ExitToolGui 6.3.8.0 - unknown or incorrect values of Nikon Z9 metadata

[Dinusaur]

Apology if this was raised earlier and answered. I regularly run this excellent tool to analyze my photos. Recently I noticed that since Z9 firmware version 5.10, a lot of metadata is showing 'unknown' that didn't exist in the earlier version e.g. 5.00. Here are two photos of sections of metadata from the tool; first one for Z9 FW version 5.00 and the second one is from Version 5.20. The second one should read the same as in first one as nothing in the camera is changed between these frames. This could be some offset problem as new meta data added in later releases causing this problem. Any insight on this? Thanks.

[FrankB]

I strongly believe that in this case ExifToolGui is only showing what ExifTool reports. If you run this command from a CMD prompt you should see the same unknown values.

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exiftool -makernotes:* <filename>
First thing to check is the version of ExifTool. You can do that from GUI (Help/Check Versions), or from a CMD prompt

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exiftool -ver
If you're running the latest version (as of writing 13.27), then ExifTool is (currently) not able to decode the info. In that case this thread could be moved to the 'Bug Reports / Feature Requests' (IMHO)

Frank

[Dinusaur]

First thing to check is the version of ExifTool. You can do that from GUI (Help/Check Versions), or from a CMD prompt

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exiftool -ver
If you're running the latest version (as of writing 13.27), then ExifTool is (currently) not able to decode the info. In that case this thread could be moved to the 'Bug Reports / Feature Requests' (IMHO)

Frank

You are a life saver, Frank. When I initially installed the GUI I thought it would also install the tool itself, it didn't and I was running an older version, 12.84. After updating the tool to the latest version 13.27, I see everything the way it should be. Bravo.

[FrankB]

Glad you got it working!

You will know this by now, but for others reading this thread. The GUI installer CAN also download and install the latest version of ExifTool. But it will not do that automatically, you have to enable that.



Frank