Removing serial number tags from Canon CR2 (RAW file)

Posted on 2010-03-20 23:14:00.222128-07 by pauljsolomon

I'm trying to remove the camera serial number from my Canon CR2 (RAW) files with exiftool.

I am using: exiftool -serialNumber=

and it doesn't work. What is the right way to do this?

thanks.

-paul.

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Posted on 2010-03-21 10:56:15.756137-07 by exiftool in response to 12582

Re: Removing serial number tags from Canon CR2 (RAW file)

Hi Paul,

Unfortunately makernote tags may not be deleted (to avoid confusing the Canon software among other reasons). Instead, set the serial number to something else. ie)

exiftool -canon:serialnumber=0 FILE

- Phil

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