That file has exif for Software as being adobe, but the field for
camera model is blank.

It could be that the camera didn't record exif. Or maybe the original
author intentionally removed the original metadata due to privacy
concerns. Or perhaps it was unintentionally removed. Guess we can't
really know without asking the original author.

--
-bawolff

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 12:15 AM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote:
> Here's an example:
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Common_crane_grus_grus.jpg
>
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 7:30 PM, Brian Wolff <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> That's interesting. Do you have an example I could see?
>>
>> There are supposed to be two separate fields - one for camera
>> (Actually 2 separate fields for make and model of camera), and one for
>> software used to process the image.
>>
>> Ultimately though, if adobe is doing that, there's not really anything
>> we can do about it.
>>
>> --
>> -bawolff
>>
>> On 9/29/15, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > I see many images on Commons that have replaced info about the camera
>> > with
>> > info about the processing in Adobe tools. I don't know where exactly
>> > that
>> > camera metadata is getting stripped out, but I wish that it would be
>> > left
>> > intact after processing in Adobe tools and uploading to Commons.
>> >
>> > Pine
>> > On Sep 29, 2015 4:47 PM, "Brian Wolff" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> >> On 9/29/15, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> > Good idea. I see a lot of EXIF and my hunch is that we would prefer
>> >> > that
>> >> > format, especially if the license data can be made to stick even
>> >> > after
>> >> > a
>> >> > photo has gone through image postprocessing in  tools like the Adobe
>> >> suite.
>> >> >
>> >> > Pine
>> >>
>> >> Adobe is the inventor of XMP. Photoshop is probably the most complete
>> >> implementation of XMP in existence.
>> >>
>> >> I'm not that familiar with photoshop, but its highly likely that it
>> >> properly maintains both exif and XMP metadata after any post
>> >> processing.
>> >>
>> >> We prefer Exif and XMP equally (See also my other email).
>> >> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:EXIF has some info about
>> >> how things work at commons.
>> >>
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