lack of exif info, wheres it gone?

[steveathome]

I wondered if anyone could throw any light on a recent problem I am experiencing.

I have been using this PC for about 3 years now (possibly) its an Athlon XP2400+ and running XP home. I have also been using Photoshop CS2, for the past 18 months or so,

Until the last two photoshoots all exif information appeared in my converted jPegs. I can still see all the info in a jPeg straight from the camera, but not when converted from a Raw file, so this sort of eliminates a pc problem.

The only info I get is camera type, width, height, Vert and Hor resolution, bit depth, frame count. I do not get shutter speed, Aperture setting, iso or anything else.

I do not believe I have changed anything in photoshop to have affected this, and I cannot see any way of changing this problem from the preferences menu.

I would be very grateful for a solution to my problem.

Many thanks in advance.

[BarryM]

the way i do mine is to right click on image (jpeg) goto properties, then summary tab then advanced and all my gumph is in there.

[steveathome]

the way i do mine is to right click on image (jpeg) goto properties, then summary tab then advanced and all my gumph is in there.

Thanks for the reply

Yes I already do that, but what I'm trying to say is that the information that used to be there is now only half there. I haven't changed the way I convert jPegs at all so wondered what was going on.

This happens with both the 30D and 5D after a Raw conversion.

[BarryM]

ahh sorry with u now usually i only get that issue if i have copied the whole image onto a new document as such and then saved it.

[lostmysnorkel]

A couple of question first:

Are you seeing the EXIF data in the camera, but losing it when you download to your hard drive?
Or, is the EXIF data readable on your PC with the RAW file, but getting lost in the jpeg conversion?

If you are using Photoshop's 'Resize for Web' function, then this does usually extract the EXIF data to save on file size. Depending on your conversion process, this may be happening some other way.

I generally always use Bridge for RAW converions, you can check the EXIF data by clicking FIle>File Info.

If you could, post us a run-down of your workflow, from camera to jpeg, and for each point, check whether your EXIF data is still there.

[steveathome]

Many thanks for the reply

I generally open in bridge, then open in raw, then open in the ordinary CS2 window

at most I may adjust any one or several of the following:

Layers Section
Curves
levels
selective colour
Colour balance
Brightness contrast
Hue Satuaration

Image Adjustments section
Adjustment - exposure
Adjustment - Shadow/highlight

Normally sharpen two channels rather than 3

I then change from 16 bit to 8 bit and then flatten the image
Save as - jPeg - ICC profile ticked - then at max resolution with baseline optimised.

I cant see this is any different to what I have done in the past, I never had a problem with exif until the last few weeks.

Many thanks again