Photo data for posted images?

Perhaps I'm just not seeing it, but I really enjoyed and often learned from the photo data that accompanied the images one posted at dpreview. I'm not seeing that data when I post my images here or view other's images.

Thanks,

Den

There is no such feature. You could use a browser extension. For FF, and I've heard Chrome, Exify works well.

That's unfortunate, but thanks for your response.

Den

Early days. We'll have to wait for features.

It will happen eventually. There are many things the site hosts are working on.

I'm using the free version of IrfanView. I was able to copy the EXIF data to the clipboard with a push of a button. Then I copied multiple EXIF data sets into a MS Word document. Then with VBA programming code I was able to extract the six sections I wanted. I have done extremely little MS Word VBA programming. With internet information and what I know, I was able to quickly write some code. It does not have error protection and I just don't know enough about the syntax to make more changes right now. But I got something to work.

You can see what I developed on the Canon APS-C category under Photo Test. I just started this today, so it's very preliminary.

Here's the code. "TheEnd seen below is 4 for five EXIF data sets. In the MS Word Document, there can't be a space at the top and there has to be a space between the EXIF data sets to match the code.

Remember that this is for IrfanView and for use with MS Word. Make sure that the version of IrfanView you are using, matches with the results I got. You may be able to modify this code for your own photo software too.

Sub EXIFDataMultiple()

Dim A As Integer: Dim B As Integer: Dim TheEnd As Integer: Dim EXIFLen As Integer: Dim vardata

'******************
' This code is written for multiple EXIF data sets for each image. * ' TheEnd is any additional image EXIF data beyond the first one. * ' For example, when TheEnd is two, this is for three sets of image EXIF data. * ' EXIFLen is the fixed number of EXIF data lines plus one; that is 103 + 1 (allowing for one space) * ' The EXIF data must be inserted in the MS Word document with one separating space to match the code. * '******************

TheEnd = 4
EXIFLen = 104

For A = 0 To TheEnd

For B = 0 To 6
vardata = Array(1 + EXIFLen * A, 3 + EXIFLen * A, 13 + EXIFLen * A, 14 + EXIFLen * A, 16 + EXIFLen * A, 27 + EXIFLen * A, 47 + EXIFLen * A)
ActiveDocument.Paragraphs(vardata(B)).Range.Copy
Set myRange = ActiveDocument.Range(Start:=ActiveDocument.Content.End - 1, End:=ActiveDocument.Content.End - 1)
myRange.Paste

Next B

Next A

End Sub

If anyone has other ideas, please let us know. With programming it's work in progress, always subject to change. :-) If any other people have questions, I hope other Microsoft Office programmers will be able to help. I could have used MS Excel, but I started with MS Word. I'm not sure how it would work in MS Excel, but if the EXIF data line was in each separate cell, then that would have been easy...just haven't explored that option yet. Don't forget to read my comments too that are surrounded by asterisks. We always have to do that and it's important to know. :-)

Understood.

Den

Also Mocha over at the APS-C Canon forum wrote his own program that he may be able to share. I couldn't get it to work, so I developed something that I was pretty much sure would be good. When I saw that IrfanView allowed us to copy the EXIF data to the clipboard, I knew we were home free to be able to create something.

The code I wrote may be a little complicated, if you are not a programmer.

Here's the code if you just want to copy and paste one EXIF data set at a time, rather than doing multiple ones.

What it does is copy the first line, third line, thirteenth line, fourteenth line, sixteenth line, twenty-seventh line and forty-seventh line and paste them at the bottom of the MS Word Document. Try it out. Put the code in a Macro module by pushing Alt-F11. Then run it by pushing the little arrow at the top in the ribbon, between the word "Debug" and "Run". Or push F5. Go ahead, try it...make mistakes...modify...it's completely safe. Just remember to save your data each time, in case you write some code that crashes everything. It's rare but it does happen.

After I push the copy-to-clipboard button in IrfanView I push Ctrl+V to paste it in the MS Word document.

Sub EXIFData()
Dim A As Integer
Dim vardata
vardata = Array(1, 3, 13, 14, 16, 27, 47)
For A = 0 To 6
ActiveDocument.Paragraphs(vardata(A)).Range.Copy
Set myRange = ActiveDocument.Range _ (Start:=ActiveDocument.Content.End - 1, _ End:=ActiveDocument.Content.End - 1)
myRange.Paste
Next A
End Sub

I also find exif data interesting, and I understand this is a new forum so I will be patient. Hopefully it will be implemented as it was on DPReview.

There are many EXIF data retrieving utilities out there.

Specifically to enable an overlay similar to that on DPReview, we need to add scripts to the html to read and display in the browser on mouse over. There is exif-js: javascript, a python one and no doubt others. Exif-js is the likely choice for this site.

For your own use, whatever works. And nothing is more satisfying than creating your own...

Thank you for that information. I need something like that (for a project of my own) and thought it needed to be server side. I didn't know JS could do it. That would be good enough. I'll look into that Exif-js. 👍

Charlotte (@meow) turned me on to Exify - it works great. The site strips EXIF from the large thumbnails it displays when you upload and click embed, however, the uploaded image still has it; so if you click on the thumbnail, opening another tab with the original image displayed, then go to that tab, Exify will display the main EXIF data. If the magnifying glass shows up as your cursor, just move it off the image and back on and the EXIF data will appear at the bottom of the image.

By default, Exify displays Camera & Lens; f/stop, focal length, aperture, shutter speed, and ISO.

Ohps, my example image was too narrow so ISO didn't show up - on the larger image it does.

If you click on the icon at the right of that text this additional information will appear:

Admittedly, not as convenient as it was in DPReview - but a reasonable work around until DPRevived gets around to addressing the issue.

Most browsers have their own extensions / plugins to enable viewing exif data without having to upload your pic to another site. All pp software also shows it and most photo viewers. Even the default photo viewer in windows shows it (with bugs - if you view exif (info icon), then close info, scroll through your pics, then select info, the data of the first pic is still shown - you need to scroll with the info screen open - of course this sort of bug is nothing new to windows 🤣)

For
Firefox: FxIF
Chrome: exif-vewer-extension
MS Edge: Exif viewer

This would be the simplest method until it is working on this site.

Still won't work on the embedded large thumbnails.
DPRevived strips the EXIF from them.

Sorry, I didn't read your first post closely enough.
Back to square one.
I think I read somewhere that some resizing tools strip exif, so it should be fixable

I've not been able to get Exify to work on my Android 12 phone. Only on my PC.