[walwyn]

I may have said it beore here but EXIF is odd. Quite a number of people hold it in awe or at least impart some mythical status to it and believe that it holds the secret to all photographic mysteries.

Personally I don't see the point as it tells you precious little about a shot that you couldn't glean from an evening of reading a book. If a shot looks blurry it was taken hand held with too long a exposure, it its out of focus with too wide an aperture. Action shots are taken with a fast shutter speed, flowing water with a slow one what more is there to say?

Some think that possession of a jpeg with EXIF has some proof of ownership in law. It does not, anyone can add their own EXIF to a jpeg.

OTOH you can put contact and attribution details into the EXIF data. Deliberate removal of which is an offense in the US under the DMCA. All my shots have contact and attribution data.

ADDENDUM: Some cameras stick GPS data and other personal information into EXIF. Some people can well do without that.