Exchangeable image file format
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Exchangeable image file format (officially Exif, according to JEIDA/JEITA/CIPA specifications) is a standard that specifies formats for images, sound, and ancillary tags used by digital cameras (including smartphones), scanners and other systems handling image and sound files recorded by digital cameras. The specification uses the following existing encoding formats with the addition of specific metadata tags: JPEG lossy coding for compressed image files, TIFF Rev. 6.0 (RGB or YCbCr) for uncompressed image files, and RIFF WAV for audio files (linear PCM or ITU-T G.711 μ-law PCM for uncompresse
Key facts
- File format.screenshot
- Buick Terraza -- 09-26-2009 Exif.png
- File format.caption
- Exif of a file in Wikimedia Commons (compact form)
- File format.extension
- .JPG, .TIF, .WAV, .PNG,.WEBP
- File format.owner
- JEIDA, now JEITA, CIPA
- File format.latest release version
- 3.0
- File format.extended from
- TIFF, JPEG, WAV
- File format.extended to
- DCF
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Exchangeable image file format
- Image
- DigiKam EXIF information screenshot.png
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- Commons category
- Exif
- short name
- Exif
- inception
- 1995-10-00
- described at URL
- www.cipa.jp/std/documents/e/DC-008-2012_E.pdf
- software version identifier
- 3.1
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18 sectionsContents
- {{anchor|1.0|1.1|2.0|R98|2.1|2.2|2.21|2.3|3.0}}Background
- Version history
- Technical
- Geolocation
- Program support
- Problems
- Technical
- Privacy and security
- Related standards
- Exif fields
- Example
- Time tags
- FlashPix extensions
- Exif audio files
- MakerNote data
- See also
- References
- External links
Exchangeable image file format (officially Exif, according to JEIDA/JEITA/CIPA specifications) is a standard that specifies formats for images, sound, and ancillary tags used by digital cameras (including smartphones), scanners and other systems handling image and sound files recorded by digital cameras. The specification uses the following existing encoding formats with the addition of specific metadata tags: JPEG lossy coding for compressed image files, TIFF Rev. 6.0 (RGB or YCbCr) for uncompressed image files, and RIFF WAV for audio files (linear PCM or ITU-T G.711 μ-law PCM for uncompressed audio data, and IMA-ADPCM for compressed audio data). It does not support JPEG 2000 or GIF encoded images. This standard consists of the Exif image file specification and the Exif audio file specification.
==Background==