Many thanks for this excellent and useful page.

Best,
Friedrich

I am an Italian/British photojournalist based in Nairobi, Kenya. Thank you so much for your Exif Viewer site. It’s been really helpful.

Can you please help me with something? I have a Canon 5D. I’m trying to find out how many shots I have taken with it so far. I used your Exif Viewer tool, which gives me detailed EXIF data. I’m guessing that the shutter count must be the “Preview Image Start”?. I am only confused as the numbers don’t seem to be in sequence. One image reads 91,812, the next 96,812 and the next 94,391. Any comment or advice?

Thanks Jeffrey, really appreciated.

Best,
Siegfried
“Preview Image Start” is an internal byte count, so it’s not what you want. Your camera may not encode the shutter actuations, so it may not be there. Search for “shutter” or “actuations” among the data. —Jeffrey

It sounds like the web sites you’re uploading to are stripping the metadata. You might ask them about it. —Jeffrey

I was wondering if it is possible to extract the exif data from a .TGA file
Your exif viewer (which I am an avid fan of) covers almost every image type except for this one, is there any particular reason? Could it be included at all?

Or if not, could you point me in the right direction as far as extracting it myself ? I have been searching on and off for a few days now.

Much appreciated,
Jethro

Sorry, I don’t know anything about TGA files. All the real work under the hood is done by ExifTool, so I don’t actually deal with the nitty-gritty details of data extraction. —Jeffrey

Love this tool, and I have a question. I accidentally cropped my original photo file (pressed “save” and not “save as”), and when I use your tool, it also shows the photo as it looked like before my edit but with low resolution. Is there any possibility for me to download the photo at it’s original state using your tool, or can you maybe advice me any other tool on the web?

Thank you
Camilla

What’s shown is what’s in the image, so there’s no better version magically available, sorry. —Jeffrey

I was wondering, does your tool download the entire image in order to extract the EXIF data our of it using exiftool?

Or are you reading the first set of bytes of the file we provide to generate the EXIF data?

I’m asking because I was shocked to see how quickly it was able to extract the EXIF data from a relatively large file. I’m trying to do something similar, where I can extract EXIF data from large QucikTime movies on the internet without having to download all of them.

Any info on this would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks
Conrad

The entire file must be read, but note that my server’s ISP (Peak Web Hosting) has pretty good bandwidth, so then the server downloads the file you point it at, it’s pretty fast. Also, the file is cached for a while in case it’s requested again, so subsequent calls will be immediate. —Jeffrey

ExifTool, which I use under the hood, has a standalone command-line version. Otherwise, various programs show some amount of metadata, but I don’t know of anything as detailed as the web tool, sorry. —Jeffrey

Sorry – I forgot to add that I use your tool to view photos on the Critique Form on iStockphoto.

It works for me on my Mac… I can’t quite envision anything that might account for what you’ve described… it seems very odd…. (???) —Jeffrey

Thank you for creating this useful online EXIF viewer tool.
I’m wondering if the photos we uploaded to the server gets deleted after usage or will it be stay there permanently? If so, how long does it stay there, and is there a way to delete them immediately?
After all, some photos are meant to be private..

Thanks!

-Cheryl

A sweeper cleans them out after a day or so, though they can be removed by the sweeper much sooner in some cases, such as when I’m running low on disk space. —Jeffrey

It’s not a standard field, and is not even put there by most cameras, and is often stripped out by Photoshop or other post processing. If it doesn’t show up in the display, it’s not there. —Jeffrey