New iPhone Photo App: Exif Wizard
Tuesday, August 31, 2010 at 8:00AM | Glyn Evans 
App Store Description: Exif Wizard is an Exif app for iPhone 3G, 3GS and 4 that translates the most commonly used tags into plain English. Did you know that LightSource: 15 = White fluorescent? Now, you don't have to!
We've tested Exif Wizard on photos from all four iPhone models, as well as many professional and consumer digital cameras to make sure available data will be presented properly.
Given the recent privacy concerns over "geotagged" photos, we've included a geotag map display with Exif Wizard. Now, you can determine weather the coordinates embedded in a photo you have taken are too close for comfort. (Unlike the photo-viewing app that came with your iPhone, Exif Wizard lets you focus on the location of one photo at a time).
Notes: Some image editing programs remove Exif data from photos. Photos you sync to your phone using iTunes will have their Exif data stripped out. However, e-mailed and Web photos can be stored on your Camera Roll with Exif information by touching and holding the photo, and then touching "Save Image" on the action sheet which will appear. Some camera manufacturers mix undocumented "makernotes" with standard Exif data. Exif Wizard can display makernotes, but may not be able to translate the tag values into something meaningful.
App Store Link: Exif Wizard; Price: £0.59/$0.99/€0.79
Editors comments: I missed this app when it was first released, but thanks to the following comment from Dred242, which jogged my memory
Comment from Dred242 "If anyone is still looking for an iPhone app that can read all of the EXIF data embedded photos captured with the default iPhone camera, an app called Exif Wizard does just that. It was released Aug 25th 2010 and sells for $0.99 in the app store. Get it before Apple pulls it."
Reader Comments (5)
Does it let you edit the EXIF?
Something incredibly useful would be the ability to copy and paste exif from one photo to another, so when one app strips the exif when editing a camera photo, you can paste it back into it. Far too many iphone photo apps kill off the useful exif info.
I suppose the ability to delete all or parts of exif info would be useful too, like stripping out the geotags if you were uncomfortable with them.
Correct me if I'm wrong but this app just appears to be an exif viewer.
In fact, *ALL* apps that save photos directly to the camera roll strip EXIF data. This isn't the fault of the apps. There is no API that allows developers to transfer EXIF tags from the source image to the destination image.
This has been a frequently requested features for several OS versions.
Some apps get around this by having options to email or FTP or upload in some other way the photo to some external site.
Some apps do save exif, for example night camera. Perhaps it's just not approved...
Josh, it's not possible with the existing public API. Either they are not saving it to the real camera roll or they are using an undocumented API, which could lead to rejection.
I believe it's a combination of undocumented API, privacy concerns, intellectual property / trade secrets that keeps apps like these (and other) from making it into the apps store. As far as privacy concerns goes, Apple has a good point. The iPhone's default camera creates an EXIF file that's filled with "Big Brother" like data. Take a look at this: http://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=8203
Also, a point about intellectual property / trade secrets. Maybe Apple feels that showing too much EXIF data gives other camera manufactures an inside peek at exactly what the iPhone's camera is doing. Or perhaps an un-intended glimpse into future features of next GEN iPhones.
Thanks
Dred242
www.BokehImage.com
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