IPhoto 6 and Exif information?

Hi All,
My first posting since switching from Windows, so please take it easy on me?
I have a reasonable large digital photo collection from my old PC. I have imported this into iPhoto and allowed iPhoto to copy the images to its folder so it can take care of them. All of this so far has worked well.
I have a question about the Exif information within the actual picture files.
Before the images are imported into iPhoto, from Finder, I can do a “get info” on them and it will tell me information about which camera manufacture, model, etc… However, after importing in to iPhoto, again from Finder, this information is no longer available. But you can see this information from within iPhoto.
Does this mean that the import process has “changed” the files and maybe removed the Exif tags copying them in to the iPhoto database (or something?).
Thanks in advance.
Ady.
20" iMac (2GHz Intel Core Duo, 2GB RAM) Mac OS X (10.4.6) 4GB iPod Nano (Black)

Ady:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. I'm not able to duplicate that stripping of the EXIF data. All that gets changed in the info window is the size, lost 0.2 MB out of 1.8 in size, and the "Last Opened" time was different. Now this is in the Info window brought up by Command+I in the finder. The files are from a Canon PowerShot S400.
Actually there was one bit of info lost. The file had a keyword associated with it and it did no show up on the edited version of the files in iPhoto but did show up on the original file in iPhoto.
Interesting to note is that if I do an edit, like a rotate, the only info that changes is the size. Again, another 0.2MB is lost. Then do some red eye removal and we gain back 0.1MB. Very strange. But the EXIF info is retained throughout.

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