Buyers became suspicious. How to convince them of your honesty?

Today on the secondary market there are many savvy sellers and restorers of “drowned” cars. Because of this, honest photographers Those selling their favorite car with low mileage are faced with mistrust. Buyers write in chats:"Ah how do I know this is real RAW?”or“What if you changed the mileage in the program?”.

As a service engineer, I will teach you how to firmly prove the authenticity of numbers in 2 minutes.

3 Steps to verify mileage authenticity

1. Step 1: Take a test shot in daylight

   Take a photo in RAW format (NEF, CR3, ARW, RAF). Don't process it in Lightroom or Photoshop - any The saving program may overwrite some of the MakerNote fields.

2. Step 2: Upload the file to an independent online service

   Run the frame through our metadata verification service. Save a direct link to the result or done screenshot from the browser.

3. Step 3: Send the source to the buyer via Cloud (Yandex Drive / Google Drive)

   Never send photos via instant messengers (Telegram, WhatsApp, Viber) with regular compression - they are completely remove EXIF metadata block! Send only uncompressed source as a file.

Why can't the original RAW be faked on the knee?

The raw RAW file contains closed header structures (`MakerNotes`). When you try to edit the mileage tag in The hex editor breaks the manufacturer's proprietary checksums (Nikon, Sony, Canon). Professional the web decoder will immediately detect the fake and issue a validation error.