tashley
Subscriber Member
So I've been poking about in EXIF for files from the Hassy.
If you shoot RAW or JPEG there is no value shown for Exposure Compensation anywhere in EXIF, which is daft and irritating when one is trying to fine-tune ETTR use - unless you make a physical note, you have no idea how often using, for example, +1/3rd stop compensation leads to files with blown skies etc. Hassy should fix this.
Again shooting RAW, there is no Subject Distance shown in either Phocus or LR but if you export TIFF from Phocus and then look at the files in Preview on a Mac and use the Tools palette to look at EXIF, a subject distance is shown. That subject distance is, I can confirm after using a Disto (and a tape measure!) always wrong. By a lot. And even though greater distances do show a larger number in this field they are still totally incorrect and should be ignored.
Shooting JPEG does't seem to record a subject distance at all, or not that I can find.
Lastly, and this was really new to me, if you shoot RAW+JPEG (there is no option to shoot JPEG only) then the JPEG files are about half the pixel dimensions of the RAW file @4128 pixels on the long side versus 8272 for the RAW (I think the 'slightly less than half' factor is due to lens corrections). This fact seems undocumented and in fact the user manual says "The JPEG les are HNC pro led so you can print straight from a folder for amazing quality" - which kind of implies that they are full size.
Has anyone else noticed this? I can't find any reference to it, nor any menu setting to let me change it. Frankly it doesn't matter to me since I don't do JPEG but it would be good, if in the field and running out of memory card space, in extremis, to be able to record full size JPEG with no RAW file. Or, if in the middle of nowhere and with access to a print shop but no computer, to be able to print from full sized JPEG.
In any event, this all betokens the irritation with the system: a great camera with incredible glass but with oddly counterintuitive behaviours which are non-standard and not documented.
If you shoot RAW or JPEG there is no value shown for Exposure Compensation anywhere in EXIF, which is daft and irritating when one is trying to fine-tune ETTR use - unless you make a physical note, you have no idea how often using, for example, +1/3rd stop compensation leads to files with blown skies etc. Hassy should fix this.
Again shooting RAW, there is no Subject Distance shown in either Phocus or LR but if you export TIFF from Phocus and then look at the files in Preview on a Mac and use the Tools palette to look at EXIF, a subject distance is shown. That subject distance is, I can confirm after using a Disto (and a tape measure!) always wrong. By a lot. And even though greater distances do show a larger number in this field they are still totally incorrect and should be ignored.
Shooting JPEG does't seem to record a subject distance at all, or not that I can find.
Lastly, and this was really new to me, if you shoot RAW+JPEG (there is no option to shoot JPEG only) then the JPEG files are about half the pixel dimensions of the RAW file @4128 pixels on the long side versus 8272 for the RAW (I think the 'slightly less than half' factor is due to lens corrections). This fact seems undocumented and in fact the user manual says "The JPEG les are HNC pro led so you can print straight from a folder for amazing quality" - which kind of implies that they are full size.
Has anyone else noticed this? I can't find any reference to it, nor any menu setting to let me change it. Frankly it doesn't matter to me since I don't do JPEG but it would be good, if in the field and running out of memory card space, in extremis, to be able to record full size JPEG with no RAW file. Or, if in the middle of nowhere and with access to a print shop but no computer, to be able to print from full sized JPEG.
In any event, this all betokens the irritation with the system: a great camera with incredible glass but with oddly counterintuitive behaviours which are non-standard and not documented.