Best Exif metadata reader for Leica?

[Denebola]

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Hello,

There are many, many programs which can read the Exif data of a picture, but usually none of them is able to show all the customer specific fields.

The question is: what is, in your opinion, the best currently available Exif metadata reader? It should be able to get info like the Leica Look "emulation" just introduced (just to give an example).

Hoping that it does exists...

Den

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[Anbaric]

ExifTool generally has the most extensive metadata support, and a lot of other programs borrow from it. The basic program is a command line tool, but there are various GUIs and web interfaces:

https://exiftool.org/

Data related to new proprietary camera company specific features may take a while to support, and of course it can only find things that are actually in the image metadata (typically things that are set in-camera and written to a raw file or jpeg) and not stuff that only gets written to a sidecar file or database or a proprietary image editor file format in post-processing.

[Denebola]

9 minutes ago, Anbaric said:

ExifTool generally has the most extensive metadata support, and a lot of other programs borrow from it. The basic program is a command line tool, but there are various GUIs and web interfaces:

https://exiftool.org/

Data related to new proprietary camera company specific features may take a while to support, and of course it can only find things that are actually in the image metadata (typically things that are set in-camera and written to a raw file or jpeg) and not stuff that only gets written to a sidecar file or database or a proprietary image editor file format in post-processing.

Yes, thanks,  I already use Exiftool (with Exiftoolgui), it's fantastic, but it's still missing some custom specific fields.  I was asking myself if there were an even better tool for this purpose.

Den                                                                                                                                                                     

[Anbaric]

17 minutes ago, Denebola said:

Yes, thanks,  I already use Exiftool (with Exiftoolgui), it's fantastic, but it's still missing some custom specific fields.  I was asking myself if there were an even better tool for this purpose.                                                                                                                                     

Which fields, and from which camera? Are they in-camera settings?

[frame-it]

1 hour ago, Denebola said:

but it's still missing some custom specific fields.

There is a full list of fields, so add whatever you need to the command line and see the result.

[some fields are populated only by certain manufacturers]

 

 

 

 

EXIF.pdf

[Denebola]

Digging in Exiftool I was able to find the info I was searching for. Specifically, I was looking for Film Style (including the new ones introduced by Leica Fotos).

It is necessary to look inside the Unknown data, here is the command to use:

exiftool -U filename.dng

(it works too with jpg files, of course)

Looking in the quite long output list, the Film Style can be found as the value "Unknown 0x0412"

Hope this helps...

Den

[SrMi]

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For DNG files, "dng_validate -v" gives lots of information stored in the file.

[Denebola]

On 8/14/2023 at 11:04 PM, SrMi said:

For DNG files, "dng_validate -v" gives lots of information stored in the file.

That's a very good idea. Thanks!
Den