Topic: Exifer - a useful utiltiy for quickly manipulating thumbnails and exif data

[curvemeister]

I'm playing around with a program called Exifer, and have already found it useful enough to mention here. 

In addition to allowing me to quickly look at any image's internal camera and Photoshop data, this program does one thing that I have wanted for quite a while - it will rotate thumbnails independently of the image data, allowing me to clean up files where the thumb and image are out of synch. 

Exifer is a free download available from
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/Exifer.html

Mike

[Frits]

Mike,

I know this program!
that's to say , I don't use it much.
One thing , It can't do. Changing some of the camera Firmware version data.
Frits

[mdavis]

Why on earth would you want to change the camera EXIF version data?  The whole purpose of the EXIF data is to lock in the conditions under which the photo was taken.  If a program was available to "hack" the EXIF data, then there would be no way to guarantee that an image was un-manipulated in some way.  This is critical for work that I do in law enforcement in keeping "original" images in pristine condition for court purposes.

I'm not being critical, Fritz, just asking.....

[Frits]

Mike,

When you load a picture in a editing program and write it back to HD, the data contains  the name of
the program, you edited with.
I like to change that to the orginal photo- data.

frits

[Frits]

If a program was available to "hack" the EXIF data, then there would be no way to guarantee that an image was un-manipulated in some way.  This is critical for work that I do in law enforcement in keeping "original" images in pristine condition for court purposes.

I'm not being critical, Fritz, just asking.....

ADDUM,

I remember now, that I have ones found a program that could manipulate ALL the EXIF data.
But it is so long ago , and it was  not freeware, and I do not know the name anymore.
I will look in My Cilpmate remembers if I had saved the name of the program.
If I find it , I let you know.
Frits

[Frits]

Mike,

I 'm not 100% sure, but I think it is EXIFUTILS on :http://www.hugsan.com/EXIFutils/index.html

Frits

[Frits]

Mdavis,

Sorry, I haven't looked good  who write it about the exif prgr.
All the answers are of course to you!

Frits