Photographs and EXIF
What a camera wrote into a picture, in up to four sections — with the numbers that mean nothing on their own written out as words.
The four sections
| Camera | Make and model, the exposure time, the aperture, the ISO value, the metering mode and the flash. |
| Lens | The lens and the focal length. |
| Date & Time | When the picture was taken — the date the grid is built from. |
| Other | Everything else the file carries. |
Only the sections the file actually has are shown. A picture saved by a screenshot, or exported by an editor that strips its metadata, often has almost nothing here — and that absence is itself worth knowing, because it is why the file was placed by its file dates.
Numbers written as words
A lot of EXIF is stored as numbers that mean nothing by themselves. The metering mode is a small integer; the flash is a bitfield packing half a dozen separate facts; the exposure time is a fraction.
AssetScout writes them the way a photographer reads them, rather than printing the raw value. Rows that were explained this way carry a small mark — hold the pointer over such a row to read what the underlying value actually was.
Tags the app has never seen
An EXIF tag AssetScout does not know is not thrown away. It appears in the Other section under the name the file itself gives it. Camera makers write their own tags, and a manual that silently dropped them would be lying about what is in your file.
Where the picture was taken
When the file carries GPS coordinates, the map at the top of the panel is zoomed in on the place with a camera marker on it. Coordinates south of the equator and west of Greenwich are shown where they belong.