Recent discussions here about Lens Identification, and
inquiries about the cumulative frame counter, prompted
me to revise my little program to peek around inside the
various IFDs, MakerNote tags, etc. in a Pentax file.
I've now added the ability to find the original contents
of a MakerNote tag even if it's been moved to a DNG file
and encapsulated in a DNGPrivateData tag. This works for
both DNG files created by V3 or later of Adobe Camera Raw
and native DNG files produced by the K10D.
I've also incorporated the decoding of the lens ID field.
A summary of what I've discovered about the Pentax tags
can be found here:
http://panix.com/~johnf/raw/index.html
A (Windows executable) version of the program I use to
dump the tags can be found here:
http://panix.com/~johnf/raw/ShowTags.exe
It's fairly easy to use - just type
ShowTags filespec1 filespec2 ...
at a command prompt (wildcards can be used). There's
quite a bit of output (100 or more lines per image),
so you might want to redirect the output to a file.
Unfortunately it appears that the FrameCount tag (tag 41)
is no longer written out - it shows up in files from the
D and the DS, but has vanished from the DL.
If anybody spots a discrepancy between the output from
ShowTags and the data in the table I'd appreciate email
(sent to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) detailing the difference.
I'm particularly interested in information about the
DS2/DL2, and about the K100D/K110D, and how these differ
from the DS.
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