So my question to you is, how easy is it to change the EXIF data? I personally have no idea how to do that, and I suspect that many other people who know less about photo editing would be as equally clueless. I am going to assume that the EXIF info is not as credible as I think it is, but would you agree that it is more credible than a date stamp?

I actually don't know how credible a date stamp on a photo is in this day of digital manipulation. It would be easy to fake a date stamp on a photograph in photoshop. You couldn't do the negative, but the print would be easy.

There are a variety of EXIF editors and you can actually edit some parts of the EXIF in photoshop as well. It is basically just a file of data attached to the photo and can be manipulated without too much trouble by anyone who really wanted to make the effort. I don't know how well it would hold up legally as proof of the time/date of the photo.

And, of course, it can be easily faked without editing by simply setting the camera's date and time to the desired values and then taking the picture.
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Chris Harrison
San Antonio, Texas

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