Note An application that fixes broken metadata of DNG (RAW) files generated by the Google Camera app built on top of JavaFX.
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When saving both the JPG and DNG (RAW) photos, the Google Camera application on Pixel smartphones generates DNG files with missing or invalid metadata (see thereafter for an example). Multiple bug reports have been reported to Google (1, 2, 3, 4) but no fix has been provided yet. This application uses the JPG files and copy their metadata to fix the DNG files.
Simply copy the JPG (sdcard/DCIM/Camera
) and DNG (sdcard/Pictures/Raw
) files to a single folder.
Choose that directory in the application and hit the big button!
That's it.
Make sure ExifTool is installed and on the path (exiftool -ver
to test).
You'll also need the JRE (or JDK) 17 to run the application from the JAR or sources.
Run the fat JAR:
java -jar pixel-dng-fixer-1.0.3.jar
Or run the application from sources:
mvn compile exec:java
The following metadata are currently supported:
Warning The depth map metadata are missing from DNG files but not copied yet.
This is an example of photo metadata, as created by the Google Camera app with a Pixel 4a 5G and reported by ExifTool.
ExifTool tag JPG photo DNG photo
============ ========= =========
ISO 67 64
APERTURE 1.72907446261573 1.69999970969816
SHUTTER_SPEED 0.000128139243606331 0.00012822898256381
METERING_MODE 2 null
FNUMBER 1.73 1.7
EXPOSURE_TIME 0.000128 0.0001282291487
EXPOSURE_PROGRAM 2 null
GPS_LATITUDE 35.5515083333333 null
GPS_LATITUDE_REF N null
GPS_LONGITUDE 24.1923444444444 null
GPS_LONGITUDE_REF E null
GPS_ALTITUDE 80.91 null
GPS_ALTITUDE_REF 0 null
GPS_TIMESTAMP 07:31:40 null
SUB_SEC_TIME_ORIGINAL 129 164973
GPS_IMG_DIRECTION 41 null
GPS_IMG_DIRECTION_REF M null
OFFSET_TIME +03:00 null
SOFTWARE HDR+ 1.0.377695977zd HDR+ 1.0.377695977zd
MAKE Google Google
MODEL Pixel 4a (5G) Pixel 4a (5G)
Contributions, discussions and bug reports are always welcome!
The application is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE for more information.
mvn clean package