Re: Endless gamma in eXIf 2017-0119

"Soni L." <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.graphics.png.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On 06/02/17 05:17 PM, Glenn Randers-Pehrson wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 12:52 PM, Soni L. <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     Here I thought eXIf was about preserving "original metadata", or
>     more specifically I thought it was "userdata" - data for the user
>     (I'm definitely using this term wrong, I know).
>
>     Shouldn't eXIf be considered "sensor/camera data" and thus only
>     useful for ppl who know what they're doing, and not automatically
>     mangled into the image? Did I miss the messages where it was said
>     otherwise?
>
>
> I consider it to be that, but as Pavel pointed out, others might grab 
> the gamma or other colorspace info out of Exif and apply it to the image,
> despite whatever warnings we might put in the chunk spec.
>
> Glenn
>
>

Require that all eXIf chunks include the string "NOT FOR USE AS IMAGE 
METADATA" as a prefix?

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most
engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot

_______________________________________________
png-mng-misc mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/png-mng-misc
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.