Image::...::Canon(3)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, this is Image::...::Canon(3) — the User Contributed Perl Documentation page for it — and it's literally called Image::ExifTool::Canon 💖 aka the Canon EXIF maker notes tags module. no cap, that's the whole vibe.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

so like. you don't do anything. this module is loaded automatically by Image::ExifTool when required. it's giving background character who's secretly the main character 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

this module contains definitions required by Image::ExifTool to interpret Canon maker notes in EXIF information. that's it, that's the job, and it ate. 🔥

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🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

Copyright 2003-2026, Phil Harvey (philharvey66 at gmail.com) 👑

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. periodt. 💜

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💖 REFERENCES 💖

the receipts, the lore, the sources — bestie these are the links:

• <http://park2.wakwak.com/~tsuruzoh/Computer/Digicams/exif-e.html>
• <http://www.wonderland.org/crw/>
• <http://www.cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw/>
• <http://homepage3.nifty.com/kamisaka/makernote/makernote_canon.htm>
• (...plus lots of testing with my 300D, A570IS and G12!)

not me getting emotional over a camera testing setup 😭 the 300D, A570IS and G12 carried this whole thing fr fr.

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🌈 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 🌈

screaming, crying, throwing up — the collab energy here is unmatched. shoutout to:

• Michael Rommel and Daniel Pittman for information they provided about the Digital Ixus and PowerShot S70 cameras 📸
• Juha Eskelinen and Emil Sit for figuring out the 20D and 30D FileNumber 🔍
• Denny Priebe for figuring out a couple of 1D tags 👀
• Michael Tiemann, Rainer Honle, Dave Nicholson, Chris Huebsch, Ger Vermeulen, Darryl Zurn, D.J. Cristi, Bogdan, Vesa Kivisto and Kai Harrekilde-Petersen for decoding a number of new tags 🧚

Also thanks to everyone who made contributions to the LensType lookup list or the meanings of other tag values. y'all are iconic, genuinely 🫶

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• "Canon Tags" in Image::ExifTool::TagNames
• Image::ExifTool(3pm)

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and that's the page bestie, we're done, go read the tags 💅

this lil masterpiece is from perl v5.42.1, dated 2026-03-31, and it lives at Image::...::Canon(3). slay, bye 🎀✨