Metadata reader for SLR cameras?

Question

I'm learning to use Lightroom and the tutorial is talking about the Metadata read by DSLR cameras. Are there any adaptors for SLR cameras in which the metadata of your photos can be stored to a memory card? Do any companies make anything like that?

Answer 1

Well I guess I don't understand what you'd need it for. Metadata is nothing more than data about data. In other words information about information. Since that's the case if you had data about your data I suppose you could store it on a usb flash drive. I'm not much of an expert on data about data but it doesn't seem to make much sense to me.



Also, Metadata could also be defined, I suppose, as exif data.

Answer 2

If the metadata you are referring to is the EXIF info integrated into the JPG file then any advanced graphics manipulation program can read it. The simplest app I use that has this option is the freeware Irfanview.

Answer 3

JPEG images have various description headers (meta data) tacked to the image file. EXIF is one such header, however, there are many types of headers, common ones including EXIF, GPS, IPTC, MakerNotes, ICC profile. Most image viewers and image editors will display some of the meta information. If you want to see most, if not all, meta info, use ExifTool.

http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/