diff --git a/src/ImageSharp/Common/Extensions/EncoderExtensions.cs b/src/ImageSharp/Common/Extensions/EncoderExtensions.cs
index 82899863c..59c878485 100644
--- a/src/ImageSharp/Common/Extensions/EncoderExtensions.cs
+++ b/src/ImageSharp/Common/Extensions/EncoderExtensions.cs
@@ -20,6 +20,11 @@ namespace SixLabors.ImageSharp
         /// <returns>The string.</returns>
         public static string GetString(this Encoding encoding, ReadOnlySpan<byte> buffer)
         {
+            if (buffer.Length == 0)
+            {
+                return string.Empty;
+            }
+
             fixed (byte* bytes = buffer)
             {
                 return encoding.GetString(bytes, buffer.Length);
diff --git a/tests/ImageSharp.Tests/Common/EncoderExtensionsTests.cs b/tests/ImageSharp.Tests/Common/EncoderExtensionsTests.cs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e1b4fc790
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/ImageSharp.Tests/Common/EncoderExtensionsTests.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+// Copyright (c) Six Labors and contributors.
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
+
+using System;
+using System.Text;
+using Xunit;
+
+namespace SixLabors.ImageSharp.Tests.Common
+{
+    public class EncoderExtensionsTests
+    {
+        [Fact]
+        public void GetString_EmptyBuffer_ReturnsEmptyString()
+        {
+            var buffer = new ReadOnlySpan<byte>();
+
+            string result = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(buffer);
+
+            Assert.Equal(string.Empty, result);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void GetString_Buffer_ReturnsString()
+        {
+            var buffer = new ReadOnlySpan<byte>(new byte[] { 73, 109, 97, 103, 101, 83, 104, 97, 114, 112 });
+
+            string result = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(buffer);
+
+            Assert.Equal("ImageSharp", result);
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/tests/ImageSharp.Tests/Formats/Jpg/JpegDecoderTests.Images.cs b/tests/ImageSharp.Tests/Formats/Jpg/JpegDecoderTests.Images.cs
index 6bc559978..17a0ff263 100644
--- a/tests/ImageSharp.Tests/Formats/Jpg/JpegDecoderTests.Images.cs
+++ b/tests/ImageSharp.Tests/Formats/Jpg/JpegDecoderTests.Images.cs
@@ -26,7 +26,9 @@ namespace SixLabors.ImageSharp.Tests.Formats.Jpg
                 TestImages.Jpeg.Issues.ExifDecodeOutOfRange694,
                 TestImages.Jpeg.Issues.InvalidEOI695,
                 TestImages.Jpeg.Issues.ExifResizeOutOfRange696,
-                TestImages.Jpeg.Issues.InvalidAPP0721
+                TestImages.Jpeg.Issues.InvalidAPP0721,
+                TestImages.Jpeg.Issues.ExifGetString750Load,
+                TestImages.Jpeg.Issues.ExifGetString750Transform
             };
 
         public static string[] ProgressiveTestJpegs =
diff --git a/tests/ImageSharp.Tests/TestImages.cs b/tests/ImageSharp.Tests/TestImages.cs
index 758f25634..03f875485 100644
--- a/tests/ImageSharp.Tests/TestImages.cs
+++ b/tests/ImageSharp.Tests/TestImages.cs
@@ -160,6 +160,8 @@ namespace SixLabors.ImageSharp.Tests
                 public const string OrderedInterleavedProgressive723A = "Jpg/issues/Issue723-Ordered-Interleaved-Progressive-A.jpg";
                 public const string OrderedInterleavedProgressive723B = "Jpg/issues/Issue723-Ordered-Interleaved-Progressive-B.jpg";
                 public const string OrderedInterleavedProgressive723C = "Jpg/issues/Issue723-Ordered-Interleaved-Progressive-C.jpg";
+                public const string ExifGetString750Transform = "Jpg/issues/issue750-exif-tranform.jpg";
+                public const string ExifGetString750Load = "Jpg/issues/issue750-exif-load.jpg";
             }
 
             public static readonly string[] All = Baseline.All.Concat(Progressive.All).ToArray();
diff --git a/tests/Images/External b/tests/Images/External
index ee90e5f32..c6980db77 160000
--- a/tests/Images/External
+++ b/tests/Images/External
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit ee90e5f32218027744b5d40058b587cc1047b76f
+Subproject commit c6980db777e49d5e526b56cb986001d1a191acdf
diff --git a/tests/Images/Input/Jpg/issues/issue750-exif-load.jpg b/tests/Images/Input/Jpg/issues/issue750-exif-load.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..219e902dd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/Images/Input/Jpg/issues/issue750-exif-load.jpg
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:f0919126bfa5be74782e6db4bd8fb82c6211ea2cca1f6b76cfa9cee7fdd418ff
+size 36885
diff --git a/tests/Images/Input/Jpg/issues/issue750-exif-tranform.jpg b/tests/Images/Input/Jpg/issues/issue750-exif-tranform.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..342a2dde6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/Images/Input/Jpg/issues/issue750-exif-tranform.jpg
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:14bd38b41f94e86c56ebc3b1612ced04fa4741982d916e01d6e3bf75e6c80f26
+size 5587341