There’s just over a week to go before Barack Obama installs himself in the Oval Office, and in the meantime his geek-cred rating continues to climb. We’ve already seen his on-again-off-again iPod/Zune affairs, and his CrackBerry addiction is probably the best product endorsement ever.
Now, with the release of the official presidential portrait, the nerd-ometer continues to climb. The portrait contains full EXIF metadata, the text info tucked inside the file to tell you how and when the picture was taken. And guess what? Obama’s portrait was taken on the smoking hot, brand new Canon 5D MkII.
For the train spotters, here are the details: The lens was a portrait-friendly 105mm, and the shot was snapped at ISO 100 with a shutter speed of 1/125th/s at ƒ10. While we’re pretty sure it was the photographer, Pete Souza (his name is in there too) that took care of the details, we want to give credit to the President Elect’s PR flacks for not stripping the data out.
On the other hand, maybe this just slipped through by mistake, just like it would have done on Dubya’s technophobic watch.
New official portrait released [Change.gov via ★]
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