Can EXIF identify which Panasonic burst or bracket sequence a photo belongs to?
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On a Panasonic GX800, the MakerNote tag Exif.Panasonic.SequenceNumber shows a photo’s position within a burst or exposure-bracketing sequence (for example, 1 for the first frame, 7 for the seventh). Is there any EXIF or MakerNote field that identifies the sequence itself, so I can tell which images belong to the same burst/bracket set?
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For some use cases you could use time as a fairly strong heuristic. For instance, given a fairly consistent framerate of (say, for simplicity's sake) 1/s, then subtracting the ordinal from datetimeoriginal should give you results within a fairly narrow range. This could of course fail if you're shooting really fast bursts in fast sequence.
You could also use this method only as a fallback for the cases where the filename no longer provides the photo's own ordinal number, further reducing the likelihood of errors.
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There does not appear to be a Panasonic EXIF field that uniquely identifies the burst or bracket sequence itself. SequenceNumber only tells you the frame’s position within a sequence, not which sequence it belongs to.
A practical workaround is to group images by capture time. If the camera shoots at a fairly consistent frame rate, photos from the same burst will have very close timestamps, and combining that with SequenceNumber can help reconstruct likely groups. For example, comparing DateTimeOriginal values while accounting for the frame’s ordinal can be a useful heuristic.
If original filenames are still available, they can also help as a secondary clue, since numbering often preserves shooting order.
So the short answer is: not reliably from EXIF alone, based on the information provided. You’ll likely need to infer sequence membership from timestamps, file order, and/or filenames.
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