The above EXIF metadata viewer supports a large number of different compressed and RAW image formats.In particular, all the file types used by the major camera manufacturers (Canon, Fujifilm, Leica, Nikon, Olympus, Panasonic, Pentax, Ricoh, Sigma, Sony) can be inspected.
Since I'm getting more interested in photography and understanding camerasand techniques, I find myself wanting to know the details under which aphoto was taken. Modern digital cameras encode a lot of such data — shutterspeed, lens focal length, etc. — into the image file, generally called“Exif Data” (“Exif” stands for “ExchangeableImage File Format” and as an acronym would normally be written as “EXIF”, but the standard creatorsexplicitly say that it should be written “Exif”, which is nice.).
- Image and Exif Viewer Overview. Exchangeable image file format, Exif, is a standard that specifies the formats for images, sound, and ancillary tags used by digital cameras (including smartphones), scanners and other systems handling image and sound files recorded by digital cameras.
- Online Exif Viewer Upload or specify the URL of your image on the right to extract EXIF data contained within.
- #1 View The Image Via EXIF Viewer Add-On. In order to get the EXIF data from an image, you can install EXIF Viewer add-on in Firefox. Once the add-on is installed, right click on the image and select the View Image EXIF Data. The image shown below has been clicked from a digital camera.
As of Dec 2016 this tool has moved to http://exif.regex.info.
So, I wrotea littleonline Exifviewer to view whatever data might be encoded. Here's a screenshotusing the viewer on a picture from a recent post:
That's just the summary — you can see the full data usingthe tool itself.
The amount of data encoded in the image is quite variable. Many timesthere's just about nothing, as the data is stripped somewhere along theway. Here's a version of the previous picture with most datamissing. It's missing because it's a smaller version that's meant forweb display, and for such use the data just makes the file bigger andslower to download.
Geoencoded photos get links in the summary area to Google Maps and thelike, and below that is an embedded Google Maps pane. With either, you canswitch between Satellite and Map, and zoom, etc..
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Online Exif Viewer
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Exif Data Reader
You can also check images on your local hard drive — images directly froma camera generally have the most information. Give it a try!
If you're using Firefox orSafari, you have the added benefit that you can install an Exif-viewerbutton on your button-bar toolbar. Once you've done that, later, whenyou're viewing a page with an image you want to check out, just click thebutton and you'll be whisked to a new tab showing the image's data. I find this really useful. It doesn't work in IE, though, sorry.
Jeffrey's Image Exif Viewer
I use the viewer a lot on images I see in the Digital Photography Review Samples andGalleries forum. Lots of nice pictures in there. Many have their Exifdata stripped, but many do not.
Image Exif Viewer
Finally, I should note that my viewer makes use of Phil Harvey's mostexcellent Image::ExifToollibrary. Thanks Phil!