Hi all,

I was just browsing the NikonCafe forums and came across a thread with something i'd never thought of doing myself so thought i'd pass it on. Now i'm ready to take some stick if it's something everybody except me already uses but here we go anyway. :p

Basically it's just to check if your camera allows you to enter a comment into the exif data for the pictures you take. It looks like just about all the Nikon cameras do it so pretty sure the Canon and other models will too. The comment doesn't appear in the picture itself just in the exif data for the file so can be seen when on Flickr etc...

It helps in two ways..... It allows you to have a copyright message automatically in there for each image you take i.e. "© 2010 Fred Bloggs" etc etc... along with also acting as a proof of ownership should you ever be in the situation where someone else has got your camera, (Direct the authorities to that menu option and let them see it has your name in there etc etc...)

Anyhow thought i'd put that one out there in case there were others like me who had never thought of using it like that.

Cheers

Dave.

Edited 18 October, 201015 yr by WaveyDavey

Hi all,

I was just browsing the NikonCafe forums and came across a thread with something i'd never thought of doing myself so thought i'd pass it on. Now i'm ready to take some stick if it's something everybody except me already uses but here we go anyway. :p

Basically it's just to check if your camera allows you to enter a comment into the exif data for the pictures you take. It looks like just about all the Nikon cameras do it so pretty sure the Canon and other models will too. The comment doesn't appear in the picture itself just in the exif data for the file so can be seen when on Flickr etc...

It helps in two ways..... It allows you to have a copyright message automatically in there for each image you take i.e. "© 2010 Fred Bloggs" etc etc... along with also acting as a proof of ownership should you ever be in the situation where someone else has got your camera, (Direct the authorities to that menu option and let them see it has your name in there etc etc...)

Anyhow thought i'd put that one out there in case there were others like me who had never thought of using it like that.

Cheers

Dave.

The Canon SLRs do have this option, but it can only be set with the software that comes with the camera. So plug it into the USB port to set it.

I also set all of the exif data such as image copyright adresses and contacts and keywords in the exif data when I import the images with Adobe Lightroom. This makes life a lot easier when submitting the stuff to the picture agencies.

The copyright symbol can be accessed on a PC by holding the 'Alt' key down and typing 0169 on the numeric keypad... for example, ©GTMedia Services 2010

Edited 18 October, 201015 yr by Scuff

Yeah just to add on the Nikon cameras it seems it's just a case of setting the message on the camera itself then telling it to attach the message to your images. Nikon haven't added a © symbol to the characters available so i just used ( c ) without the spaces.

Cheers

Dave.

Good little tip Dave. And useful from Scuff too; didn't know you could do it on the Canons with the software. Mainly because I've never installed any of Canon's software

Cheers,

Steve

Good little tip Dave. And useful from Scuff too; didn't know you could do it on the Canons with the software. Mainly because I've never installed any of Canon's software

Cheers,

Steve

Glad it's been of use to people... And also glad it wasn't just me who hadn't thought of using it.

Cheers

Dave.

Basically it's just to check if your camera allows you to enter a comment into the exif data for the pictures you take. It looks like just about all the Nikon cameras do it so pretty sure the Canon and other models will too. The comment doesn't appear in the picture itself just in the exif data for the file so can be seen when on Flickr etc...

Yep that's one of the first things I always do on a camera. The words "Copyright Richard Reeve" are embedded in the Exif of every shot. It's just one more layer of protection against image theft and like all these things it won't stop a professional but it just adds a layer.