Questions about EXIF

[toonamp]

Hello. I'm relatively new here, and quite green about photography in general.

The EXIF facility gives me an insight into the camera the photographer used, and many of the settings, without me having to continually ask. All very helpfull for my steep learning curve

Firstly, EXIF can't pick up the information from some photographs. Have the photographers put a block on it? If so why?

That brings me to another question, Is it considered ok to use EXIF, or do some people object to having their settings revealed?

I have the one that works with 'Properties' in firefox, and EXIFreader. Any better ones?

Thanks in advance for any enlightenment

 

[Forbiddenbiker]

No using EXIF is always good ... On my images its stripped by the Macromedia software I use to make images for the web, probably a similar story to many members images which is why you can't find them occasionally. ... I do put up my settings if its important or interesting... otherwise I'll quite happily put them up if asked.

 

[RobertP]

The exif takes up a little of the file size that would otherwise be pixels so some may remove it for that reason. Mostly it is removed either by a 'save for web' in Photoshop (because it is easier to use than 'save as' that keeps exif) or because people upload to sharing sites that do the resizing for you and in the process discard the exif.

I always leave the exif in my posted pictures.

 

[Dogfish_magnet]

I use this, its free and quite good.

 

[toonamp]

All very helpfull everyone

Thanks Paul, I've downloaded that one, and I'll use it in conjuction with the others.

And thank you Adam and Robert, with those explanations, I can feel more at ease that I'm not infringing on any ones privacy.

I thought maybe the profesionals did'nt want the likes of me seeing their methods.

 

[Deleted member 3428]

I always leave mine in unless I have focus stacked an image which changes it. I use this reader plugin for Firefox Opanda

 

[toonamp]

Thanks Alby