Subject distance
Posted: 17 May 2015, 17:11
I am using a Nikon D800E, and before that Nikon 5100. I think it is dumb that when you focus on a subject, the camera will not display the distance between the camera and your focus point. Then you could use a DOF calculator to find your DOF without having to stop the camera down manually, which makes the image very hard to see anyway. I don't know if Canon cameras have this same problem.
I know that the camera has this info because it stores it in Exif as tag 9206. Unfortunately, the only Exif reader I have ever found that reports this data is ExifPro, which is a Windows application. I have searched for a similar app for Android but if there is one, I have not found it!
It would be great if you could retrieve this info live and display it. If not, maybe you could set up the image reader code to display this info from a captured jpeg?
I know that the camera has this info because it stores it in Exif as tag 9206. Unfortunately, the only Exif reader I have ever found that reports this data is ExifPro, which is a Windows application. I have searched for a similar app for Android but if there is one, I have not found it!
It would be great if you could retrieve this info live and display it. If not, maybe you could set up the image reader code to display this info from a captured jpeg?