Temp metadata help

[JBrowe]

I see this has been asked before. When I use the Exif file viewer I am hoping to see if my cell phone captured the temperature in the metadata. I do not seem to see that information when I drop a picture into the executable exiftool.

Would anyone be able to tell me if there is such data present in any of these pictures or how I can see that data myself? I am trying to get a temperature of the house at the time I took these pictures. I tried to attach 4 pictures but it was too large, so I will attach two pictures.


Any help on this is greatly appreciated.

[Phil Harvey]

I don't know any cell phones that record ambient temperature in the pictures.  Some cameras do, but not many.

- Phil

[StarGeek]

Looking further, that appears to be from a Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G.  Looking at the manual for that phone gives no indication about about saving the temperature when taking a picture.

Any temperature posts you might have read here were probably about a FLIR thermal imaging camera.

[JBrowe]

I appreciate you both answering me. I was attempting to help someone out on verifying a temp when those pictures were taken.

Thanks again.

All the best.

[Phil Harvey]

@StarGeek:  Just FYI, My Sony RX100's record a fairly accurate ambient temperature, but for most cameras that record a temperature it seems to be that of the sensor (eg. many Canon cameras), which is typically well above room temperature, especially after you have taken a few pictures.

- Phil

[StarGeek]

Ah, interesting.   Good to know.

And I just remembered that some wildlife trail cameras also record temperature.

[Hubert]

Not sure if will help the OP but...

Mobile phones may not write the ambient temperature to their own photos but some do have temperature sensors, and other apps can access the data.

For example, I use Walkmeter on iOS (it's also available on Android) to record .gpx tracks of my rambles. I then geotag my camera photos with ExifTool when I get home.

Walkmeter logs the ambient temperature in the gps data (or at least the temperature detected in my pocket  ) , and when I geotag my photos, ExifTool writes the -ambienttemperature tags to my photos.