Metadata questions: Hi everyone, I'm new to the forum. Anyone out there know if it is possible to get flash power settings out of the saved metadata from a NEF, Nikon raw file? I'm...

mariahdphoto

Hi everyone,
I'm new to the forum.
Anyone out there know if it is possible to get flash power settings out of the saved metadata from a NEF, Nikon raw file? I'm just looking for if it was on TTL or manual and what the power setting was.
Any thoughts would be great.
Thanks.
Mariah D

MT Shooter Loc: Montana

mariahdphoto wrote:

Hi everyone,
I'm new to the forum.
Anyone out there know if it is possible to get flash power settings out of the saved metadata from a NEF, Nikon raw file? I'm just looking for if it was on TTL or manual and what the power setting was.
Any thoughts would be great.
Thanks.
Mariah D

P.I.E. from Picmeta does display the Nikon iTTL info if the flash was used for the image.

Bill Houghton Loc: New York area

I just looked at Picasa - clicked on the properties on the right side of the screen, it gives all the Data, including if a flash was used.

mariahdphoto

Thanks MT Shooter.
That is an awesome program. Absolutely everything that you want to know about your photo.
Great answer.
-MD

Rongnongno Loc: FL

mariahdphoto wrote:

Hi everyone,
I'm new to the forum.
Anyone out there know if it is possible to get flash power settings out of the saved metadata from a NEF, Nikon raw file? I'm just looking for if it was on TTL or manual and what the power setting was.
Any thoughts would be great.
Thanks.
Mariah D

Just about any decent imaging software does that.
You will find the information in both EXIF and IPC meta data as well as other that are proprietary and used by cataloging software.

Microsoft explorer can also be set to look at the EXIF data AND change it w/o having to open the file.

doduce Loc: Holly Springs NC

mariahdphoto wrote:

Hi everyone,
I'm new to the forum.
Anyone out there know if it is possible to get flash power settings out of the saved metadata from a NEF, Nikon raw file? I'm just looking for if it was on TTL or manual and what the power setting was.
Any thoughts would be great.
Thanks.
Mariah D

Welcome to the Hog.

BHC Loc: Strawberry Valley, JF, USA

Welcome to UHH, the Jabber Chamber (with apologies to Dennis Miller).

NegativeBLUR Loc: Dallas, Tx

Rongnongno, are you saying you can get the exact power setting your flash was on? I have only ever seen (the programs I use anyway) tell you if the flash fired or not, but no detailed info. I'd love to know of one that does if it exists! Thanks for any info...

jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ

mariahdphoto wrote:

Hi everyone,
I'm new to the forum.
Anyone out there know if it is possible to get flash power settings out of the saved metadata from a NEF, Nikon raw file? I'm just looking for if it was on TTL or manual and what the power setting was.
Any thoughts would be great.
Thanks.
Mariah D

No, there is no way of telling the flash power. The metadata will only tell if the flash fired or not. In fact, there's no way that I know of to tell what power the flash used when in TTL mode. The only way is for you to use your flash in M and make a not of the setting.

Merlin1300 Loc: New England, But Now & Forever SoTX

Simply one of the BEST metadata programs is
PhotoME
http://www.photome.de/
AND - - there is NO COST !!
Dunno how they do that :)
If you do not find any Flash data in your EXIF with this program
then it has NOT been recorded by your camera and it does NOT exist !!