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Title: Help with -FileSource Tag
Post by: Archive on May 12, 2010, 08:54:13 AM
[Originally posted by gsansoucie on 2007-12-23 01:43:25-08]

Hi,

I have exiftool version 6.96.

It works great for my digital camera needs.  I am at the beginning of a huge (for me) project of scanning in my 35mm negatives and converting to digital (.tif files).

I am trying to set the FileSource (-FileSource) to "Film Scanner" (Value of 1) per the following link:
http://www.exiftool.org/TagNames/XMP.html
(Scroll down to "FileSource").

I've tried:
-FileSource=1
-FileSource=3
-FileSource="Film Scanner"

No matter what I try, the value is reported as:
File Source                     : Digital Camera

Am I doing something wrong here?

Thanks in advance,

-=Glen=-
Title: Re: Help with -FileSource Tag
Post by: Archive on May 12, 2010, 08:54:13 AM
[Originally posted by bogdan on 2007-12-23 07:07:00-08]

xmp:FileSource is an integer tag, hence you must use -n switch:

exiftool -n -xmp:filesource=1 photo.jpg

Greetings,

Bogdan
Title: Re: Help with -FileSource Tag
Post by: Archive on May 12, 2010, 08:54:13 AM
[Originally posted by exiftool on 2007-12-23 13:31:52-08]

Hi Bogdan,

Try updating to the most recent exiftool version.  As of version 7.01
I allow you to set FileSource.  Before that, I was forcing the value to
"Digital Camera" because that is the only legal value according to
the EXIF specification.  Sometimes I wonder about the people who
wrote this spec.

- Phil
Title: Re: Help with -FileSource Tag
Post by: Archive on May 12, 2010, 08:54:13 AM
[Originally posted by bogdan on 2007-12-23 13:56:08-08]

Hi Phil,

Believe me, I'm up-to-date with ExifTool all the time :-)

But in this case, I simply didn't check for doing it another way -thank you for correcting me.

Bogdan
Title: Re: Help with -FileSource Tag
Post by: Archive on May 12, 2010, 08:54:13 AM
[Originally posted by exiftool on 2007-12-23 14:24:31-08]

Hi Bogdan,

Sorry, my response was actually intended for Glen since
he was the one using the older version of exiftool.

Glen: With the updated version, either
'"-FileSource=Film Scanner"', or '-n -FileSource=1'
should work for you.

- Phil
Title: Re: Help with -FileSource Tag
Post by: Archive on May 12, 2010, 08:54:13 AM
[Originally posted by gsansoucie on 2007-12-23 16:26:41-08]

Bogdan,

Thank you very much!!

-=Glen=-