| @NasterXchange | 10-09-2018 07:03 AM |
Re: Cleaning EXIF - red flag?
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Originally Posted by Ebayorbust
(Post 948603)
He can't. He's just trying to sound knowledgeable on a subject he knows precisely nothing about.
| well, lets start with the WHAT is EXIF?
EXIF stands for "exchangeable image file format" and allows you to store certain information within your photos. This information is known as "metadata" and can include things like the date and time the shot was taken, camera settings like shutter speed and focal length, and copyright information.
When you submit these days documents for verification (for example to an Exchange), most companies will also check the EXIF data to check if these documents have not been manipulated. Meaning are they really from a Scanner? are they really from a digital camera?
Manipulated images might not have EXIF data and would be rejected with reasons like "Please provide original documents" "Please provide documents which are not modified by a software"... How do you think they check this?
Here an example of EXIF data: https://i.imgur.com/X2muCwp.jpg
Now the second case:
You have your Ebay Accounts and you sell the same articles through different accounts. You take different pictures of the articles with your smartphone.
In this case, you don't really want to have Ebay linking all your accounts through your photos.
So in this case, you use some software to remove ALL the EXIF Data on your Photos. In this case, Ebay will never be able to say that these pictures have been taken by the same phone and the pictures will not be rejected! As everyone can and should "rework" the images of his products to have them looking better.
As you can see, in some cases EXIF data would be helpful and in other not at all.
Of course I'm not the EXIF Expert, but I know exactly what it is about and how it works, Mr Ebayorbust :) | 
