

Just right click any image file, choose Properties and click the Details tab.
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You may be a bit surprised but Windows Explorer is actually a wonderful Exif editor. WIth an Exif editor, you can also geo-tag your photographs manually even if your camera doesn’t have GPS. Or you want to add your name to the photograph’s metadata so that people immediately know who the owner is. Why would anyone want to modify the Exif data of photographs? Well, there can be several genuine reasons.įor instance, the internal date of your camera was incorrect and therefore all the pictures were captured with a wrong timestamp. The tool will create a nice summary of all the meta data stored in that photograph along with the location information ( see example).Īlternatively, you may use Google’s Picasa, Windows Live Photo Gallery, or any other photo viewer programs to display Exif data from photographs on your desktop.Īlso see: Where was a Photograph Taken? 2. Go to Jeffrey’s Exif Viewer and upload the photograph (or if you found the picture on the web, simply copy-paste the image URL).


If you are impressed by a photograph and would like to know more about the camera make and the lens settings that were used when capturing that picture, here’s what you can do do. Some modern digital cameras and camera phones are GPS enabled and they can therefore save even the location co-ordinates (latitude and longitude) with the photographs.Īll this “metadata” is embedded into photographs using the standard Exif format that can easily be read by most image editing programs as well as online photo sharing websites like Flickr and Picasa Web Albums. The information that is recorded by the camera into the photograph may include details about the camera model itself, the lens that was used, shutter speed, aperture, focal length and so on. When you capture a photograph with your digital camera, the camera will not only store the current date and time into the image file but even the camera settings.
