Canon DSLR user.....

[foulshot]

Just wanted to pass on a little FYI. I went to a seminar the other night and the speaker was mostly talking about workflow and postprocessing, but he did touch on copyright a little bit. Interesting point he made about putting your name in the camera body. Use the Canon software that came with the camera, and put in something that makes it unique to you. He suggested something like "©Zach 2005". The Japanese I guess do not recognize the copyright symbol, so the parense with the c in the middle works as well. This info will be stored in the matadata and to my knowledge can not be removed from an original file. Then every Jan 1 update the name to the proper year.

Can't be to careful these days.

 

[Lan-Lord]

Good info Zach. I put my full name and phone number in the meta data. Because now all of the image search tools (google image search, etc) read this info and include it as key words... so if I want to know who is stealing photos and posting them on the web, I just google image search for "Chris Fullilove", and if google has picked it up, it will arrive in the search results.. I just learned that at a photography course I took.

Also, if you are ever interested in selling your work to a publisher, most editors require your name and contact info (phone number or email) be in the meta data. If your camera does not inject this info into the file, you can use an exif editor to include it (photoshop lets you do it)

 

[dmach8]

Your doing this post processing on the pc?

 

[Lan-Lord]

Originally posted by dmach8@Dec 12 2005, 03:00 PM
Your doing this post processing on the pc?

yes, you can do this during post-processing on the pc. Additionally, some cameras now insert that info for you when the picture is taken (my 20D does.. Im sure others do and will in the future also)

 

[dmach8]

Didn't see it on the Rebel XT.

 

[foulshot]

Originally posted by dmach8@Dec 13 2005, 01:32 PM
Didn't see it on the Rebel XT.

You should be able to do it on the XT. I could do it with my 300D.

Which version of (canon)software did you get with the XT?
After we know that we'll go from there.

 

[dmach8]

For the pc it installed Photo Studio 5.5
and Digital Photo Professional, and a bunch of other utilities in the canon folder, is this what your looking for?
The firmware Vs on the cam is 1.0.2

 

[foulshot]

It should be the zoombrowser or EOS Utility viewer, if you installed those.

 

[dmach8]

I believe I got it through ZoomBrowser, thanks

 

[foulshot]

Not a problem.

 

[Ridn9high]

Thanks foulshot