I most usually use my camera (Canon 50d) in centre spot focus. However when I view the EXIF data in PSP, it shows that I am using "Focus Type Evaluative".

This is as distinct from metering mode Evaluative.

No other exif viewer that I have found even mentions Focus Type, so I am puzzled as to what the reading actually means, and whether it's a peculiarity of PSP or the camera.

Anyone got any info? I would be most interested.

BTW. Is there a way to easily extract the PSP exif listing as text and be able to display it fior others to see?

Thanks

Nick

Don't have any info, but my (Nikon D300) Exif data shows a "subject distance range" (but none of my lenses provides that information, or it doesn't get recorded, or PSP can't show it).  BTW, is the data you're discussing found by using the Organizer, or using the "Exif" tab in the Image Information dialog?  they're slightly different (and different again is what Windows Explorer shows in Properties).

I can't copy the Exif data from any source in PSP (I just tried); I was about to suggest that you use DPP (Canon's free converter) since it very probably has the equivalent of Nikon's ViewNX's "copy image information and ... data," but I doubt if you want all that I stuck on the end of this (the green text).   Apparently the different Exif Editors (quite a few are freeware and reputedly very good) will do the job for you, and the consensus is to ask about which one is best  at a forum for users of your camera, since the different Exif editors show / don't show different info.

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Nick, I'm confused, and don't understand why something that seems so trivial could matter so much. My advice is to look critically at your photos as photographs and never look at any EXIF metadata ever again.

Quoted from Tim

Nick, I'm confused, and don't understand why something that seems so trivial could matter so much. My advice is to look critically at your photos as photographs and never look at any EXIF metadata ever again.

Sorry, but I have to say that everyone has their opinions. If the camera settings are so trivial to you then fine, and it does not "matter so much" I was just curious, since the EXIF is reporting something that does not gel with my camera settings. If I look at one of my shots and it has certain characteristics, knowing how I achieved them ages later can be very useful. Before the days of EXIF, it was advised that if you were trying something new, you should write down all your settings. Having the camera do it for you is marvellous.

D_Spider. Thanks for the reply. Sometimes I do want all the info, sometimes not. However, although I do use an exif viewer, both under Windows and in FireFox, none of them showed the number of parameters that PSP seems to. However, it may as was suggested on the Canon forum and by you, be incorrectly interpreting it.