How Do I Copy & Paste Exif Data ?

[Jim Dahl]

Anyone know a quick and effective way of copying the full exif details from a photo's "properties" so that it can be pasted easily?

Surely in this computer age I don't always have to resort to writing it down on a piece of paper and then typing it in manually do I?

[Daniel Cadieux]

Surely in this computer age I don't always have to resort to writing it down on a piece of paper and then typing it in manually do I?

That's what I do!

If there is a method I've been blind to I'll also be interested to find out about it:cool:

[Don Hamilton Jr.]

Me three!
Don

[William Malacarne]

If you are using Firefox browser there is an add on for exif. As long as the photo is posted without it being stripped you can right click and bring up a little pot-up window showing the exif. Click on copy and it puts it onto your clipboard for pasting wherever you want it.

It will look like this and of course you can delete the unwanted parts....

Camera Maker: Canon
Camera Model: Canon EOS-1D Mark II N
Lens: EF400mm f/5.6L USM
Image Date: 2009-07-15 073:05 -0700
Focal Length: 400.0mm
Aperture: f/5.6
Exposure Time: 0.0004 s (1/2500)
ISO equiv: 800
Exposure Bias: +0.67
Metering Mode: Partial
Exposure: aperture priority (semi-auto)
White Balance: Auto
Flash Fired: No (Manual)
Color Space: sRGB


Bill

[Craig Markham]

You can also use Canon's DPP program:
1. Right click on the image for which you want the data
2. Click on "Info" in that drop-down menu -- This will display the EXIF information
3. Click and drag across the EXIF list to select the info you want to copy.
4. Press Ctrl-C to Copy
5. Paste (Ctrl-V) into Notepad or whatever other text editor you use.

[Myer Bornstein]

If you use Breezebrowser the data is right there to copy easily.

[Roger Clark]

I use dcraw for raw files and jhead for jpegs. You need to run them in a command window and then copy and paste the results. These are free programs, including source code.

Roger

[Jonathan Ashton]

You can also use Canon's DPP program:
1. Right click on the image for which you want the data
2. Click on "Info" in that drop-down menu -- This will display the EXIF information
3. Click and drag across the EXIF list to select the info you want to copy.
4. Press Ctrl-C to Copy
5. Paste (Ctrl-V) into Notepad or whatever other text editor you use.

I do very similar, I left hand click and use the CTRL to mark each item required, I then copy Ctrl-C and paste Ctrl_V directly into BPN.

[John Chardine]

I try to keep image processing as simple as possible and so typing the EXIF data by hand would not work. I catalogue my images with Expression Media (XM) and an option-click from there sends the image to ACR/Ps. I can go back to XM and copy the EXIF data to the clipboard and then paste anywhere I like, most frequently a BPN post or to photographer friends in an email.

A solution that would involve opening up another program and navigating to the image to get the EXIF would be frankly a PITA. In a recent test of Lightroom I found I could not get at the EXIF data other than to read it so I said bye bye to that program.

[Roger Clark]

John,

I find cutting and pasting a PITA. I wrote a shell script to call dcraw and I use a command window to go to a directory full of raw files and just do:

make.image.info *.CR2 > image.exif.txt

and thousands of images can be cataloged all at once.

If anyone on a mac or linux machine would like the script, I can post it. (You'll need to also get DCRAW).

Roger

[David Gancarz]

I use ExifTool by Phil Harvey. It is another open source option. In Windows, you just drag and drop the file onto a desktop icon and a txt file of all exif data is autogenerated. It's written in perl so should run on just about any platform (MacOS, Linux, Unix flavors, and Windows).