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EXIF editing software

Postby Nnnnsic on Wed Mar 29, 2006 2:41 pm

I'm trying to add some of the data frim when I shoot on fully manual lenses back into the image and I'm not having much luck finding a good EXIF editor.

Has anyone found one yet?
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Postby owen on Wed Mar 29, 2006 2:43 pm

Hi Leigh, have you tried Exifier? I know that you can export and then import, but unsure whether you can manually enter the exif data.

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Postby gstark on Wed Mar 29, 2006 2:45 pm

I believe that Stubbsy may have gotten some with his newly acquired 5D

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Re: EXIF editing software

Postby moz on Wed Mar 29, 2006 2:47 pm

I've used the export/import functions of BreezeBrowser to good effect, as well as playing with Exifer. BB worked for me because I was doing bulk entry of basic details to a lot of scans.
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Postby DStrom on Wed Mar 29, 2006 2:52 pm

your other option is to just use a good text editor, as much of the data is in plain text. :roll:
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Postby radar on Wed Mar 29, 2006 3:14 pm

Hi Leigh,

A great tool is exiftool - no prize for guessing the name!

http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

All you need is perl. On the page above, there is a link to a Windows perl interpreter. I use it and it's easy and very powerful. BTW, would also be easy to automate a large exif change to multiple files.

It will run on Windows, Macs, Linux, probably even Atari :wink:

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Postby gooseberry on Wed Mar 29, 2006 4:02 pm

Yep, I'd go with radar's suggestion of exiftool. It's a great piece of software. Can extract and edit exif/metadata from a wide range of file formats including NEFs.
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Postby myarhidia on Wed Mar 29, 2006 4:17 pm

have a look at Opanda Exif located here

http://www.opanda.com/en/pe/download.htm
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Postby stubbsy on Wed Mar 29, 2006 4:42 pm

gstark wrote:I believe that Stubbsy may have gotten some with his newly acquired 5D

:)

And that tool is Opanda Power EXIF. With the registered version you can replace ANY EXIF data - even move it between images.
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Postby Alpha_7 on Wed Mar 29, 2006 5:15 pm

Peter, when are we going to see some shots from your new kit ? :wink:
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Postby leek on Wed Mar 29, 2006 6:09 pm

DStrom wrote:your other option is to just use a good text editor, as much of the data is in plain text. :roll:


You need to be very careful with that though... For a couple of challenges, I tried to remove my EXIF using notepad and it managed to corrupt the image and I had to reprocess... I now use Jstrip to remove all the extraneous EXIF.
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Postby DStrom on Wed Mar 29, 2006 6:43 pm

leek wrote:You need to be very careful with that though... For a couple of challenges, I tried to remove my EXIF using notepad and it managed to corrupt the image and I had to reprocess... I now use Jstrip to remove all the extraneous EXIF.


True, I should have added some sort of attempt at your own risk, and I did have some problems with notepad, but I have been able to edit the exif using better text editors such as notpad2 and gedit (in linux).

None the less you would be much better off using an app that is made for the task.
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