[Originally posted by exiftool on 2009-03-11 16:59:51-07]I just discovered today that Flickr is now using ExifTool to
extract meta information for its database. Although they don't
acknowledge this, it is obvious from the ExifTool-specific
formatting of some values. It looks like they made the change
around the end of December 2008 because images uploaded
after this all seem to use ExifTool. Cool.
Below is the the text displayed by Flickr when you click on
"More properties" for a recently uploaded image from a
Canon PowerShot camera. If you use ExifTool a lot, you should
recognize that the values correspond exactly to ExifTool's
(sometimes quirky) formatting:
- Phil
ISO Speed: 80
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: Off
File Size: 3.0 MB
File Type: JPEG
MIME Type: image/jpeg
Image Width: 3264
Image Height: 2448
Encoding Process: Baseline DCT, Huffman coding
Bits Per Sample: 8
Color Components: 3
Orientation: Horizontal (normal)
X-Resolution: 180 dpi
Y-Resolution: 180 dpi
Date and Time (Modified): 2009:03:07 11:59:07
YCbCr Positioning: Centered
Date and Time (Original): 2009:03:07 11:59:07
Date and Time (Digitized): 2009:03:07 11:59:07
Compressed Bits Per Pixel: 5
Max Aperture Value: 3.5
Metering Mode: Multi-segment
Color Space: sRGB
Focal Plane X-Resolution: 14506.66667 dpi
Focal Plane Y-Resolution: 14485.2071 dpi
Sensing Method: One-chip color area
Custom Rendered: Normal
Exposure Mode: Auto
White Balance: Auto
Digital Zoom Ratio: 1
Scene Capture Type: Standard
Macro Mode: Normal
Self Timer: Off
Quality: Superfine
Canon Flash Mode: Off
Continuous Drive: Single
Focus Mode: Single
Record Mode: JPEG
Canon Image Size: Large
Easy Mode: Manual
Digital Zoom: None
Contrast: Normal
Saturation: Normal
Sharpness: 0
Camera ISO: Auto
Metering Mode: Evaluative
Focus Range: Auto
AFPoint: Manual AF point selection
Canon Exposure Mode: Aperture-priority AE
Lens Type: Unknown (-1)
Long Focal: 60 mm
Short Focal: 6 mm
Focal Units: 1000
Max Aperture: 3.6
Min Aperture: 8
Flash Bits: (none)
Focus Continuous: Single
AESetting: Normal AE
Image Stabilization: On
Zoom Source Width: 3264
Zoom Target Width: 3264
Spot Metering Mode: Center
Manual Flash Output: n/a
Focal Type: Zoom
Focal Plane XSize: 5.84 mm
Focal Plane YSize: 4.39 mm
Auto ISO: 84
Base ISO: 100
Measured EV: 12.19
Target Aperture: 8
Target Exposure Time: 1/807
White Balance: Auto
Slow Shutter: Off
Sequence Number: 0
Optical Zoom Code: 7
Flash Guide Number: 0
Flash Exposure Comp: 0
Auto Exposure Bracketing: Off
AEBBracket Value: 0
Control Mode: Camera Local Control
Focus Distance Upper: 65.53
Focus Distance Lower: 0
Bulb Duration: 0
Camera Type: Compact
Auto Rotate: None
NDFilter: Off
Self Timer2: 0
Flash Output: 0
Canon Firmware Version: Firmware Version 1.00
File Number: 100-3700
[Owner Name removed]
Rotation: 0
Canon Model ID: PowerShot SX100 IS
AFMode: Single-point AF
Num AFPoints: 9
Valid AFPoints: 1
AFArea Widths: 18 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
AFArea Heights: 18 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Primary AFPoint: 0
Date Stamp Mode: Off
My Color Mode: Off
Firmware Revision: 1.00 rev 3.00
Categories: (none)
Faces Detected: 0
Face Detect Frame Width: 0
Face Detect Frame Height: 0
VRDOffset: 0
Related Image Width: 3264
Related Image Height: 2448
Compression: JPEG (old-style)
[Originally posted by exiftool on 2009-03-11 17:21:48-07]I should have put a link to Flickr instead of cutting and pasting.
Here
is the Flickr page showing this meta informationAnd for those of you who don't know, imaging-resource.com also uses
ExifTool for their meta information extraction:
Here
is a sample Imaging-Resource Exif Report page- Phil
[Originally posted by bogdan on 2009-03-11 18:25:52-07]
Hi Phil,
My opinion on this ("...they don't acknowledge this...")... I admit, I didn't read carefully about Exiftool (open source, freeware, whatever...) policy/disclaimer.
Still, even if Exiftool is *full* freeware, one who uses it, should make/write at least some credit to author. And as in this case (commercial, I believe), some donation wouldn't hurt, though.
Just my 2c -no need to comment :-)
Greetings,
Bogdan