Image-ExifTool - New Pentax LensType value

Posted on Sat Jun 7 10:16:02 2008 by bogdan
New Pentax LensType value
Hi Phil,

One member on Adobe forum reported:

Lens used: Tamron SP AF 17-50mm F/2.8 XR Di II
LensType: 4 230

I've noticed, Pentax (PEF) files have two LensType tags inside Makernotes, having different tag ID numbers (of course): x0000 and x003f (containing equal values).
Now, changing LensType by executing, e.g.:
exiftool -n -Pentax:LensType="3 25" image.PEF
-will change x003f tag only.
It seems that changing only this tag is enough, as Lightroom read this tag to recognize lens. Anyway, is it possible to change both tags at once? -so both tags would have equal values (to avoid confusion when reading metadata).

Greetings,
Bogdan
PS: If changing x0000 tag doesn't make sense, how about renaming it to "LensTypeOriginal" or similar? -it's just an idea....
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