Bug #12333 for Image-ExifTool: Trouble viewing or updating attributes in a JPG from an Olympus C2500L Camera

Mon Apr 18 19:19:05 2005 Guest - Ticket created

Subject:

Trouble viewing or updating attributes in a JPG from an Olympus C2500L Camera

This problem occurs with 5.03 on a Mac running OS-X 10.3 with the distributed perl (5.8.1-RC3) and in 4.95 on a Windows XP system running activeperl. I have been given several images taken with an Olympus C2500L. I can read the image data with ACDSee, IView MediaPro and jhead. The exiftool script gives the following error on some, but not all, of the images: fwp1@jester$ exiftool 2001-10-28+00-45-03.JPG Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /Library/Perl/5.8.1/Image/ExifTool.pm line 1529, <EXIFTOOL_FILE> chunk 3. 'x' outside of string in unpack at /Library/Perl/5.8.1/Image/ExifTool.pm line 1305, <EXIFTOOL_FILE> chunk 3. This image is available online at the following URL: http://www2.msstate.edu/~fwp1/c2500l.jpg Please let me know if I can provide any further information.

Mon Apr 18 21:55:44 2005 EXIFTOOL [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added 120 min

Thanks for reporting this bug and for providing an example image. I was able to locate and fix the problem. There was a bug which could cause ExifTool to corrupt the maker notes of Olympus C2500L images when editing EXIF information, and the corrupted file gives the error you observed when you try to read it back again. These errors have been fixed, and version 5.04 has been released on my web site. You should revert to your original copies of these files if you want to recover the maker note information. I apologize for any inconvenience this problem has caused.

Mon Apr 18 21:55:45 2005 EXIFTOOL [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'new' to 'resolved'

Thu Jan 19 08:58:55 2006 EXIFTOOL [...] cpan.org - Fixed in 5.05 added

Thu Jan 19 13:28:47 2006 EXIFTOOL [...] cpan.org - Given to EXIFTOOL