Where to find explanation of all icons on Camer Dashboard

[reader]

Searching the help file on Dashboard, gets two hits, I read thru them both but did not find anything explaining the icons on Camera Dashboard... most are quite easy to figure out... but some are not, especially if not populated.  (See included image)

The one at middle, far left, and the next one are not apparent.   one is probably focus settings but not sure



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[jch2103]

I suspect it's reading Maker Notes.

The one on center left appears (at least for Nikon images) to show the metering type, e.g., matrix, spot, etc. For my scanned images, there's a rectangle with a '?' in the middle.

I haven't figured out for sure what the camera icon does, but I suspect it shows white balance (I found one old Minolta jpg taken with WB set to tungsten for which the icon changed to a light bulb). Most of the shots in my test DB are RAW auto-WB.

[Mario]

The camera dashboard has a glitch in this version, see the corresponding bug report in the Bug Report forum

https://www.photools.com/community/index.php?topic=237.msg1191#msg1191

the panel does currently not always update to to show the info for the current file. I've fixed that already for the next update.

The dashboard is still a work in progress. It is very difficult to come up with consistent symbols and values across a wide range of cameras. Every vendor uses different symbols for the same purpose, different metadata values to carry the same information and so on. The symbols chosen are meant to be identifiable for all users, e.g. P, A, M, S for the shooting mode, the flash to indicate whether or not the flash was active, the focus indicator for center, dot or area auto focus etc.

[reader]

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The dashboard is still a work in progress. It is very difficult to come up with consistent symbols and values across a wide range of cameras. Every vendor uses different symbols for the same purpose, different metadata values to carry the same information and so on. The symbols chosen are meant to be identifiable for all users, e.g. P, A, M, S for the shooting mode, the flash to indicate whether or not the flash was active, the focus indicator for center, dot or area auto focus etc.

I can imagine it being a real PITA trying to keep up with dozens of manufacturers idea of which icons mean what.
(that smiley is my attempt at empathy..)

I suspect it's reading Maker Notes.

The one on center left appears (at least for Nikon images) to show the metering type, e.g., matrix, spot, etc. For my scanned images, there's a rectangle with a '?' in the middle.

I haven't figured out for sure what the camera icon does, but I suspect it shows white balance (I found one old Minolta jpg taken with WB set to tungsten for which the icon changed to a light bulb). Most of the shots in my test DB are RAW auto-WB.

Maybe this will help with newer versions of im5. . .  maybe just more noise.

I'm shooting with A sony SLT A65 (The newish series with {S}ingle {L}ens {T}ranslucent  instead of slr)

When I have the camera on Auto white balance, the icon in the Middle row, 2nd from left, looks like a tiny camera looking at us with lens a little off to the right lower quadrant.... you'd think that would have something to do with focus perhaps...

But when I have white balance on Manual (according to metadata on Im5) that same Icon turns into a lighbulb.





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