Nikon users: Why can't I view my actuations in the EXIF Data lately?

[boxofrocks]

Can't see it in CS4 or Opanda EXIF viewer.

What am I missing? I used to be able to. I can't find them on my D3 or D300. Did Nikon change something?

As an example, below is one image from each camera.

[johnastovall]

Because activations aren't part of the EXIF data definition.

EXIF data fields.

More detailed information on EXIF data fields and definitions.

[boxofrocks]

I hate to disagree with you, but....read this

I'm positive I've seen it there before.

[johnastovall]

It's a Nikon-specific tag, so Adobe decided not to support it is the reason I would expect. Why should software vendors support non-standard items?

[boxofrocks]

Right, but you used to be able to see it with other exif viewers, and sometimes with PS.

I know there are some Nikon folks here that remember this. I wonder if Nikon changed that.

[johnastovall]

Originally Posted by boxofrocks

Right, but you used to be able to see it with other exif viewers, and sometimes with PS.

I know there are some Nikon folks here that remember this. I wonder if Nikon changed that.

Maybe Nikon decided to be come standards compliant.

Nikon has done other strange things to it EXIF data like encrypting the White Balance.

[dryicerx]

I agree with johnastovall, the shutter clicks are not part of EXIF. EXIF stores data that is relevant to the Photo, not the camera... but Nikon does add it (guess it's one of their defects :p )

I used exiv2 to extract all the meta data and looked just directly at the dump, there was a field named

aux:ImageNumber="9832"

That seems to be the actuation number, along with some other aux data (Nikon specific it seems).

aux:SerialNumber="2012579"
aux:LensInfo="1200/10 3000/10 28/10 28/10"
aux:Lens="120.0-300.0 mm f/2.8"
aux:ImageNumber="9832"

[billbunton]

CS4 file info for this image, under http://ns.adobe.com/exif/1.0/aux/ says aux:ImageNumber: 9832. Are you looking in the right place?

billbunton added 1 Minutes and 21 Seconds later...Double Post Merged Below

The standards allow camera manufacturers to put in maker-specific information in the makernotes section. That is exactly what Nikon is doing; they are fully EXIF compliant in doing so.

[dbphotos]

While not specific to Nikon images, maybe some of these suggestions can solve your problem. http://thedambook.com/smf/index.php?topic=3912.0

I'm still on CS3 so I can't really help. I guess I shoud upgrade before CS5 comes out. :-)

[dryicerx]

Just realized there were two pics, it's the same on the other one as well

aux:ImageNumber="18745"

[beavo451]

Odd.

I have D300 images from yesterday that show shutter activations in Opanda. Can you post a .jpg straight out of the camera?

[jeffkohn]

The standards allow camera manufacturers to put in maker-specific information in the makernotes section. That is exactly what Nikon is doing; they are fully EXIF compliant in doing so.

Agreed. This information is useful; to suggest that having it is somehow a bad thing is just silly.

[RKEnnis]

The "Preview" app in Mac OS X shows "Image Number: 9832" under the EXIF tab.

(Referring to the the first image, obviously)

[lhdvies]

Tom, my D700 & D300 both show up on my opanda exif. It is on the bottom left after the OOA2 then OOA3 the the next one is Total nbr of shots. However once you do some editing and use the "save as" to save it that portion does not show up. You have to get it from the original. Hope that helps!

[jeffkohn]

My experience is that opening an NEF in Photoshop, if I save it as PSD or JPEG all of the metadata is preserved. If I save it as TIFF, most of the metadata is preserved including the EXIF maker-notes; but I do lose GPS info if the file was geotagged.

I seem to recall that TIFF's generated by Capture or CaptureNX have incomplete metadata in them (which is kind of sad since you would think that if anybody can preserve the metadata from an NEF it should be Nikon).