Fredrick Loc: Former NYC, now San Francisco Bay Area

Agreed, as long as they check the “store original” box when attaching an image.

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

I post links on occasion because they are an authoritative source of news. If you don’t want to hear what is coming, that is fine with me, but some some people do want to hear more than speculation and summarizing news often leaves information out.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

No "Picture Count" with that?

Someone who heats his house with wood would probably not use a firepit. It would be like pouring heating oil onto the driveway and lighting it.

bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada

bwa

Royce Moss Loc: Irvine, CA

I agree with #2 Real water does not look like that to me Why a problem with weight? I'm 78 and take out my 7200 + Sigma 100-600 and Nikon 70-200 and use 2 shoulder straps no problem

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

Physical strength is not a virtue in and by itself.

We live a few blocks from the county fairgrounds. We moved to this house about ten years ago, and for a number of years we walked to the fair, but last year I struggled uphill home to our house. My wife’s suggestion was to drive there, but I carried a lighter kit, and she agreed that my solution worked.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

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.

JimGray Loc: Albuquerque, New Mexico

petrochemist Loc: UK

That's just one of many cases where EXIF doesn't give the whole story (or gives a misleading one).
EXIF generally has no knowledge of adapted lenses (not just their identity but also their apertures/focus distances/focal lengths), filters, lighting modifiers, & often but perhaps not always for extension tubes, teleconverters etc. It generally won't tell what has been done in post, but some software will replace the original EXIF to say it was used - often seen this with things like panoramas.
Even so it can be a useful tool, though I suspect with my shots it's more useful to remind me of what I did than to indicate to others what settings I used.
There can be an incredible amount of info in EXIF, most viewers only show a subsection of it, while programs like EXIFtool allow more to be seen. I can't remember ever seeing something I would be concerned about sharing, unless I've been shooting at sensitive locations...

Where EXIF misses something important I usually add it as a comment (such as 'full spectrum converted camera with #25 filter').

fantom Loc: Colorado

goldenyears Loc: Lake Osewgo

Rantarguments can sometimes be entertaining, but they are not what I come to UHH for. Nice to identify the topic as a rant so I can know to skip it and go on to the next photography topic.

Blues Dude

Exactly right! The details of a specific image were in the past and conditions will change for future images by other photographers. Don't try to duplicate someone else's work. Learn your camera and create your own images.

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

That depends on what you are trying to do. ‘Stopping motion’ depends on using the appropriate shutter-speed; EXIF perhaps can tell you what was used for the photo in question. Getting “good” bokeh depends on aperture and the lens used; EXIF perhaps can tell you what what used in the photo in question. View of fireworks will depend on shutter speed and aperture. There is so much that can be learned from the works of others; only a fool tries to completely solve a problem himself that others have done already.

joecichjr Loc: Chicago S. Suburbs, Illinois, USA

Great information 👍👍👍👍👍

joecichjr Loc: Chicago S. Suburbs, Illinois, USA

Big difference to me - and in the second of each, the details actually pop