Exif question.

[Carl one]

I shoot everything in raw because I make so many errors that have to be corrected before doing anything else. Anyway, my question is this, Is it possible to show the exif info from the raw file side by side with the saved jpg same image file. This would be beneficial to me in learning just how much of and what kind of changes I make to the raw image before saving it. It would also be beneficial in learning to the compose the shot to get maximum benefit from in camera processing. Thank you. Carl

[TonyW]

Maybe there's a bit of a misunderstanding on what RAW is. The only "mistakes" you can "correct" are any in-camera settings that are used during in-camera JPEG processing. Things like saturation, sharpness, white balance. The basic things like exposure (ISO, aperture, shutter speed) and lens settings are whatever you shot with whether its saved as a JPEG or a RAW file. In fact with my camera (the Nikon D80) the EXIF data is identical I think - the RAW file EXIF data contains all the in-camera settings even if they haven't been used to process a JPEG in-camera.

RAW doesn't let you fix mistakes - it just gives you a bit more latititude to try and correct them.

Tony

[dj_paige]

In the PSE5 organizer, right-click on a photo and then choose Show Properties, click on the Metadata icon (the one that looks like a lower case letter I in a circle) and you can see the EXIF and the photo simultaneously.

You can do this with either the RAW of .jpg version of the file.

As far as composing the shot to get maximum benefit from in-camera processing, Are you using Program, Aperture or Shutter mode? In most cameras, these result in reasonably good — but not perfect — choices of camera settings most of the time. Yes, your camera light meter can get fooled, and so it helps to recognize the types of settings where your camera doesn't give you the type of settings you might want. This typically happens when part of the image is very bright and part is very dark.

If you were referring to the in-camera image processing that some cameras do (like in-camera sharpening or in-camera D-Lighting), I would say that in my experience, you can do a better job in PSE than the camera can do, so I don't do any in-camera image processing.