Black/white level not founds in the EXIF

[13shane13]

Hi there,

I'm having some weird tint flickering between RAW pictures in a timelapse sequence. I have read online that it would be an issue with the Black levels but I am unable to find any black or white levels in the EXIF when loading the .NEF files. Shooting with a Nikon D5200 & D5300.

Does anyone know how to get access to those numbers or why I don't have them within the EXIF.

»»https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwsUKYdChvs is an example of what I'm looking for.

Thanks for all the help I can get. It's a disappointing thing to see after the sequence is made and realizing iI have this issue with no way of fixing atm.

[Phil Harvey]

I don't have time to find my D5200/D5300 samples now, but try this command to see what shows up:

exiftool -a -G1 -s "-*level*" "-*black*" FILE

With some luck you may find something there that is changing between the files.  And with a bit more luck, you will be able to write this tag with ExifTool so all the files have the same value.  Then with even more luck this could solve the flickering problem.

- Phil

Edit:  Sorry, you asked this in the GUI section, but I responded with a command-line solution.

[RalphDaub]

I'm experiencing the same issue as OP, and I've seen a few other folks in different forums experiencing the same issue.

I used the exiftool command suggested by Phil and I see that there is a Black Point discrepancy between the files that have the "correct", and the outliers that have a slight shift in hue (despite White Balance and all other settings being the same).

Correct photo:
[Olympus]       WB_RBLevels                     : 464 508 256 256
[Olympus]       BlackLevel2                     : 256 258 258 256
[Olympus]       BlackLevel2                     : 256 258 258 256

Outlier:
[Olympus]       WB_RBLevels                     : 464 512 256 256
[Olympus]       BlackLevel2                     : 257 258 258 257
[Olympus]       BlackLevel2                     : 257 258 258 257

Now I'm trying to see if there's a way to change the black point values of the photos that have an "off" black point.

I realize this thread is a couple of years old, but wanted to share in case anyone else experiences this in the future. 😁

[Phil Harvey]

Did you try a command like this to see if ExifTool can write these tags?:

exiftool -WB_RBLevels="464 508 256 256" -BlackLevel2="256 258 258 256" FILE

- Phil