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Archive 2013 · EXIF for Canon mov files and picturs - made easy?

  
 
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p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · EXIF for Canon mov files and picturs - made easy?


So I fool around with picture profiles a lot, and sometimes during testing I'd like to know the settings I used quickly.

Canon's own "Digital Professional Photo" software will do this if you open the app, browse to the folder and select "info". Will give you all sorts of goodies like Picture profile, aperture, shutter speed, etc.

But I'm lazy. I want to just right click on a file and pull this information up without all the hassle.

So I found a tool that will do it, called "ExifTool" by Phil Harvey. Works great - except it wants you to continually run this from a command line OR drag the file in question to the executable. Still not handy enough for the lazy like me.

So here's the solution for Windows users (this should take like 5 minutes). This will probably require full control / Administrative rights on your PC.

Step 1 - Download the Windows version of "Exiftool" from this site (freeware):
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

You want the "Windows Executable", or exiftool-9.28.zip.
Download it to wherever you like. Extract the file to your "Windows" directory. You then rename the file to "EXIFTOOL.exe".

Step 2 - Download This zip file which contains the registry information for cr2 files and mov files. Doubleclick each .reg file to associate them (will need to be done as an Administrator).

Step 3 - Fire up Windows Explorer, and right click on any .cr2 or .mov file. You should see a box pop up that looks like the dos box below. If you want to not have to scroll the dos window each time, right click at the top left of the dos box and change the default buffer to 60.

I can add any other extensions you like, like jpgs, or you can dig in the registry and add you own.


Just thought I'd share!

Shawn












Edited on May 05, 2013 at 03:37 AM · View previous versions



May 04, 2013 at 11:41 PM
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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · EXIF for Canon mov files and picturs - made easy?


Update - added jpg registry settings. Working great.


May 04, 2013 at 11:53 PM
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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · EXIF for Canon mov files and picturs - made easy?


Added Sony raw (arw), m2ts, mkv, mp4, mpg. If anyone wants Nikon raw let me know. Zip file updated.

Oh yeah, updated to reflect ISO settings too. Sorry about that.

Here's a screenshot from right clicking on a Sony a99 raw file...







May 05, 2013 at 12:01 AM
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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · EXIF for Canon mov files and picturs - made easy?


Last post for now - I can get it to display GPS coordinates and about a billion other things if you like.


May 05, 2013 at 12:04 AM
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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · EXIF for Canon mov files and picturs - made easy?


How on FF can the "35 mm equivalent" be wider (131mm) than the FL of the lens (135mm)?

EBH



May 05, 2013 at 01:27 AM
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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · EXIF for Canon mov files and picturs - made easy?


It shows my Tamron 24-70 @ 23.6 or something at the widest end. No idea; it's just reading the raw file data.


May 05, 2013 at 01:59 AM
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p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · EXIF for Canon mov files and picturs - made easy?


Ok I'm really done for now.

Added avi, mpg, mp3, tif, vob and a few other movie types.



(Yes, I physically own multiple copies of Blood Sugar Sex Magik)







May 05, 2013 at 02:35 AM
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p.1 #8 · p.1 #8 · EXIF for Canon mov files and picturs - made easy?


Oh yeah - it shows the Tamron 24-70 2.8 as a "Sigma OR Tamron" and @ 24mm shows it as 23.3mm.









May 05, 2013 at 02:41 AM
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p.1 #9 · p.1 #9 · EXIF for Canon mov files and picturs - made easy?


Added some more camera info for the cr2's.







May 05, 2013 at 04:08 AM
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p.1 #10 · p.1 #10 · EXIF for Canon mov files and picturs - made easy?


So...any feedback either way?


May 06, 2013 at 01:18 PM
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p.1 #11 · p.1 #11 · EXIF for Canon mov files and picturs - made easy?


Shield

Thanks for doing this. I like this feature. Being an analyst myself, I have created a script which extracts all the EXIF info I need into a DB friendly format, which I then play around with on a database server



May 07, 2013 at 08:43 PM





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