fantom wrote:
i think what these despicable elitists have been trying to explain to you is that the data you are requesting is already there and there is no need to repeat it. Earlier in this thread there is a picture of a firepit. To find out what the camera settings were (and a couple of dozen other things about the pic) I downloaded and saved the image, then opened it in my photo reader and clicked on the photo info tools and got all the EXIF data concerning the pic. It took less than a minute to do all of this. That is far less time than it would take for someone to attach all that info to a pic they posted.
It is cumbersome enough right now to post pix on this site and I know I won't routinely post the camera settings when they can be found in a fraction of the time by someone who cares enough to find them.
Good luck.
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Yeah, that was one of mine. I even posted the EXIF under it, as an example for those who have never seen or known the existence of EXIF tables. You wanna see EXIF data for every image? Well, you can't for images that are not downloadable, because UHH strips it off of preview images.
Your digital camera generates an EXIF table, a JPEG preview image, and either a raw data table or a larger JPEG image, every time it saves a file.
IF the image poster left it intact, you can open the image and use any of dozens of applications to read it. I use Apple Preview, which comes with every Mac and is updated with every full revision of MacOS. I'm sure that there is a parallel in Windows.
There is a special case where the EXIF data may not tell the full story! That is when the poster has photographed a slide or a film negative as a means to convert an image to a digital format. I do that a LOT, and usually explain so when I do. In that case, I might remember what I did 40 or 50 years ago... or not.
I don't understand the elitist argument, either... The folks who answer newbies' questions here are all volunteers. If you ask a question, we who answer usually try not to think anything other than it deserves a {PROPER} answer. Sometimes a little gentle redirection is included to remind people that learning requires a little bit of work. Sometimes I need that reminder, myself!
Keep asking... There are no stupid questions except the ones that are not asked! If you get a little snark, forgive it. People have bad days. Social media have minefields of manure just waiting to be stepped in. Once you learn to question everything, and seek multiple *primary* sources of information, you survive!
UHH is NOT a primary source of information about photography. However, many of us have spent a lifetime learning photography. Many of us have worked professionally in some or many roles in the industry. There's a wealth of information available on sites like this from hundreds of folks. I reckon at least 20% of answers are useful to fully accurate. (Sometimes 80% are useful.) Some of the rest are good background information. Some of them are amusing, once you get to know the posters' personas. Some of them are off-topic side trips taken "because we can go there."
Very few folks here are outright a$$#0!£s. But it DOES get old answering the same old questions that you can look up in Wikipedia or on Google or some other search tool. If you want to grow, learn to use search engines. You'll be glad you did.