Hi, my name is Ivan and sorry for my bad english.
I have thousands of photos from my Panasonic FZ-28 camera on my computer.
I'm using Windows Vista 7 to change some informations like "UserComment", "Title", "Tags", "Authors" and "Subject". Now I can't use my 3rd party software "PHOTOfunSTUDIO" to agroup the photos by "Shooting" and "Scene" modes. My software don't recognize the "MakerNotes" anymore. Looking the photos with ExifTool I saw that the "exifbyteorder" have changed from Little Endian to Big Endian.
The question: Is there any way to restore this "configuration" flag on my files?
This "flag", "double" the size of the information on the photos and screw up.
Thank you,
Ivan Milazzotti
Hi Ivan,
You could try rebuilding the EXIF from scratch (see FAQ number 20 (https://exiftool.org/faq.html#Q20) for details). This should restore a consistent byte ordering (although without an image to test I can't say with 100% certainty). You may or may not want to include the -F option to fix the makernote offsets when you do this -- you'll have to do some tests to see.
- Phil