{"id":152,"date":"2006-02-20T11:56:12","date_gmt":"2006-02-20T02:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2006-02-20\/152"},"modified":"2006-02-20T11:56:12","modified_gmt":"2006-02-20T02:56:12","slug":"online-exif-image-data-viewer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2006-02-20\/152","title":{"rendered":"Online Exif (Image Data) Viewer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n

\n\nSince I'm getting more interested in photography and understanding cameras\nand techniques, I find myself<\/span> wanting to know the details under which a\nphoto<\/span> was taken. Modern digital cameras encode a lot<\/span> of such data — shutter\nspeed, lens focal length, etc. — into the image file, generally called\n“Exif Data” (“Exif” stands for “Exchangeable\nImage File Format” and as an acronym would normally be written as “EXIF”, but the standard creators\nexplicitly say that it should be written “Exif”, which is nice.).\n\n<\/p>\n\n

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As of Dec 2016 this tool has moved to http:\/\/exif.regex.info<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n\n

\n\nSo, I wrote<\/span> a little<\/span> online Exif\nviewer<\/a> to view whatever data might be encoded. Here's a screenshot<\/span>\nusing the viewer on a picture<\/span> from a recent post<\/a>:\n\n<\/p>\n\n
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\n\nThat's just the summary — you can see the full data using\nthe tool itself<\/a>.\n\n<\/p>

\n\nThe amount of data encoded in the image is quite variable. Many times\nthere's just about nothing, as the data is stripped somewhere along the\nway. Here's a version<\/span> of the previous picture with most data\nmissing<\/a>. It's missing<\/span> because it's a smaller<\/span> version that's meant for\nweb display, and for such use the data just makes the file bigger and\nslower to download.\n\n<\/p>

\n\nGeoencoded photos get links in the summary area to Google Maps and the\nlike, and below that is an embedded Google Maps pane. With either, you can\nswitch between Satellite and Map, and zoom, etc..\n\n<\/p>\n

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