Picture Control setting in EXIF

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Does anyone know if picture control settings (ok these are the Nikon terms) on RAW files that only show on the camera display and not on the final RAW file being processed out of camera are included on the EXIF.

So if I set the picture control on say 5/100 images to vivid, is there any way to see through the EXIF parameters which 5 were shot with that picture control to enable me to replicate the vivid in post processing?
 
Picture Control won't apply to RAW, it only applies to the way the camera converts the images to jpeg, or how Nikon processing/viewing software (e.g. Capture NX-D/View NX-i) displays them.
 
Picture control settings are stored in the metadata of NEF files and will be used for the default settings of Nikon's own software, including Capture NX-D and ViewNX-i. If you don't change anything else, then tiff or jpeg files exported by Nikon's raw converters will reflect the picture control recorded in the NEF, but you are free to change to a different standard picture control or create a custom control, etc. However, mainstream third party raw converters like ACR, Lightroom and Capture One completely ignore picture controls.

If you want to view the recorded picture control for a single file, you can use one of Nikon's packages. If you want to extract this information from multiple files, you can query the PictureControlName tag with ExifTool:

http://www.photosbytom.com/ftopicp-60.html
https://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/
https://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/TagNames/Nikon.html#PictureControl
 
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gramps said:
Picture Control won't apply to RAW, it only applies to the way the camera converts the images to jpeg, or how Nikon processing/viewing software (e.g. Capture NX-D/View NX-i) displays them.
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flyingmonkeycorp said:
I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure if you're shooting in Raw the picture controls won't have any effect. I could be wrong though.
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Your both wrong, see above. The settings are recorded in the Exif otherwise the embedded Jpeg file would be flatter than a pancake.
 
To be honest, if you want to view those 5 files, you'd be better off tagging the images rather than trying to trawl through the Exif data.
 
No idea. Follow Retune's advice and use Exiftool. It displays by far the most comprehensive EXIF detail of almost all readers/editors.
 
If you open the raw you want to change in Capture NX-D you can simply change the picture control to Vivid. You can then open the file as a TIFF in whatever editing program you want.
 
jamesev said:
What is the EXIf parameter please?
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The answer is in my reply. The 'PictureControlName' tag is a proprietary Nikon tag, not a standard Exif tag, so some software may not see it. Exiftool (and software based on Exiftool) will. The example in the first link should do what you want.

Of course none of this is necessary if you use Nikon's own raw converters, which apply the recorded picture control automatically. Are you trying to approximate the vivid picture control in a third party converter like Adobe's, where I guess the 'camera vivid' profile will give you something fairly similar?
 
Retune said:
Of course none of this is necessary if you use Nikon's own raw converters, which apply the recorded picture control automatically. Are you trying to approximate the vivid picture control in a third party converter like Adobe's, where I guess the 'camera vivid' profile will give you something fairly similar?
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yes pretty much
 
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