Searching iPhoto Photo Info

I can't get Spotlight to find photo info - specifically "metering mode." If I create a new smart folder and then select "other" at the bottom of the "Kind" button I can pick "Metering mode" from the list.
So I end up with this search: metering mode is spot (or pattern, multispot, etc.) I can't get any hits at all. I've looked at the info for certain photos so I know I have photos shot with spot metering but spotlight will not find them.
I get results when I use this method to search for iso speed but can't get the metering mode search to work. Any ideas?

Brad,
Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
I believe your camera takes digital photos at 5 MP (megapixels), not MB (megabytes). If the pixel info is correct, and when you multiply width by height you get about 5 million, then everything is fine. When I set my camera to the least amount of compression my 7.1 megapixel images range in size from 2.6 MB to 3.2 MB. Previously when I used slightly more compression in the camera, my images were sized from 1.4 MB to 2.5 MB. I think your numbers sound reasonable. Check your camera settings to see that you are using the "finest" compression setting it offers.
iPhoto does not compress your photos. One of its core philosophies is to preserve the image in the same condition as when you imported it.
How you archive your photos depends on how you wish to use the archive. If you want to preserve the iPhoto metadata, then use Share> Burn from inside iPhoto to save a version that can be read by iPhoto. If all you want archived is a list of image files, to be used on any computer, (no iPhoto metadata) then you select your pictures and Export to a desktop folder, which you then burn in the Finder. You will have options in the export dialog; you can have the full-sized images or downsize them during the export process.

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I restored the whole library from my backup.
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It's says that file does not exist. How come?
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First of all, I apologize if this has been answered more than once. I am new to these forums and after being frustrated for about 30 minutes because I could not find a search facility for the forums, I eventually found this post telling me it was temporarily turned off (!):
http://discussions.apple.com/ann.jspa?annID=639
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