Derrick Story, Digital Media Evangelist and co-author of iPhoto ‘08: The Missing Manual, wants to bring over the meta data with the images he drags from his iPhone into iPhoto.

Hi. My name’s Derrick Story. I’m the Digital Media Evangelist for O’Reilly and I’m also co-author of iPhoto 08 the Missing Manual with David Pogue.

So, there’s a lot of things that I like about iPhoto. And, one of the things is right now, especially if you’re thinking about getting an iPhone or if you already have an iPhone, this application is the perfect companion for the camera function in your iPhone. And, the iPhone actually takes great shots. You just hold it up, press the little button and you have a good shot there, that all you have to do is connect your iPhone to your computer, have iPhoto open and you can just drag the shots right off your camera in the import window in the import window and use them.

Now, the only thing that’s missing, my Missing Feature in this whole scenario is that with every other picture that I drag into iPhoto from another camera, I have all this wonderful metadata. If I hit command-I, I can find out the ISO. I can find out what the white balance setting was. I have all this good stuff, the camera make and model, all that. For some reason, the same guys that make the iPhone, or the ones that make iPhoto, I don’t get hardly any of that data at all. All I get is F28, which is it’s a fixed aperture lens. Ok, that’s good. And, I get that it’s an iPhone, which I already knew.

So, my request to Apple is, what I’d like to see is a lot more metadata when I drag my iPhone pictures into iPhoto and then that way I’ll know what the heck I was doing when I took the shot.