

Tags defined in the Exif standard include:

There is a large overlap between the tags defined in the TIFF, Exif, TIFF/EP and DCF standards.

The Exif tag structure is taken from that of TIFF files. The specification is not maintained by any industry or standards organisation, but it remains in almost universal use by camera manufacturers. Version 2.1 of the specification is dated June 12, 1998, and version 2.2 is dated April 2002 and is also known as Exif Print. It is not supported in JPEG 2000, PNG, or GIF.Įxif was created by the Japan Electronic Industries Development Association (JEIDA). 6.0, and RIFF WAVE file formats, with the addition of specific metadata tags. The specification uses the existing JPEG, TIFF Rev. The "Exchangeable image file format" (official abbreviation Exif, not EXIF) is a specification for the image file format used by digital cameras. Users who consider this type of data superfluous or confusing can remove some or all it with XnView's Clean Metadata function. It is displayed in Xnview's preview area in its own tab according to the kind of metadata used. It also can include commentary and embedded thumbnails. Metadata is information about the image and/or file which cameras and image-generating programs attach to images to inform the user of a diverse number items such as: Date and time of composition, camera settings. In general, metadata is "data about data." In the case of XnView, metadata refers to information about images and image files.
