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Really the answer to the question involves 3 parts. 1) First I edited my original post above to include. That this is only about processing "One Image" in the HDR Processing screen. I've never tried to process more than one at once, and didn't know it's purpose, that of processing more than one, and doing some-sort-of combination of images. Combining images was not apart of the question at all. 2) As Shadowsports points out. A feature request seems logical. (Although his example was a Star Trek motion picture transporter accident). I will post a simple example, of one photo, not an "oh no they're forming" example. (umm that's a quote from the movie if you didn't get it...) Could the processing be done in another tool? Maybe, but the work is done for me already, why not use it, before I have to. And the results sometimes are where I need it. 3) Using the Exiftool is the ticket to fix the problem in the mean-time, if its that important to me. I can add the data back in from the original .CR3 file. It was not exactly what others had posted on this thread, but rather reminding me of the tool. So that's what prompted me to look up how to copy one files data to another. So all I'll need to do is: exiftool -TagsFromFile {file...}.CR3 {File... HDR-Processed}.jpg
While others have mentioned that some of the exif data would differ among the photos composited, it would be possible to use exiftool to copy the metadata from one of the raw files that you think represents the image closely enough.
For example, I did this to copy information to a composite:
exiftool -TagsFromFile IMG_6759.CR3 -makernotes -make -model DC_IMG_6759-6764.JPG exiftool -TagsFromFile IMG_6764.CR3 -Canon:Image:FocusDistanceUpper DC_IMG_6759-6764.JPG
The focus distance for both the first image (FocusDistanceLower) and last image (FocusDistanceUpper) was then in the composite image as well as the ISO, focal length, and shutter speed.
Really the answer to the question involves 3 parts. 1) First I edited my original post above to include. That this is only about processing "One Image" in the HDR Processing screen. I've never tried to process more than one at once, and didn't know it's purpose, that of processing more than one, and doing some-sort-of combination of images. Combining images was not apart of the question at all. 2) As Shadowsports points out. A feature request seems logical. (Although his example was a Star Trek motion picture transporter accident). I will post a simple example, of one photo, not an "oh no they're forming" example. (umm that's a quote from the movie if you didn't get it...) Could the processing be done in another tool? Maybe, but the work is done for me already, why not use it, before I have to. And the results sometimes are where I need it. 3) Using the Exiftool is the ticket to fix the problem in the mean-time, if its that important to me. I can add the data back in from the original .CR3 file. It was not exactly what others had posted on this thread, but rather reminding me of the tool. So that's what prompted me to look up how to copy one files data to another. So all I'll need to do is: exiftool -TagsFromFile {file...}.CR3 {File... HDR-Processed}.jpg
That's funny I don't appear to be missing anything. I was just following the internet instructions. The image below is from my command.
