Problems with EXIF data on iPhone 4
The iPhone’s camera seems to have some problems with EXIF data, and it’s not such a big surprise: I’m pretty sure the same thing happened with the iPhone 3GS when it was released. Here’s the issue: For the iPhone 4, the EXIF data seems to list the camera model as “iPhone” rather than “iPhone 4.” When I first got my iPhone 3GS, I had the same problem. I only discovered this recently, when I was categorizing/sorting my photos by EXIF data, and realized some of my iPhone 3GS photos—the ones from when I first got that phone—weren’t labeled as being from that camera.
A thread at Flickr addresses this issue, as it’s causing problems for Flickr in categorizing photos from the different iPhone models.
Check out this chart (also shown below, as it looked today), which seems to show hardly any photos on Flickr taken with the iPhone 4 (certainly not the case):
