Irfanview seems to know the difference between EXIF data and other meta data, and treats it differently. In fact if it doesn't think there is EXIF data if won't let you try to examine it, which may be a problem if there are tags it doesn't understand.
Thibouille wrote: > Well people usually mix up everything and talk about EXIF when thay > really should say metadata (Exif, Xmp, Iptc). Irfan may say there's > Exif when in fact it is Iptc. I do not have Irfan but this is typical > mistake. > > Tiff defenitely supports EXIF as per EXIF specifications paper. (yeah > I'm into this stuff right now for my programming efforts). > > 2007/3/16, Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Odd. After reading these comments I opened a PEF in PS CS, saved it as a >> TIF, and read it with Irfan .... plenty of exif data available. >> >> Shel >> >> >> >>> [Original Message] >>> From: David Savage >>> >>> On 3/16/07, John Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>> Oh yes it does. Furthermore, the *ist D >>>> TIFF files contain EXIF information. >>>> But a lot of image manipulating software >>>> thinks that EXIF data only comes in >>>> JPEG files, so doesn't even try to find it in a TIFF. >>>> >>> My memory is a bit blurry on this as it's been a while, but I remember >>> the *istD .tif files having exif data included, but when I saved them >>> as .tif in PS the Exif data was stripped out. It one of the reasons >>> why I went away from the .tif file format. >>> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> >> > > > -- Entropy Seminar: The results of a five yeer studee ntu the sekend lw uf thurmodynamiks aand itz inevibl fxt hon shewb rt nslpn raq liot. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
