Camera ID identifier

Started by Johan7777, September 22, 2016, 07:42:05 AM

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Johan7777

Been looking all morning, is there a command line in exiftool to identify camera ID for video MOV files?
In  my case, how to spot a difference between two iPhones' MOV videos, or see if two videos belong to the same iPhone? Thank you.

Phil Harvey

I don't know if the information you want exists, but I recommend using this command on videos from two different phones then comparing the out.txt files to see what the differences are:

exiftool -a -u -G1 FILE > out.txt

- Phil
...where DIR is the name of a directory/folder containing the images.  On Mac/Linux/PowerShell, use single quotes (') instead of double quotes (") around arguments containing a dollar sign ($).

Johan7777

Comparing files doesn't show any difference. There are some tags that require using -b option to extract, but when I do it's unreadable.
Everything of the camera of iPhone 6s is very detailed but no serial number. Wonder if possible at all.
Thanks.

Phil Harvey

I looked into this before for a specific iPhone and iOS version, and didn't find anything that could identify the specific phone.

- Phil
...where DIR is the name of a directory/folder containing the images.  On Mac/Linux/PowerShell, use single quotes (') instead of double quotes (") around arguments containing a dollar sign ($).

Antohagg

I'm looking for the same. Have there been any changes since 2016, when this post was posted?
I can probably sort most out by looking at camera model, but some friends have same model and an ID would have been nice to distinguish between them.

Phil Harvey

As far as I know, this situation has not changed.

- Phil
...where DIR is the name of a directory/folder containing the images.  On Mac/Linux/PowerShell, use single quotes (') instead of double quotes (") around arguments containing a dollar sign ($).