Exif data format for K10D

Dear All,

Does anyone have a listing of the data items and their associated variable types (i.e. ASCII, long, integer, etc) embedded in the jpg files produced by the K10D.

I want to analyse how my photos break down by focal length (& other parameters) which I thought I could do by writing a little programme to read the exif data, but need to know the data structure.

Thanks in advance for any help,

The best thing is to download PhotoME
http://www.photome.de/download_en.html

It displays _everything_ inside the EXIF (including camera temperature and serial number!!). AFAIK the data files it uses are XML format - so you can unpick it.

You'll have fun reading EXIF tags - there are such a huge number!
There are also plenty of freeware tools and libraries for EXIF reading anyway - so do a Google before you start coding

Hope that helps!
Matt

Thanks Matt,

I have down-loaded PhotoME and seen some of the data available.

I am trying to look at all of my photos of one particular type of subject, to see if the focal lengths I have used are covered by a possible new lens purchase.

The number of photos is too large to contemplate opening each in PhotoME, so I am thinking of going the programming route to automate/speed-up the analysis (and I like a computing challenge now and again).

Regards,

Peter

No problem Peter.
It's almost certainly all done for you. Check out these links:
http://www.suodenjoki.dk/us/archive/2008/extract-exif.htm (with Javascript)
http://www.br-software.com/extracter.html (extracts info to CSV file)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/libexif (developer library)
http://www.instituteofthefuture.org/exifomatic/ (Java one)
http://www.kuren.org/exif/ (C++ source code)

That should get you started
Others are listed here.

Have fun!
Matt

PS. Or in true Pentax LBA style... just buy the lens!

PS CS4 can filter by any/all the EXIF data, by default it shows Focal length (thats the actual focal length selected if using a zoom), Aperture, White balance, Exposure time, Colour profile and the Raw converter settings (if named and saved). Any EXIF parameter can be added/removed to/from the list.

I wouldn't be surprised if CS3 and even CS2 can do this too, I have never checked, you could write a script to do it any version of Bridge (I believe) - well a better man than I probably could, but its default in the CS4 version of Bridge.

Chris