Exif Data

[rusty]

Bear with me as I am fairly new to digital photography , when I look at pictures posted on the forum there is often ref to the camera settings as seen in the exif data.
I know that the album software on my laptop shows all the exif data when I click on the thumbnail but how do people check what settings posters have used if they have not specifically posted the information.
I see reference made to " from the exif data " Q how can I access it. ?

Thanks.

[Ewan]

There's a few different programs that will do it. Or there's an online one Here (http://www.wisegeek.com/how-can-i-view-the-exif-data-of-a-photograph.htm)

This is what i use most. It won't work unless you have Mozzilla Firefox as your web browser though.

clicky here (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3905)

[Janice]

Or Opanda exif viewer it gives you a right click capability on your mouse click to view the exif details.


http://www.opanda.com/en/iexif/

[rusty]

Thanks for the information.

Downloaded Opanda and works fine but I have to export the photo to the program , is that correct . Couldn"t work out how to enable the right click facility as mentioned by Janice. , I take it that when it says no exif date , thats because the poster hasn"t included it ?

[Ewan]

Sometimes using photoshop or other editing software will "strip" an image of its exif data. I'm not sure what determines whether or not it does this :shrug: Something to do with how you save the image.

[ppp]

the right click option should just be on by default if not if you open the software and then click on options there si a tick box that is labelled " enable internet explorer and shell right click integration" or something to that effect. enavle that and restart the computer

[madmitch]

I downloaded it as soon as i saw Janice's post and it worked right click straight away.:thumbs:

[Jonnyreb]

If you use the 'save for web and other devices' action on Photoshop it will quite deliberately strip exif.

[Cobra]

Or Opanda exif viewer it gives you a right click capability on your mouse click to view the exif details.


http://www.opanda.com/en/iexif/

Thanks Janice very useful :thumbs:

[rusty]

the right click option should just be on by default if not if you open the software and then click on options there si a tick box that is labelled " enable internet explorer and shell right click integration" or something to that effect. enavle that and restart the computer

Just restarted the laptop and right click works fine now , thanks.:)