I have taken a number of photos in various modes with HX-9V. No matter what settings I have the camera in or what scenes it recognizes, as far as I can tell the metadata just indicates "Program AE Mode".
This was taken with the panoramic sweep feature (like to a page which uses exiftool to extract metadata from an image), http://regex.info/exif.cgi?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Ffarm3.staticflickr.com%2F2887%2F11657130606_339ed52571_o_d.jpg
The Sony Tags listed in http://www.exiftool.org/TagNames/Sony.html such as Scene mode (excerpt below) do not appear in the exiftool output. Is that an error on my part with ExifTool command line, or is this information simply not in the image (i.e. Sony neglected to put their own metadata in HX-9V firmware).
0xb023 SceneMode int32u
0 = Standard
1 = Portrait
2 = Text
3 = Night Scene
4 = Sunset
5 = Sports
6 = Landscape
7 = Night Portrait
8 = Macro
9 = Super Macro
16 = Auto
17 = Night View/Portrait 18 = Sweep Panorama
19 = Handheld Night Shot
20 = Anti Motion Blur
21 = Cont. Priority AE
22 = Auto+
23 = 3D Sweep Panorama
24 = Superior Auto
25 = High Sensitivity
26 = Fireworks
27 = Food
28 = Pet
65535 = n/a
The image you linked has been edited by Photoshop. Photoshop will delete all maker-note tags, which is where the Sony information is stored. From an original HX-9V panorama, you should see something like this:
> exiftool -exposuremode "-releasemode*" "-panorama*" -a -G1 SonyDSC-HX9V_pano.jpg
[Sony] Exposure Mode : Sweep Panorama
[ExifIFD] Exposure Mode : Auto
[Sony] Release Mode : Normal
[Sony] Release Mode 2 : Continuous - High Resolution Sweep Panorama
[Sony] Panorama Full Width : 10480
[Sony] Panorama Full Height : 4096
[Sony] Panorama Direction : Right or Down
[Sony] Panorama Crop Left : 0
[Sony] Panorama Crop Top : 0
[Sony] Panorama Crop Right : 10479
[Sony] Panorama Crop Bottom : 4095
[Sony] Panorama Frame Width : 4096
[Sony] Panorama Frame Height : 1536
[Sony] Panorama Source Width : 10514
[Sony] Panorama Source Height : 4012
- Phil