Posted on 09/12/2012 1:54:34 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
btw I downloaded your pic and looked for metadata using Photoshop- nothing showed up at all, maybe Photobucket strips it out?
If we had a culture that valued looking forward, aka, “preparing for a rainy day”, prepping is what everyone would do who is not mentally ill or socially warpped in some way. We are now an instant gratification culture. The ghetto won.
Also, the survival industry has cried “Wolf!” too many times to scare up customers and elitists ridicule people who prepare in response to the chicken little survival industry. They’ve misled and made fear asses of a lot of people, ruining their reputations with family and friends. They have broken up marriages.
Be normal. Prepare for a rainy day. Ignore the fear porn industry. They ARE manipulating people’s emotions for the money.
Beats me; first time I’ve ever used PB. And first time I’ve ever heard about metadata in pics, DB. You’re light years ahead of me.
I’m still wondering if the old/ancient digital cameras were even capable of encoding pics w/ metadata? I just don’t know. If PB is stripping-out the info, I wonder what they’re doing with it? Hmmmm...
There was an article last week on yahoo about the entire retail sector trying to ween customers off of the sales addiction. The loss leader structure doesn’t work well in the modern internet world, so low prices on some items no longer drive sales up on others, which was the whole purpose of sale items in the first place. So prices won’t be going up so much as no longer temporarily dipping.
Metadata editing tools:
A bunch here. Any suggestions? I’ll have to check them out and see if I can find one for dummies, like me.
I have an old Kodak Easyshare. For metadata it encodes camera type and almost all the camera settings (shutter speed, aperture, and so on), zoom setting, and camera body serial number, plus other less obvious stuff.
Some “modern” cameras also encode GPS data, though if you are shooting in a shielded building or under heavy overcast, the last GPS reading will be used.
Not all “old” cameras use serial numbers in metadata.
http://www.amok.am/en/freeware/amok_exif_sorter/ is one program that sorts, http://www.wisegeek.com/how-can-i-view-the-exif-data-of-a-photograph.htm is a viewer online, http://support.google.com/picasa/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=19612 is another.
It’s a good idea to check what you post online in pictures! I also routinely remove license plates, clothing emblems, and the like that gives traceability to the picture. Wouldn’t do to show of my Barrett or my M60 with my license plate visible on my truck!
I find metadata useful when doing technical photography, where I might want a folder of all the shots I took at ASA400, 1/60th, and f11. I can sort pix by metadata, with a tool I got online that sorts by exif data (which is basically what metadata is).
Thanks for the warning, DB. I also have some very choice firearms, including a Barrett, and never have posted any of my personal Class III units online, either. Just mfgrs’ pics of them, glass, mags etc, but not my actuals.
The wiki article has some good freeware ones that delete exif metadata.
You lucky dawg. I wish I had enough room in my basement for that.
Thanks, DB; I’m working my way thru the links on that search. Lots to learn about metadata etc.
Hah! See, I’m not the only one!
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