[1037 on Win7] 2 possible bugs

[rahulvarma]

I've noticed a couple of possible bugs-- perhaps I am not using Daminion correctly.

 

1. I cannot get Daminion to read the photograph's ISO-- it can read and display the shutter speed and aperture correctly. When I check the detailed metadata the ISO is available, but I just cannot get it to show on the thumbnail or full screen of an image.

 

2. When i make a change to properties in the Properties pane (rating or color label) it doesn't update the file, even if I re-sync. When I make these changes in the image thumbnail it works OK and, in fact, updates the info in the Properties pane. When I change the rating in the Properties pane a small asterisk appears next to the word Rating, but not when I make the change in the Thumbnail.

 

 

Thanks

[Uwe]

Hi Arvi,

 

I assume, you forgot to "Save" your adjustments you made in the Properties Panel. You have to press the "Save" button in the bottom of the Properties Panel to "activate" your changes.

 

Regards, Uwe

[Murat]

1. I cannot get Daminion to read the photograph's ISO-- it can read and display the shutter speed and aperture correctly. When I check the detailed metadata the ISO is available, but I just cannot get it to show on the thumbnail or full screen of an image.

 

Can you please send us your image file for detailed analyzing? Perhaps the ISO info was hidden somewhere in the Maker Notes...

[rahulvarma]

Hi Arvi,

 

I assume, you forgot to "Save" your adjustments you made in the Properties Panel. You have to press the "Save" button in the bottom of the Properties Panel to "activate" your changes.

 

Regards, Uwe

 

Thanks UWE-- this works!!

[rahulvarma]

Can you please send us your image file for detailed analyzing? Perhaps the ISO info was hidden somewhere in the Maker Notes...

 

 

Murat, I am sending you an email with images

 

Thanks for your help

[rahulvarma]

After playing around with my image files and ExifTool I realize that perhaps this is what is going on:

some versions of Nikon software (not all, though, it would appear) are writing ISO info to MakerNotes and not to EXIF. Some other subsequent programs have stripped this info from MakerNotes and written them to EXIF-- in these cases Daminion is able to see and report ISO; in cases where the particular Nikon s/w did not write the ISO to EXIF, and the image was not processed by any tool that wrote to EXIF, Daminion does not see ISO, even if info is available in MakerNotes.

 

In one test image I was able to use ExifTools to replace Exif:ISO with Nikon:ISO (i.e. ISO from MakerNotes) and then Daminion was able to see the ISO data. However, I had to drop image from Daminion catalog and add it back again for it to work; re-scanning and re-linking did not work.

 

Possible solutions:

1. use Exiftools to replace ISO with ISO from MakerNotes and re-create catalog in Daminion;

2. Daminion adds a feature to do above (read ISO and perhaps other data from MakerNotes, and then maybe even add to EXIF)

 

Thoughts?

 

Thanks

[Murat]

1041 build should exract the ISO value for your image, however Daminion still can't import ISO from some Nikon images.

[rahulvarma]

1041 build should exract the ISO value for your image, however Daminion still can't import ISO from some Nikon images.

[rahulvarma]

Murat:

Again, thanks for the prompt response. I will try 1041 as soon as I can.

 

As an aside, isn't it frustrating how camera makers (and their software) keep getting in their own way

 

Thanks for a great product and support

[Murat]

As an aside, isn't it frustrating how camera makers (and their software) keep getting in their own way

 

Exactly. Nikon even decided to encrypt their maker notes.