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5 April 2023
Phil Harvey has posted ExifTool v12.60, the first production release since v12.50 on Nov. 8, 2022. The small download is available three formats, including a Windows executable and Macintosh OS X package.
Changes since the last non-production release include:
- Added a new Sony FileFormat value
- Added Validate warning about duplicate Exif
- Added ability to edit JPEG APP1 Exif segment with incorrect header
- Decode a few new Sony ARW tags
- Improved -htmldump of non-Exif-based maker notes
- Enhanced -geotag from CSV files support GPSSpeed (with variable units), "bearing" for GPSTrack and GPSDateTime in format "dd.mm.YYYY HH:MM:SS"
- Enhanced ImageDataMD5 to also support CRW, RAF, X3F and AVIF images
- Enhanced -efile option to also record updated and created file names
- Family 8 group names may now also be used in Composite Require/Desire tags
- Fixed handling of undefined tags in -if conditions to conform with documentation and match -p and -tagsFromFile behaviour when -m or -f option is used
- Fixed problem where setting the Geotime value didn't work when using an advanced-formatting expression containing a greater-than symbol (>)
In addition to the production releases, Harvey posts regular updates to ExifTool to handle new cameras and newly-decoded tags. His site includes an encyclopedia of Exif Tag Names in addition to extensive documentation and links to other resources.
We rely on the Perl library to write copyright information into the Exif header of our JPEGs and into DNG files. We also use it to read Exif header information. Our Services page includes a blow-by-blow account of building an OS X contextual menu service using ExifTool and we've added a Services Request form so you can request our help with your own software development.
We've explained how to reset the capture time in your images with ExifTool in Spring Back After The Fact. And we've written about using the tool in Copyrighter Pro to add copyright information to your images, as well. Most recently, we published Using Exiftool as an Image Organizer.
It's really the Swiss Army knife of Exif data.