Kevin Hoyt

If you have a digital camera, you’re no doubt already familiar with the concept of EXIF data. For those of you that don’t know, when you take a picture with most modern digital cameras, extra information about the configuration of the camera when that picture was taken, is stored in the image file itself. When the picture was taken, shutter speed, f-stop and even GPS information in some cameras are all stored values. Getting at this data programmatically has historically been for the likes of programming languages with fine-grained, low-level control (read: not ActionScript).
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