Looking at the debian/rules file it does not specify --with-libexif to configure so I think that by default it is not built with libexif support. I have the same problem with a Canon 350D here. I have just compiled the 0.7 version using the same rules file, adding in the --with-libexif argument and now it is reading the EXIF data fine.
Thanks john
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