If you want to install it, you’re welcome to download it here. This application is written in VB.NET and the source code is available on GitHub. If you want all the EXIF data, you can click “File→Show All EXIF Data…” and a dialog will appear showing everything: It displays the most-commonly used EXIF data on the main interface and, if there’s GPS information embedded in the metadata, it shows a button to view the photo’s location on Google Maps. To make this easy, I wrote a simple Windows application that will display this data for a selected photo: However, there are a lot of times that I want to view this data locally for unpublished photos on my PC. Most, if not all, photos on my photography site have this data tagged onto them and the basic data can be viewed by clicking the “View Photo Data and Location” button under the photo: For myself, I keep it intact as I hope it might be helpful to other photographers to understand how a photo was capture as well as being an aid in enforcing copyright. Some photographers post their images online with this information intact, while others will strip it out when posting, keeping their secret sauce to themselves. This, along with another group of metadata, IPTC, is used by digital photographers to keep track of information about such things as camera/lens settings, geographic information and copyright of a given photo. Basically, it’s metadata tagged onto a digital image that contains information about that image. And, no, I don’t know why it’s not “EXIFF”. EXIF is an acronym for EXchangeable Image File Format. If you’ve read the title of this post and are wondering “what is this EXIF thing?”, then here’s a bit of information. (Note: This post originally appeared on my new mostly-non-photography blog )

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