Originally posted by Mikesul Of course the content matters. I have and want no clients but myself. The feedback digital allows us is not really the chimping but the ability to view and process the photo shortly after taking the shot wit full information, including temperatue, retained with the photo. The EXIF serves many purposes. Each photographer discovers them over time. Percentage of keepers is nice but, for me, is secondary to what I learn from each shot. Being a keeper or not yields minimal useful information. I am a student of everything I do so that is what I focus on.
But the point I am trying to make is that I do not need EXIF data to tell me I made or took a bad photo. I know what I did wrong because there is nothing in the EXIF data to tell me. The composition was wrong, my timing was wrong, my depth of field was wrong. Usually everthing wrong with my photo I can see. I'm not sure what more I could get with it?? Being on film means less options. I can't change my ISO as easily as I would like. But that is a problem I have learned to overcome with the likes of stand developement for B&W. EXIF data tells me how I took a photo, it doesn't tell me why.