Selecting 'get info' displays some but not all of the Exif data of my RAW photos. If I export the original and open with Preview it's possible to view all the Exif data. How can I do this in Photos (where it is most needed!)? I use a fujifilm x100s.
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10)
What info is missing? We can check and see if they have added it in El Capitan. Otherwise, you need to send Apple feedback.
Here is what I get with the latest El Capitan. I assume you want more. 8^)
In Photos I have this:
In Preview inspector shows me:
You can open Preview directly from Photos for Mac, if you upgrade to El Capitan and Photos 1.5.
Photos on El Capitan supports Photo Editing Extensions. You open these extensions from the Edit panel. The "External Editors" extensions allows your to open your photo in different applications. It is available from the AppStore.
And then you can open the Inspector in Preview:
I have this external editors extensions installed already. You have to jump through a number of hoops to get to this stage and often the reason I'm looking for Exif data is to compared one photo against another. So going via the external editors route is not really an option.
Ideally I'm looking to see Exif data as when in Aperture. That data view would change with one click to the next photo, just as does the 'get info' data changes.
I know, it is annoying. For some cameras does Photos simply not recognize the EXIF lens tag.
At least Preview recognizes your lens, but for my new Lumix FZ 300 neither Preview nor Photos nor Aperture do recognize the EXIF lens tag, if I shoot JPEGS; the tag is only recognized for the RAW images.
iPhoto and Photos have never been able to display as much EXIF data as Preview can.
iPhoto Photos
Preview
You can drag the RAW photos thumbnail onto the Preview icon in the Dock to quickly view the EXIF data. Or purchase the free EXIF Viewer for Mac OS X app from the App Store and access Preview from within Photos Edit/Extensions/External mode.
For jpegs and tiff fileS you can do the same thing with the free EXIF Viewer for Mac OS X, i.e. either drag to the icon in the Dock or access via Photos/Edit/Extensions/External Editors mode
Hmm, I wonder if the extensions have the EXIF data available to them....
One if the app that the extension invokes can read the EXIF data. Preview and Exif Viewer can be accessed thru the extensions and that one app but it's quicker to drag the file's thumbnail to Preview's or EXIF Viewer's icon in the Dock than go thru the Edit/Extensions route.
I was thinking of creating an extension that shows the EXIF data right in Photos.
You could make good $$$$ with one like that.
Keith Barkley wrote:
Hmm, I wonder if the extensions have the EXIF data available to them....
I was thinking of creating an extension that shows the EXIF data right in Photos.
the extensions can access the originals. And could call exiftool.
The bottleneck is, that we would have to click through to edit mode to be able to call that extension. It was a poor design decision on the part of the developers to limit the access to editing extensions to Edit mode. So we cannot access them directly from the browser and cannot compare edits side by side.
Well, using edit mode is better than nothing!
Very true, Keith! Such an extension would be useful to have.
EXIT viewer works just fine in edit mode
I'm not sure it is still available but it is a good utility
EXIF Viewer
Version 2.7.1, released 10/3/09
By Ali Ozer, aozer@mac.com
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EXIF Viewer is a small Mac OS X application to display EXIF information in JPEG and THM (thumbnail) files. I use it to display EXIF info for images from digital cameras; it's not too useful for images from other sources.
To open files, drag and drop them to the application icon, or open them using the open panel in the app. The EXIF data will be displayed, followed a little later by a small version of the image.
The EXIF reading code in EXIF Viewer 2.x comes from Eric M. Johnston's exiftags package. Please see below for the exiftags copyright notice.
EXIF Viewer 2.x does requires Mac OS X version 10.2 or later — you can download version 1.3 of the application if you need to use it on Mac OS X version 10.1.
EXIF Viewer 2.7.1 has a small interim workaround for a SnowLeopard issue, and is recommended for SnowLeopard users only. Leopard and earlier users should continue using 2.7.
The application comes with no guarantees, use at your own risk!
If and when the app is upgraded, newer versions might be available at:
http://homepage.mac.com/aozer/EV/index.html
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History
1.0 (1/13/02) First release.
1.1 (1/14/02) Deal with Nikon D1X images.
1.2 (1/22/02) Report actual compression ratio (as JPEG quality tag isn't necessarily correct).
1.3 (1/2/03) Fix problem with Canon flash reporting.
2.0 (9/23/03) Switch from jhead to exiftags for extracting EXIF info. More accurate 35mm equivalent focal length. Text finding functionality (Mac OS X 10.3 and higher only). THM file support. Higher quality images.
2.1 (9/25/03) Rich text output, allowing clearer distinction between tag names and values.
2.2 (3/14/04) Allow open panel to accept upper case extensions ("JPG", "JPEG", "THM"). This was only a problem on 10.2.x and earlier systems.
2.3 (9/28/04) Switch to exiftags version 0.99.1, including support for additional cameras.
2.4 (10/3/05) Switch to exiftags version 1.00, including support for more cameras (and Nikon ISO settings in D70, etc).
2.5 (1/12/06) Universal (PowerPC and Intel) release; no other changes.
2.6 (5/27/07) Better handling of ISO in Canon files.
2.7 (8/28/08) Switch to exiftags version 1.01, including a number of bug fixes and support for Canon 5D custom functions.
2.7.1 (10/3/09) Provides a workaround for a Mac OS X 10.6 issue where images cannot be dragged from Safari to the EXIF Viewer app icon in the dock. Note that this is an interim fix and will not work for all image drags. This interim version has no additional changes and is recommended for SnowLeopard users only.
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Copyright notice for exiftags - Exchangeable image file format (Exif) parser
Copyright (c) 2001-2007, Eric M. Johnston <emj@postal.net>
All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
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limited Exif data from 'Get info'
