Thanks,
Jim

You can feel free to link your photos to my online tool, but otherwise I’ve got nothing to offer, sorry, but if you’re into a little scripting, it’s trivial to make your own using the same underlying ExifTool engine I use. —Jeffrey

You can make it bigger with a variety of image-editing software (and even “Preview” on Mac), but it will just be a big version of the blurry picture, as they can’t manufacture new image information from nothing. Unless you get lucky and find a backup of the image, you’re probably out of luck, though if it’s on a disk that hasn’t really been touched much in those five years, you might see whether you can extracted a previously-deleted version with PhotoRec or the like. On the bright side, you have the actual person at hand, so you can go ahead and make lots of new memories for your hopefully-long future together. Congratulations. —Jeffrey

Suzanne
Montreal area

You should probably ask PBase how you can have their site exclude data, but you can also strip it before you send it to them. SubjetDistance is likely in the MakerNotes section (but may also be as SubjectDistanceRange in the Exif section0, so something along the lines of “exiftool -MakerNotes= -SubjectDistanceRange= *.JPG“ should probably do the trick. —Jeffrey

I’m trying to get some Google Places pictures to be geotagged. Google is having an issue that is preventing site owners from uploading photos from 3rd party sites like Flickr where you can geotag them.

So I used a software, I think it’s called, geosetter, and I’d like to see if it works, or if I did it right. I put the url in your field there and what i got back did not have address, coordinates or satellite images.

Can you tell me if this was geotagged?

http://lh5.googleusercontent.com/public/j8W-QK6qal5HombUWA4HDwPVYU6owXcf4j0Qs15Tbr_KlYY7dzWUDs0FyaPrGI1dHMUlP7xYhvzz_dQXIAMl7fVPTDAR4aZh8mzkQva9Oryylk3J4sQb35P0

Thanks so much!!!

That tiny thumbnail is not geoencoded, but I would never expect tiny thumbnails to be… generally, all metadata is stripped from thumbnails like that to make them load faster. Some sites (e.g. Facebook) strip metadata from every image they make available, while other places have their own policies. I dunno about Google, but if you can check the original or largest version available, check that. —Jeffrey

I don’t know that the info is in there to being with, but if it is it’d be in the “Maker Notes” section, likely with a label that includes “Shutter”, “Actuations”, and/or “Count”. —Jeffrey

Great tool you got here. I have one question regarding date, modify date and create date.

Let´s say I take a picture with my iPhone the 10th of december 2012. My iphone have the correct set of date. I then transfer it to my computer 15th of december 2012 and mail it to a friend 17th of december.

Is it possible that the creation date changes to 15 of december or 17 of december just because of the transfer from the Iphone?

I live in sweden, Best regards Fredrik

If you’re just moving the image file, then you’re not changing any data inside. However, a “transfer” and “mail” may be more than just moving the raw bytes of the file… it depends on what’s doing it. —Jeffrey

I love your website, it is extremely detailed and helpful. I do have one question regarding ICC Profile Dates. What do these dates indicate? When the photograph was taken, when it was scanned, when it was uploaded, etc.? Thanks again for a very valuable resource!

The dates I’ve seen in profiles tend to be when they were designed, e.g. sRGB 1998, or when someone happened to build it for their company. Dates inside profiles unrelated to anything about the photo they’re in. —Jeffrey

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