Post by Rich GreenWhen submitting images for stock from a digital camera, is it
acceptable or not to eliminate
Post by Rich Greenthe EXIF Data (by copying the image to new document). I'm not
particularly excited about
Post by Rich Greenanyone knowing how I took a photo...
Rich:
Obviously if no EXIF is present (as in a scan from film) there is
nothing worth saving. However, it's interesting you should ask this
right now. There was something I just read that was a plea from a
large standards body (one that has three letters for their
abbreviation) asking all involved with metadata to preserve not only
IPTC but EXIF and other forms of meta information as well. They were
particularly interested in preserving color profile information, so
that might give you a hint.
I do understand the need for photographers not wishing to
share "proprietary" information, like focal length, shutter and
aperture settings, as well as how the flash may have been employed,
etc. However, many photographers have exploited this system by
removing the EXIF information regarding their camera make/model to
hide the fact that they may be using a digital camera that's deemed
inadequate by their distributor (what we used to call agencies).
IMHO, this is a fault of both distributor and photographer.
Distributors need to actually look at and evaluate the image, rather
than sorting and evaluating images solely based on metadata. It's
deceptively easy to give a quality control inspector instructions to
only allow images shot with Canon 1DS mark II's and Nikon D2X's and
reject all the rest.
However that simply means that some photographers will react by hiding
that information from the distributor forcing them to evaluate the
image on it's own merits.
Personally, at this point in time, I leave that information in all my
archive master files. However, it's your decision on what to do with
images that you send on to your distributor.
Hope that helps.
David
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