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Old 22-05-2009, 12:15 PM
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Re: Viewing Photo Data

There are two ways KT.

The first is to use windows explorer to find the image file, right click on it and select "Properties" from the pop-up menu. Go to the "Summary" tab and click on the advanced button. You will see something like this...



You can see that you used 55mm as your focal length, you didn't use flash and you were shooting at 1/200th of a second, f10 and ISO 200. You were in Aperture Priority and using Centre Weighted metering.

Another way to do it, that you can use to see the shooting details of most people's images in the Gallery is to install an EXIF viewer. I use Opanda which is free and you should find with a simple Google search. You need to be viewing the full size image in the Gallery and then right click it and select "View EXIF/GPS/IPTC" from the pop-up menu. This is what the result looks like for your woodruff image...



It shows more info than Windows Explorer but probably nothing extra that you'd be particularly interested in. Some people's uploads to the Gallery don't include EXIF data but I'm not sure why. I think it depends on which image editor they use to save it.

Dave P.

P.s. I've just spotted that the Opanda EXIF Viewer shows you had dialled in -1/3rd of a stop negative exposure compensation. I don't think windows would have told you that.
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