extended EXIF data for colums

[Utz]

Hello,

I just 'discovered' (part of) Multi Commander and came across a missing (for ME) feature...

Quite often I need to sort images by their ORIGINAL DATE TAKEN (which would be the EXIF equivalent of "DTDigitized") - is their any (easy) way to include that in the "File Properties Module"??

...see attached capture

Kind regards and thanks for a GR8T program !!

PS: sometimes EXIF "Dimensions" are not shown in column (even after 'updating) - even though the data is present in the jpg info

Utz

[Mathias (Author)]

Orginal date and DTDigitized are not same

original datetime is the 0x9003 field. and that is include and shown if you enabled the "Picture (EXIF) - Date" column

0x9003 was chosen since some cameras do not fill the 0x9004 field.

But they are almost the same
0x9003 - For a digital still camera, this is the date and time the picture was taken or recorded.
0x9004 - The date and time when the image was stored as digital data. (usually the same as 0x9003)

PS: sometimes EXIF "Dimensions" are not shown in column (even after 'updating) - even though the data is present in the jpg info

To get the EXIF Dimensions is uses the EXIF field 0xA002 and 0xA003, Are you sure that that image has them.. ?
There is also a column called "Picture (IMG) - Dimensions" this will get the dimensions from the JPG file it self. not from EXIF data.

[Utz]

Hi Mathias,

I checked again the fields and can't see any problem with the image/EXIF data - I have attached some screen captures (I didn't bother to attach the image since it's 5mb..).

Again THANKS! for your help and regards from Le Mans !

Utz

[Mathias (Author)]

You got over 50.000 images there..  all the extended columns are fetched in the background. and with 50.000+ files it can takes sometime. They show up when they have been fetched.  If you scroll around you might find some items already got fetched, and you will see them pop in..

[Utz]

Oh my....didn't think about THAT ONE 

No offence meant to your program ....

Thanks Mathias !

[Utz]

Mathias,

is there any 'record limit' for the program ?  After waiting for one hour, the dimension fields are still not filled...Any ideas?

Thanks and regards from Le Mans !

Utz

[Mathias (Author)]

No.. very strange.. I'm not able to reproduce it. I get the exif data from all images I got here.
Might be that the images are special and that I can not extract the exif data?

If you select some images and select menu > tools > Picture Tools > Export EXIF metadata
That will create a file next to the image with the meta data as "<imgfilename>-EXIF-data.txt" file..  Do they contain anything ?

[Utz]

...you are working late  I will try that tomorrow when at work...I don't have the image here.

I'll keep you posted !

God natt...
Utz

[Utz]

Ok...I checked again the info by exporting to txt - it's all there ; this morning MOST of the fields are filled with data (seems to be a matter of scrolling the window to keep MC from "falling asleep" ). However some fields just stay empty  . Well it's not really crucial and it seems to work on smaller directories - is this info stored somewhere (cache?) or is it renewed every time I change to that directory?

One more question: Is the "File Info" tooltip customisable or hardcoded?

Thanks again

Utz

[Mathias (Author)]

The scrolling have nothing to do with the fetching. only thing scrolling does is to force a redraw.
If fields are empty then it did not get any info from that item or it have not reached that item yet. Extra data is not fetch in the order they are view.

The info is cached so you can go out of the folder and then into it again.
But cache is lost if program exit or a forced refresh is done.

The content of the tooltip are currently not customizable, They can only be disabled and/or changed between fixed styles..