You just drag and drop a picture on one of the droplets and the file’s entire EXIF metadata appears in either a dialog window or a new text document. Fortunately, once you’ve installed EXIFTools (it’s a standard Mac installation package) you can use a set of droplets created by Rob Lewis which bypasses the Terminal entirely. In fact in Mac OSX it’s a command line application, which means you access it through the Terminal. It’s a powerful but very barebones application. But I’ve found a solution: Phil Harvey’s ExifTool.Īs its name implies, ExifTool centers on one thing: EXIF data. I hate when that happens.Īnyway, long story short: this info is contained in a subset called MakerData and apparently not all apps bother to access it. Which meant the EXIF data DID contain the info I was looking for - and Aperture was simply not reading it. However, while performing these tests I noticed the massive EXIF section at the bottom of the app window… And lo and behold: there was a film simulation entry. Still hoping for Apple to come through on that one eventually. The results are impressive but unfortunately in the end, it doesn’t really fit my workflow. I have to commend Andrey Tverdokhleb for creating such a powerful application and sharing it with the community.
The latest version of the free (donations accepted) Raw Photo Processor supports X-Pro1 raf files and I downloaded it to do some quick tests.
In fact, my studio preset is based on Pro-Neg Std (with raw as a backup).īeing able to check on this from Aperture had never been a mission critical problem so I hadn’t spent much time trying to find a solution.
And while it was frustrating on the X100, it’s become more of an issue with the X-Pro1 since I tend to play with these a lot more, especially the two Pro-Neg simulations which I’ve become quite fond of. Why? Because the EXIF data in Aperture doesn’t include Fuji’s proprietary film simulation info (available in JPEG mode).
I’d always been rather satisfied with Aperture 3’s metadata views until I started shooting the X100.
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