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Title: Editing by tag ID number & removing tag inside Makernote
Post by: Archive on May 12, 2010, 08:54:21 AM
[Originally posted by bogdan on 2008-05-31 20:00:27-07]

Hi,

Two questions:

Using -H option, I can see tag ID number (inside Makernote) is 0x0095. How can I edit this tag using that ID value (instead of LensType)? I was thinking something like:

exiftool -Canon:0x0095="EF 50mm f/1.8" -which doesn't work, of course :-)

Is there a "secret" option to remove above tag (inside Makernote)? Because:

exiftool -Canon:LensType= test.CR2

-doesn't work either.

Thanks for answering... greetings,

Bogdan
Title: Re: Editing by tag ID number & removing tag inside Makernote
Post by: Archive on May 12, 2010, 08:54:21 AM
[Originally posted by exiftool on 2008-05-31 23:55:23-07]

Hi Bogdan

Unfortunately you can't delete a makernote tag without modifying the exiftool code. I figured that deleting a makernote tag could easily crash the poorly written manufacurer software so I don't allow it. And I assume you want to specify a tag by number to distingush between the 2 lenstype tags?  The only way to do this is to create a user-defined tag to override the exiftool definition. You can't specify a tag by number. - Phil
Title: Re: Editing by tag ID number & removing tag inside Makernote
Post by: Archive on May 12, 2010, 08:54:21 AM
[Originally posted by bogdan on 2008-06-01 06:17:49-07]

Hi Phil,

Yes, I can imagine, deleting tag inside Makernote can be risky -I just needed confirmation from you.

Exactly: it's about distinguish two Lenstype tags. I was just hoping there may be some "easy way" to define tag by it's ID number -now I'll jump into "user-defined" stuff :-)

Thank you for answering... have a nice day,

Bogdan