Exposure Program
0x8822Also: ExposureProgram
Which shooting mode was used.
This tag records the mode the camera was in: Manual (1), Program AE (2), Aperture-priority (3), Shutter-priority (4) and more. It reveals how much control the photographer handed to the camera.
What the stored number means
Exposure Program is an enumeration: the file holds a bare integer and the reader looks it up. These are the values, and the wording is the wording the viewer on this site will print.
| Value | Shown as |
|---|---|
| 0 | Not defined |
| 1 | Manual |
| 2 | Normal program |
| 3 | Aperture priority |
| 4 | Shutter priority |
| 5 | Creative program |
| 6 | Action program |
| 7 | Portrait mode |
| 8 | Landscape mode |
Firmware fills this in inconsistently. Plenty of bodies write 0 (Not defined) no matter which mode the dial was on, and many phones write 2 (Normal program) for every photo they take. Treat a value here as something the firmware asserted rather than something that was observed.
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