System: Linux mint 20.3
Already since years I use exiftool to my great satisfaction to keep up in organizing my pictures.
To keep track the exact source (in terms of camera) I use the Make/Model tags AND a serial number.For Panasonic I use the tag "panasonic:internalserialnumber". All went ok until I updated to 12.57 from 11.88. So I experimented a bit with versions 12.00 and 12.60.
Image-ExifTool-12.00$ ./exiftool -ver
12.00
Image-ExifTool-12.00$ ./exiftool -s '-panasonic:internalserialnumber' ../P1200698.JPG
InternalSerialNumber : XER1609070119
In 12.60 it all looks the same as in 11.88.
Image-ExifTool-12.60$ ./exiftool -ver
12.60
Image-ExifTool-12.60$ ./exiftool -s '-panasonic:internalserialnumber' ../P1200698.JPG
InternalSerialNumber : (XER) 2016:09:07 no. 0119
But in 12.60 this look garbled: I see a part of the serial ("XER"), a date ("2016:09:07") I don't recognize and something unknown to me.
Why is the representation changed ?
From version 12.32 (https://exiftool.org/ancient_history.html#v12.32)
Fixed formatting of InternalSerialNumber for some Panasonic cameras
See this thread (https://exiftool.org/forum/index.php?topic=12873.0).
Sidenote, Google failed to find that thread. I had to resort to Yandex :(
Quote from: StarGeek on April 19, 2023, 01:30:20 AMFrom version 12.32 (https://exiftool.org/ancient_history.html#v12.32)
Fixed formatting of InternalSerialNumber for some Panasonic cameras
See this thread (https://exiftool.org/forum/index.php?topic=12873.0).
Sidenote, Google failed to find that thread. I had to resort to Yandex :(
@StarGeek: thanks for that thread, I never found it 8) It clarifies what i am looking at.