that you mentioned. It looks very powerful (and is free), but much more complex than what I need at this point.
Therefore, I purchased the Capture Time To Exif plugin, and it works great on multiple photos.
I now have good methods to change the date for multiple images:
1. Prior to import: exiv2 or exiftool
2. After import: John's Capture Time To Exif plugin
Thank you again for your help!
This brings me one step closer to importing my photos in a logical method.
David

EXIF data dropped when editing in Photoshop Elements 6.0 from iPhoto 8.0?

I've seen various posts about EXIF data issues, mostly about geo info. My question is:
Does iPhoto not include the EXIF data when you have it set to edit your photos in Photoshop Elements 6.0? The reason I ask is because I can easily see the EXIF data in iPhoto but when I choose to view the file info in PSE, it's not there - or at least in the detail that it was in iPhoto (i.e. camera make/model, aperture, ISO setting, shutter speed, etc.).
Anyone else notice this? What's going on here? Is this an issue with iPhoto 8.0?
Thanks for any insight and input.
Best regards,
Jason

Using Photoshop (or Photoshop Elements) as Your Editor of Choice in iPhoto.
1 - select Photoshop as your editor of choice in iPhoto's General Preference Section's under the "Edit photo:" menu.
2 - double click on the thumbnail in iPhoto to open it in Photoshop. When you're finished editing click on the Save button. If you immediately get the JPEG Options window make your selection (Baseline standard seems to be the most compatible jpeg format) and click on the OK button. Your done.
3 - however, if you get the navigation window that indicates that PS wants to save it as a PS formatted file. You'll need to either select JPEG from the menu and save (top image) or click on the desktop in the Navigation window (bottom image) and save it to the desktop for importing as a new photo.
This method will let iPhoto know that the photo has been editied and will update the thumbnail file to reflect the edit..
NOTE: With Photoshop Elements 6 the Saving File preferences should be configured: "On First Save: Save Over Current File". Also I suggest the Maximize PSD File Compatabilty be set to Always.
If you want to use both iPhoto's editing mode and PS without having to go back and forth to the Preference pane, once you've selected PS as your editor of choice, reset the Preferences back to "Open in main window". That will let you either edit in iPhoto (double click on the thumbnail) or in PS (Control-click on the thumbnail and seledt "Edit in external editor" in the Contextual menu). This way you get the best of both worlds
2 - double click on the thumbnail in iPhoto to open it in Photoshop. When you're finished editing click on the Save button. If you immediately get the JPEG Options window make your selection (Baseline standard seems to be the most compatible jpeg format) and click on the OK button. Your done.
3 - however, if you get the navigation window that indicates that PS wants to save it as a PS formatted file. You'll need to either select JPEG from the menu and save (top image) or click on the desktop in the Navigation window (bottom image) and save it to the desktop for importing as a new photo.
This method will let iPhoto know that the photo has been editied and will update the thumbnail file to reflect the edit..
I believe is you use PSE this way and then export out of iPhoto as Terence suggested you'll get the metadata.

From Bridge To PS To Export - EXIF Data Lost

Hi all,
I'm wondering what happens to my EXIF data when I import a Canon RAW file via ACR from Bridge to PS. When I export the file as a JPG and then right-click the jpg properties, none of the camera data is recorded. Perhaps there is a tick-box I've just not ticked?
Also, if I add keywords in Bridge, should they carry through the export process? I'm interested to know if it's possible to auto complete the keyword field in flickr when uploading an image.
CS5 with W7 and Canon 5Dii RAW.
Thanks in advance.

Can you be a little more explicit about the exact steps you're taking?
I just opened an image from Bridge into Photoshop by right-clicking a CR2 file, choosing Open In Camera Raw, then hitting the [Open] button in the Camera Raw dialog. Then I did File - Save As - JPEG, and all the camera metadata was retained (per Explorer's Properties, Details tab).
When you say "export", exactly how are you saving the file? With File - Save For Web & Devices, there's a Metadata field that allows you to specify how little or how much to keep.
-Noel

EXIF data filtered when exporting to Flickr

I've noticed that some EXIF data seems to be filtered out when exporting photos to Flickr via Aperture's built-in Flick exporter.
For example, if I export same photo using Flickr's upload page, then using Aperture's built-in Flickr exporter, then re-download original back to my computer, the fields like "lens size" are missing from the copy exported by Aperture.
There's few other fields that are silently filtered out by Aperture. Looking at the differences between two copies of the same photo re-downloaded back from Flickr, examples include fields such as digital zoom, subject distance, focus mode, macro mode, firmware version, serial number, owner name (and the list goes on)...
While one could argue that some fields contain personal information, there's my real name on my Flickr account, so having serial number or owner name in EXIF data removed is kind of pointless for my use case. Also, there's tons of photos I exported in the past to various photo sharing sites containing these headers anyhow.
I'd really like to preserve some interesting and useful (technical) fields such as lens size or subject distance. Is there a way to tell Aperture "I don't care, the world already knows this stuff, don't filter EXIF info when exporting"?

