Exposure in Exif

[Diana]

After trying to google, I am still at wits end! The exposure on my exif is just a lot of mixed up numerals, everything else is there. It is on almost all my photos. Does anyone have any idea why and how I can fix it? I have already reset the camera, nothing has changed.

[Richard Brown]

How do you do your work flow. Mine is generally missing as I upload a high res image to Flickr but tend to post a lower res issue on here. The low res image is basically a copy so the exif data is removed.

[Diana]

@rjb71 Thanks Richard, I don't upload in high res that I am aware of. I just went through my pics, occasionally there is one with the complete exif. Otherwise the exposure is always just a certain amount of numerals, everything else is there ;-)

[Richard Brown]

@ludwigsdiana just checked a few of your images. The Exif is showing me the F stop ISO and the focal length but the shutter speed seems to be a random collection of numbers. I'm guessing the camera is a fault for that one but I don't know the solution. Sorry

[Diana]

@rjb71 Thanks Richard, I will try to get in touch with Panasonic which is a mission on it's own ;-)

[Kathy]

perhaps email Ross ( [e-mail]) See link Support / Feedback/ Contact at the bottom of the site pages

[J A Byrdlip]

Are you post-processing the images that have the messy shutter speeds?

[Diana]

@byrdlip I always post process all in the same way. A few are correct but the majority a jamble!

[Diana]

@randystreat thanks Kathy, will have too I suppose 😉

[J A Byrdlip]

@ludwigsdiana to play twenty questions: is the exposure time correct before post-process? Or better yet, are the times only messed with when you do a particular edit? (perhaps an bug/feature with the editing software)

[Diana]

@byrdlip I always do the same, upload into LR and then process in Topaz Studio. Some are normal and most are not. I will look and see what the exif in LR says, thanks.

[Diana]

@rjb71 @randystreat @byrdlip I have just figured out why my shutter speed is all wonky! If I use Topaz Denoise or Sharpen, it changes it to all those numerals! Would that be normal or should I check with Topaz Labs?

[Richard Brown]

@ludwigsdiana interesting I have that software and mine seem OK when I've used it. Have you go the latest updates?

[Diana]

@rjb71 Yes, it was updated a few days ago. I just wrote to Topaz, see what they come up with. Thanks Richard :-)

[Kathy]

@ludwigsdiana Can't help you with that. Sorry.

[Diana]

@rjb71 @byrdlip @randystreat I received response from Topaz, they have this issue quite often, but they are working on it. I need to send them the original pic and the one with the wrong exif. Let's hope they figure something out ;-)

[J A Byrdlip]

@ludwigsdiana thanks, I was reading online about calculated shutter and some other shutter related variable which had a large negative number like you were getting and had thought software was involved. Glad to hear the software company know of the problem.