What Is EXIF Data in Digital Photos?

Re:What Is EXIF Data in Digital Photos? by jmathai on Sunday July 31, 2022 @03:59AM (#32294068)

EXIF is the greatest thing about photos and videos. It makes every photo a tiny portable database of itself. A library of photos is a collection of these tiny databases which share a schema. Doesn’t matter what device takes the photo - and it’s been like this for decades.

I wrote a program that’s been organizing my photos based on EXIF for 7+ years [1].

I’ve also blogged about my reasoning (have co-founded 2 photo startups prior) [2, 3, 4, 5]. I’ve since moved off Google Photos to Synology Photos but haven’t written about that yet. Relying on EXIF makes that super easy.

1. https://github.com/jmathai/elodie

2. https://medium.com/@jmathai/understanding-my-need-for-an-aut...

3. https://medium.com/@jmathai/introducing-elodie-your-personal...

4. https://medium.com/@jmathai/my-automated-photo-workflow-usin...

5. https://medium.com/@jmathai/one-year-of-using-an-automated-p...

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Re:What Is EXIF Data in Digital Photos? by checkyoursudo on Sunday July 31, 2022 @07:16AM (#32294801)

I have been working on a program to organize photos by EXIF. My main dilemma has been what to do with photos that do not have an original date/time or create date.

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Re:What Is EXIF Data in Digital Photos? by pfarrell on Sunday July 31, 2022 @07:42AM (#32294900)

I have a similar personal project. In that case, I default to create date on the file. I am interested if there’s something more clever (that can be automated). I have a set of photos from 2005 from a digital camera that I know have the wrong dates but am unsure the exact correct ones.

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