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Why no Aperture and Lens Model


vintola

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I am wondering, why in the EXIF there is not mentioned lens model and aperture?

Camera is M9, lens Summarit-M 2,5/35 mm, FW 1.116 and the software is Aperture 2.1.4.

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Edit: All other information in the EXIF is ok.

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OK. Thanks JTrunck. I thought that there was something wrong. Hope that at least the aperture is coming in the future versions of Aperture, because sometimes it is necessary information.

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The lens type is in the EXIF data and described by standards. I have no idea why Aperture doesn't show it.

 

The (estimated) aperture is in a part of the metadata called "Maker Notes," which Leica may describe to Adobe LR, but everyone else has to figure out the secret on their own. Fortunately, Carl Bretteville and Sandy McGuffog also figured it out, and Sandy's source code for Cornerfix is published on SourceForge, where Phase One et al can read it. Apple may have a policy against looking at other people's code, even when it is open source and under a Creative Commons license.

 

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The EXIF standard doesn’t define a field for the lens type, just for the focal length and the maximum aperture value. The lens description, if present, is part of the proprietary MakerNotes.

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The EXIF standard doesn’t define a field for the lens type, just for the focal length and the maximum aperture value. The lens description, if present, is part of the proprietary MakerNotes.

 

Did you find an answer to how Leica manages to encode a negative logarithm (for maximum aperture 0.95 (less than 1.0 means less than 0 on a scale such as EV)? I recall from Carl's memo on Leica's EXIF and MakerNotes practices for the M8 that the JPEGs used unsigned rationals and the DNGs used signed rationals for this quantity, so looking at JPEGs may not give the whole story.

 

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Did you find an answer to how Leica manages to encode a negative logarithm (for maximum aperture 0.95 (less than 1.0 means less than 0 on a scale such as EV)?

So far I haven’t got an image file to check this, neither JPEG nor DNG. Anybody got a file to spare?

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