PHOTOGRAPHY: About EXIF Data
(Read the full article...)You may have heard about EXIF data and wondered what it was. Very simply EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format) is a variation of JPEG, used by almost all digital cameras to record extra information to image files as they are taken. The information recorded may include details about camera settings such as exposure values, f-stop setting whether the flash was used or not as well as the date and time that the original photograph was taken. In this screen shot you can see the type of information captured by a Nikon 5700.