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Posted on Sat May 31 23:00:27 2008 by bogdan
Editing by tag ID number & removing tag inside Makernote
Hi,

Two questions:

Using -H option, I can see tag ID number (inside Makernote) is 0x0095. How can I edit this tag using that ID value (instead of LensType)? I was thinking something like:
exiftool -Canon:0x0095="EF 50mm f/1.8" -which doesn't work, of course :-)

Is there a "secret" option to remove above tag (inside Makernote)? Because:
exiftool -Canon:LensType= test.CR2
-doesn't work either.

Thanks for answering... greetings,
Bogdan
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Posted on Sun Jun 1 02:55:23 2008 by exiftool in response to 7987
Re: Editing by tag ID number & removing tag inside Makernote
Hi Bogdan

Unfortunately you can't delete a makernote tag without modifying the exiftool code. I figured that deleting a makernote tag could easily crash the poorly written manufacurer software so I don't allow it. And I assume you want to specify a tag by number to distingush between the 2 lenstype tags? The only way to do this is to create a user-defined tag to override the exiftool definition. You can't specify a tag by number. - Phil
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Posted on Sun Jun 1 09:17:49 2008 by bogdan in response to 7990
Re: Editing by tag ID number & removing tag inside Makernote
Hi Phil,
Yes, I can imagine, deleting tag inside Makernote can be risky -I just needed confirmation from you.
Exactly: it's about distinguish two Lenstype tags. I was just hoping there may be some "easy way" to define tag by it's ID number -now I'll jump into "user-defined" stuff :-)

Thank you for answering... have a nice day,
Bogdan
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