Hi Raja,
Not sure, what version are you in, but must not be in latest.
You have to write a e-text to get csv/txt of the desired format.
By default, if you are not in latest version, you will see some data when you select csv without E-text template

EXIF Data not showing up

I have a new iMac and I am trying to consolidate close to 40,000 photos into iPhoto. Initially everything was fine, but while importing a larger batch, the program locked up overnight. I had to force quit iPhoto. Of course this screwed up the library file, and after searching on these forums and others, I was able to recover everything by repairing thumbnails, repairing the database, etc.
However, now the exif data is no longer showing up in the info. pane (see below). I can only see the image size, file size, file type, and date - all of which appear to be correct. However, I no longer see the camera type, aperture, speed, ISO, etc. I have tried repairing everything again, to no avail. I have checked the exif data through the Finder and Preview. Some of it appears to be there (camera type), but not other things like aperture, speed, etc. I have imported new files after all of this mess and all the data shows up, no problem.
Any suggestions on what is happening/happened? I thought I would check here before trying to rebuild the library, or having to delete the Library and reimporting everything.

Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. (In early versions of Library Manager it's the File -> Rebuild command. In later versions it's under the Library menu.)
This will create an entirely new library. It will then copy (or try to) your photos and all the associated metadata and versions to this new Library, and arrange it as close as it can to what you had in the damaged Library. It does this based on information it finds in the iPhoto sharing mechanism - but that means that things not shared won't be there, so no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your events, albums and keywords, faces and places back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.

GPS info in EXIF data

I have read the threads regarding GPS data and Aperture. I understand how to insert GPS info in the raw files and then import that file into Aperture.
Is there a way to add GPS info (latitude and longitude) into an existing Aperture image or library without having to re-import the file? I don't want to do this for every image I have, but I would like to do it for my favorites that show up on my web site. I would prefer not to lose all of the adjustments for images that I have already slaved over.

Hello Kjell,
maybe you give gpsphotolinker a try. Before you
import your Fotos into Aperture you can manipulate
the exif with this app.
link->
http://oregonstate.edu/~earlyj/gpsphotolinker/index.ph
p
best regards
marek
Germany
Powerbook G4 1,67 GHz
Mac OS X (10.4.7)
Thanks for the tip. However, I do not shoot jpeg images, and would like a solution that supported my RAW/Aperture workflow - hopefully letting me avoid having to export my entire library out and re-importing it in again after the work is done.
Ideally, I would like a solution that would enable to to update my Aperture library from time to time using location information from a set of .gpx files, and for that to work, I would need some piece of sw that let me read out exif date/time data and compare with the same data in .gpx files and write back appropriate data when a date/time match is found.
However - not sure if Aperture would allow me to write exif data into the library at present?
Kjell Are Refsvik
Norway

GPS Altitude Not in Extended Photo Info or EXIF Dat ahwne exported

Hi,
I have my own website that uses a Goggle Maps plugin to read and show GPS info for photos I upload. When I use Places to capture that info the Altitude info is not stored either in iPhoto's database or in the EXIF info for the photo when exported. Is there anyway get this info stored in the database and phot when exported?
The Google Maps plugin on my site makes use of the Altitude details to show a more close up image depending on the altitude chosen. Without this info the site just shows a extremely high level world map with a pin showing in the country where the picture was taken. Not particularly useful. So I have to go and edit each file on my website and manually add this info. Which is very time consuming.

Jennec
iPhoto menu ==> provide iPhoto feedback
There is no provision in iPhoto to add altitude at this time - iPhoto should maintain the EXIF data that is imported - if it is not then I certainly would report that as a bug
When I show extended photo info in iPhoto for photos it shows the altitude - I presume it exports - will test later
LN

Lightroom 4 Export - EXIF data missing

I noticed that the EXIF data did not seem to be included in the jpeg file resulting from EXPORT.
I have double checked to make sure that under the METADATA section to select "ALL" and have both boxes (Remove Location Info & Write Keyword as Lightroom Hierarchy) unchecked.
Doing the same export in Lightroom 3 has no problem to include EXIF data in the JPEG file.
I am running the MAC version of the released Lightroom 4. Thank you in advance.

Hi Dorin, thank you for your reply. After reading your reply, I went back and checked my jpeg files carefully. You are correct that all the EXIF metadata are there.
My statement of 'missing' EXIF data was based on my EXIF data did not show up after I uploaded my JPG files to pBase, while all still worked well with Lightroom 3. Uploading the same set of jpeg files to other photo site like Picasa, the EXIF information is all there. Also, when I import those jpeg files in Lightroom 4, t=all the EXIF metadat are there too. It implies that it is a problem with pBase having probelm reading the EXIF of jpeg file from Lightrrom 4. Not sure what is the difference in Lightroom preparing the jpeg files, but I believe this 'missing EXIF' problem is site specific (i.e. pBase).
I will modfify the Topis to show pBase problem only if I can. Thank you.

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