Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/05/07

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Subject: [Leica] Re: EXIF data
From: walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson)
Date: Mon May 7 08:38:24 2007
References: <380-2200751714554294@M2W008.mail2web.com> <01BA55B6E072395A753BAF44@hindolveston.reid.org>

Well, that  explains it all.  The M8 doesn't work right because Solms 
stuffed it with giblets.

Brian Reid wrote:
> When you buy a frozen turkey or chicken or goose, it has been plucked 
> and cleaned. Normally the "giblets" -- various organs such as heart 
> and liver and kidneys, and the neck -- are wrapped in paper and placed 
> inside.
>
> Not very many people want the giblets. Usually they are just 
> discarded. But if you are one of the people who does want them, it's 
> very hard to go back to the slaughterhouse to find the giblets that 
> came from your frozen bird.
>
> So poultry processors pack the giblets inside each frozen turkey and 
> chicken and goose, simply because they might possibly be needed and it 
> is not a huge amount of work.
>
> The EXIF data in a digital image is just like the giblets from a 
> frozen turkey: you probably don't want it, but if you do, there it is, 
> and it's easy to discard it if you don't want it.
>
>
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In reply to: Message from telyt at earthlink.net (telyt@earthlink.net) (EXIF data (was: RE: [Leica] M8 trials and tribulations?))
Message from reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid) (EXIF data (was: RE: [Leica] M8 trials and tribulations?))