"Camera Body No." and "Serial Number" ?

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Posted on Sat May 17 02:57:23 2008 by ajohn

"Camera Body No." and "Serial Number" ?

Hi

what's the difference between "Camera Body No." and "Serial Number" ?

how can i change "Camera Body No." ?

what i mean:
------------------------------------------------
1 >exiftool -serialnumber test.jpg
2 Camera Body No. : xxxxxxxxxx
3
4 >exiftool -serialnumber=yyyyyyyyyy test.jpg
5 1 image files updated
6
7 >exiftool -serialnumber test.jpg
8 Serial Number : yyyyyyyyyy
------------------------------------------------

see there is a little difference between line 2 and line 8 after executing the same command

any help would be appreciated!

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Posted on Mon May 19 01:27:56 2008 by exiftool in response to 7892

Re: "Camera Body No." and "Serial Number" ?

"Camera Body No." is the description for the Canon "SerialNumber" tag. I know this may be a bit confusing, but it is done this way to match the description used by the Canon software.

The command you used will change the "Camera Body No.", but since you didn't specify "Canon:SerialNumber" it also added an XMP SerialNumber tag, which is the only tag you saw in your last command since you didn't use the -a option. You may find it helpful to read FAQ number 3.

Also, you can see exactly what is happening if you use the -v3 option when writing the SerialNumber tag.

- Phil

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