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General => Metadata => Topic started by: Beholder3 on April 01, 2014, 03:47:39 PM

Title: exif:ISO - field limitations?
Post by: Beholder3 on April 01, 2014, 03:47:39 PM
Hi,
I just looked at two files (.cr2 and JPG) from a Canon 5D3 shot at ISO 102.400.
There the exif:ISO shows up as "65535". At the same time the makernotes:baseISO is correctly "102400".
Values below this work nicely.

Is this really written wrong into the files? Or is there as misunderstanding from exiftool?
Title: Re: exif:ISO - field limitations?
Post by: Alan Clifford on April 01, 2014, 05:13:39 PM
That looks like a 16 bit number has max'ed out to me.
Title: Re: exif:ISO - field limitations?
Post by: Phil Harvey on April 02, 2014, 07:44:18 AM
This is the way that the EXIF spec stores values larger than a 16-bit integer.  The added some new 32-bit ISO tags to store the value in this case.

- Phil