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For an upcoming release, we are looking to integrate support for EXIF data, so that image descriptions can include metadata directly from JPG files.

EXIF data usually consists of information about the settings of the camera when the picture is taken, something that is valuable to serious photographers.

There are virtually hundreds of attributes that can be gathered from JPG EXIF data, and most of it is pretty useless. Therefore we would like to ask users with any experience what EXIF data they want to see?

I have already had requests for "focal", "time of exposure" and "date". We will of course provide a special settings file so people can tweak exactly what attributes they wish to display, but we want to create a set of default items.

More info on EXIF:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchangeab ... ile_format

Christopher wrote:Caption.

I admit it's unlikely I can foresee needing exif support, but if I ever did
the "caption" field seems to be the most likely.

We did some research into this, and "caption" is apparently not part of the EXIF specifications. It seems "caption" is part of another separate model called IPTC:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPTC_(image_meta-data)

Since "caption" is also a field that must be created manually(does not come from camera), then I question the importance of this field. Why not just use the Imagevue native titles and descriptions?

Just putting this into perspective now that we are soon to release EXIF integration. Of course we are open to further comments regarding the "caption".

EXIF is hereby released:
https://www.photo.gallery/v2docs/articles/exif

... which means I am "unstickyfying" this topic.

I'm afraid there is no other solution - To read EXIF data from the images, your server needs EXIF capabilities.