Lately I’ve been shooting film. I think it has to do a lot with the fact that I’ve been reading The Ansel Adams Photography Series 2. I’ve finished the first book in the series “The Camera”. I’m in the middle of the second book “The Negative”.  So in a climate that seems to be moving away from film, with new digital cameras popping up left and right. I know shooting films seems like a step back, but sometimes you need to go back to the roots to move forward. So like I said I’ve been shooting film and really enjoying it. I’ve been using my old Pentax Spotmatic II. It’s interesting to me that in photography getting the exposure, aperture, shutter speed, framing are virtually the same between digital and film or analog as I’ve heard it called as of late. Somehow I get an enjoyment from film that isn’t exactly the same as digital. It’s a more tactical and auditory experience. The feel of a all metal camera. Advancing the film with a thumb winder and the sound of it advancing. Winding the film at the end of the roll. All of theses things add to the enjoyment of photography for me.

Well so now I have to get my film developed and of course I want a digital copy of my images. Surprisingly enough I’ve been using Costco for my developing and they’ve been doing a pretty darn good job and at a really reasonably priced. They’ve done a great job on the scans. However there was one little thing that was missing. I really wanted the exposure information attached to the jpeg. I admit that I’ve been spoiled by my digital camera that way. So I’ve been keeping a note book and noting all of my exposure settings for each image. So now I have my digital versions of my film photos, and I have my exposure information now, I just needed a way to merge the two. After a google search I found Reveal 1.0. It’s open source software that runs on Mac OS X, Linux and Windows, and lets me edit the EXIF information my jpegs. So now I have a great method for affixing my exposure information to my digital images. Reveal is a very easy to use program with a pretty straight forward interface. I do have to admit that this isn’t a complete EXIF editor, however it does have the basics and fits my needs pretty I well.