I'm new to this forum -- apologies if this has already been covered (I did do a search first).
I'm guessing this is more of a "feature request" than a "bug report".
I'm working with NEF images in Capture NX2 (v 2.2.6) on a MacBook Pro running OS X 10.6.7
I'm quite sure (from transferring image files among different user accounts on the same computer, and from moving image files between computers) that Capture NX2 embeds ALL metadata related to multiple saved versions of an image. By ALL, I mean the version names, the saved adjustments, and the complete (and therefore reversible) edit sequence history of each version.
When I use exiftool to view the metadata, however, I can see the adjustment information for only one of the versions. And even for the version that I can see, the version name is not present in the exiftool output.
My command line looks like this: phil% exiftool -s1 [filename] -w .nef.txt
PhilService
Send me a sample and I'll see what I can do. (philharvey66 at gmail.com)
- Phil
I don't need a sample because I have installed a trial version of NX2 and generated one myself. I can see this information in the NikonCaptureHistory which is currently extracted as a binary data block (not too useful I admit).
It will be a challenge to extract this information in a form that is useful, but I will look into it.
- Phil
I've just released version 8.56 which will decode this information when the -ee (ExtractEmbedded) option is used. For example:
exiftool -a -ee -g3:1 FILE
Doing it this way allows the information for different edit versions to be distinguished by the document number (family 3 group name).
- Phil
Thank you very much; really appreciate your work. I see this also works for Lightroom DNG files with multiple embedded snapshots.
-Phil