Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ10 - special tags

[praetor]

Hi to all,

I'm new on this forum. Firstly: Thanks a lot for this great tool!

I have a Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ10 (DMC-ZS7). There a lot of interesting features like "Intelligent Resolution" or manual control with A/S/M mode. I would like to see this values in my pictures. Because so I can compare what is a good or a bad setting.

Unfortunately ExifTool doesn't display any of this information about the picture adjustment. I have tryed all tag names on https://exiftool.org/TagNames/Panasonic.html
But I haven't found all. Especially I mean this information:


I believe, the correct value for picture adjustment of SHARPNESS, SATURATION and CONTRAST are there in the maker-notes.
Is it possible to read this values with exiftool? I can provide example pictures if it helpful.

Thanks and kind regards
praetor

[Phil Harvey]

Hi praetor,

If you could post the EXIF from a full set of Contrast, Sharpness and Saturation pictures I should be able to decode this information in the next version of ExifTool.

To create the EXIF files, use this command:

exiftool -o exif/%f.exif DIR

This will create a directory called "exif" with the EXIF information from all images in directory DIR.

Then zip up this file and add it as an attachment to your post here.

Thanks.

- Phil

[praetor]

Hi Phil,

that's greate! Here are the EXIF files.

praetor

[Phil Harvey]

Thanks.  I'll analyze them tomorrow and get back to you if I have any questions.

- Phil

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Praetor,

It seems you are not using the most recent version of ExifTool since the current version decodes the information perfectly from the files you sent:

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exiftool ~/Desktop/exif -ver -contrast -sharpness -saturation -filename -a -T
8.29
+1      High    Normal  Normal  Normal  Normal  contrast_+1.exif
+2      High    Normal  Normal  Normal  Normal  contrast_+2.exif
-1      Low     Normal  Normal  Normal  Normal  contrast_-1.exif
-2      Low     Normal  Normal  Normal  Normal  contrast_-2.exif
Normal  Normal  Normal  Normal  Normal  Normal  contrast_0.exif
Normal  Normal  Normal  Normal  +1      High    Saturation_+1.exif
Normal  Normal  Normal  Normal  +2      High    Saturation_+2.exif
Normal  Normal  Normal  Normal  -1      Low     Saturation_-1.exif
Normal  Normal  Normal  Normal  -2      Low     Saturation_-2.exif
Normal  Normal  Normal  Normal  Normal  Normal  Saturation_0.exif
Normal  Normal  +1      Hard    Normal  Normal  Sharpenes_+1.exif
Normal  Normal  +2      Hard    Normal  Normal  Sharpenes_+2.exif
Normal  Normal  -1      Soft    Normal  Normal  Sharpenes_-1.exif
Normal  Normal  -2      Soft    Normal  Normal  Sharpenes_-2.exif
Normal  Normal  Normal  Normal  Normal  Normal  Sharpenes_0.exif


Each of these tags is stored twice.  The MakerNotes value appears first in the output above, followed by the EXIF value.  The EXIF value isn't very good because it is limited by the EXIF specification to one of three values.  But the MakerNotes value is correct.  Use -a -G to see both with group names.

- Phil

[Phil Harvey]

Ooops.  I appears that I do have some work to do here.  The ContrastMode tag is not being decoded properly.

But maybe your main problem was that duplicate values of Contrast, Saturation and Sharpness are hidden by default, and you need to use the -a option to show them.

- Phil

[praetor]

Hi Phil,

This is very good, -a shows the correct MakerNotes value.

But is there a way to show ONLY the MakerNotes? Or ist the a way to eliminate the carriage return after the first value?
I use exiftool.exe -a -s -s -s with a lot of  tag parameters in a Visual Basic Script and I need only one line as return for every parameter.
I tryed -g and -p. Unfortunately I wasn't successful.

praetor

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Praetor,

I'm not sure what you are asking, but the -T option eliminates carriage returns and prints a list of tab-delimited values.  You can print the makernotes values by specifying -MakerNotes:Contrast, etc, or by specifying -a -makernotes:all.

- Phil

[praetor]

Hi Phil,

Thank you very much! The answer is -MakerNotes:Contrast. It's so easy, but I didn't find it in the manual. Sorry, but my english has yet been so good, I'm learning. And the manual is something abstrakt.

praetor