Very useful info, John. Much obliged! -- Bruce
Tuesday, January 9, 2007, 2:24:05 PM, you wrote: JF> Recent discussions here about Lens Identification, and JF> inquiries about the cumulative frame counter, prompted JF> me to revise my little program to peek around inside the JF> various IFDs, MakerNote tags, etc. in a Pentax file. JF> I've now added the ability to find the original contents JF> of a MakerNote tag even if it's been moved to a DNG file JF> and encapsulated in a DNGPrivateData tag. This works for JF> both DNG files created by V3 or later of Adobe Camera Raw JF> and native DNG files produced by the K10D. JF> I've also incorporated the decoding of the lens ID field. JF> A summary of what I've discovered about the Pentax tags JF> can be found here: JF> http://panix.com/~johnf/raw/index.html JF> A (Windows executable) version of the program I use to JF> dump the tags can be found here: JF> http://panix.com/~johnf/raw/ShowTags.exe JF> It's fairly easy to use - just type JF> ShowTags filespec1 filespec2 ... JF> at a command prompt (wildcards can be used). There's JF> quite a bit of output (100 or more lines per image), JF> so you might want to redirect the output to a file. JF> Unfortunately it appears that the FrameCount tag (tag 41) JF> is no longer written out - it shows up in files from the JF> D and the DS, but has vanished from the DL. JF> If anybody spots a discrepancy between the output from JF> ShowTags and the data in the table I'd appreciate email JF> (sent to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) detailing the difference. JF> I'm particularly interested in information about the JF> DS2/DL2, and about the K100D/K110D, and how these differ JF> from the DS. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
