Image::...CanonRaw(3)

💖 NAME 💖

Image::ExifTool::CanonRaw — bestie, this is the module that reads Canon RAW (CRW) meta information. That's it, that's the job, and it slays at it. ✨

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

okay so the tea is: you don't load this yourself, bestie. It's giving automatic.

This module is loaded automatically by Image::ExifTool when required.

Literally just let Image::ExifTool do its thing. She handles it. 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So Image::ExifTool::CanonRaw is holding all the definitions that Image::ExifTool needs to interpret meta information from Canon CRW raw files. 🎀

These files? Written directly by some Canon cameras. And the meta info inside them is lowkey similar to the stuff you'd find in the EXIF Canon maker notes. Same vibe, different container. iykyk. 💜

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👑 NOTES 👑

⚠️ okay important, don't get it twisted: the CR2 format written by some Canon cameras is very different from the CRW format that this module processes. Not the same thing, not even cousins fr fr.

And before you ask: CR2 is TIFF-based and it uses standard EXIF tags. So if you came here looking for CR2, this is not the module, bestie. 🙈

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🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Copyright 2003-2026, Phil Harvey (philharvey66 at gmail.com) — an absolute icon, no cap. 👑

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

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⭐ REFERENCES ⭐

• <http://www.cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw/>
• <http://www.wonderland.org/crw/>
• <http://xyrion.org/ciff/>
• <https://exiftool.org/canon_raw.html>

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🌈 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 🌈

Huge shoutout to Dave Nicholson for decoding a number of new tags. 🎉 We are obsessed with you, thank you for your service. 🫶✨

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

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

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okay and that's the whole page, bestie 💅 this was perl v5.42.1, dated 2026-03-31, and it's part of the User Contributed Perl Documentation — mwah, go read some CRW files, you got this 🎀✨