Photo Details / EXIF Customization

Richard S

OK I'm a newbie here and I have just one question: Can I use the API
to customize what shows up in the Photo Details?

I've spent a lot of time working on customized EXIF data capture and
I'd like my smugmug galleries to take advantage of that.

I don't care how hard it is, I just want to know if it's possible.

Thanks.

Nikolai

Cuurently there is no API for this

Richard S wrote:

OK I'm a newbie here and I have just one question: Can I use the API
to customize what shows up in the Photo Details?

I've spent a lot of time working on customized EXIF data capture and
I'd like my smugmug galleries to take advantage of that.

I don't care how hard it is, I just want to know if it's possible.

Thanks.

If I remember correctly Don mentioned at one time that the whole EXIF thingie cost him a lot fo work, while relatively miniscule number of visitors use it. Hence I would not think he'll jump on this, but it's definitely his call..

Richard S

Nikolai,

At this point I'm just trying to understand what's possible in the
current API and the "power user" level of gallery customization.

The way I see it my question has two parts:

1. Can I substitute what shows up under "Photo Details" with my own
arbitrary HTML text?

2. Can I somehow grab the image and do my own EXIF data extraction,
then use the output of that to create the HTML text I want as per
Question 1?

I agree completely that EXIF processing is a royal pain. All the more
reason to get it right. Let the individual hackers (like me) do the
hard work and then the whole community benefits.

It's one more way we can be better than Pbase. "Full EXIF" - what a
joke.

Nikolai

Richard,

Richard S wrote:

Nikolai,

At this point I'm just trying to understand what's possible in the
current API and the "power user" level of gallery customization.

The way I see it my question has two parts:

1. Can I substitute what shows up under "Photo Details" with my own
arbitrary HTML text?

2. Can I somehow grab the image and do my own EXIF data extraction,
then use the output of that to create the HTML text I want as per
Question 1?

I agree completely that EXIF processing is a royal pain. All the more
reason to get it right. Let the individual hackers (like me) do the
hard work and then the whole community benefits.

It's one more way we can be better than Pbase. "Full EXIF" - what a
joke.

The only currently existing EXIF-related API is described here.
We definitely can "grab" the image and then use that API or do exif extaction ourself (from original, I mean, since EXIF is stripped form the smaller versions AFAIK)

As to the custom replacement - we need to ask devbobo or JT, they ususally come out with a lot of CSS-related tricks for the stuff like that..

Cheers!

Richard S

Yes I saw that. Most EXIF-related API's were written by people who
started working on the problem, realized how hard it is to capture all
the special cases created by each camera manufacturer, then basically
gave up and left behind an incomplete solution.

What I want is to override that method and do it myself so I can
control the EXIF info that shows up in my galleries. That's really
all I am looking for out of this thread. If there is a more "elegant"
solution that would benefit the community I am all for that.

Thanks.

Nikolai

Richard,

Richard S wrote:

Yes I saw that. Most EXIF-related API's were written by people who
started working on the problem, realized how hard it is to capture all
the special cases created by each camera manufacturer, then basically
gave up and left behind an incomplete solution.

What I want is to override that method and do it myself so I can
control the EXIF info that shows up in my galleries. That's really
all I am looking for out of this thread. If there is a more "elegant"
solution that would benefit the community I am all for that.

Thanks.

I hear ya..
I'll leave you to SM guys then - I've said all I knew:-)
Cheers!