The purpose of image metadata

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I imagine it's very useful for professional photographers but having additional options to help organize yours files is always nice. It's crazy that video files are in the dark ages on metadata
 
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I know the obvious answers, but what the fuck? Also, i seem to have issues with targeting just the camera metadata by itself. When i try to turn it off it by default wants to turn off all the metadata, which i dont want either. I find this separation issue suspicious: i should be able to target any one issue easily.
 
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LatinasAreTheFuture said:
I know the obvious answers, but what the fuck? Also, i seem to have issues with targeting just the camera metadata by itself. When i try to turn it off it by default wants to turn off all the metadata, which i dont want either. I find this separation issue suspicious: i should be able to target any one issue easily.
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I don't understand what you are saying. The metadata is a text file that's incorporated into the binary image file. If you were really motivated you could open the binary image file and blank out the fields in the text file you want empty. Cameras don't usually support this feature because they assume photographers want more metadata including a copyright notice. If this is about GPS coordinates. Cameras usually have a way to turn off GPS data so the metadata in the file just says 0,0,0 for the GPS coordinates.
 
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Maybe im tripping, i thought it wasnt letting me turn it off by itself without turning it off on the rest of my phone but thats not the case.
 
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I use metadata in photography for a variety of things, like helping to correct white balance or determine which photo was taken first. Shutter speed is surprisingly useful to know.

I've also seen photography snobs use metadata to mock amateurs for using automatic settings, and internet sleuths like to examine GPS data or date/time data to "prove" where someone was at a given time. But it's easy to spoof metadata if you know how, so it only works as reliable evidence if the person providing images is technologically illiterate.

You can try using something like exiftool to selectively remove/add/alter the metadata of an image file. It's helpful for retroactively deleting or faking GPS data (for example). It runs in a command-line, but it's easy enough to use, and there are instructions online for it.

If your only computer is a cellphone, then I don't know what to tell you. I think it's pretty common for phone camera apps to have the option of turning off location data on future photos taken, but I don't think they'll give you any more freedom than that.
 
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