Image::...::Nikon(3)

✨ Image::...::Nikon ✨

okay so this is a page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation manual, and bestie, we're about to get into some Nikon EXIF lore 💖

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🌸 NAME 🌸

Image::ExifTool::Nikon — Nikon EXIF maker notes tags 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

ngl you don't have to do anything here, the vibes are automatic:

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

it literally loads itself, main character energy fr fr ✨

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So here's the tea, bestie: this module is where all the definitions live that Image::ExifTool needs to interpret Nikon maker notes inside EXIF information. No cap, that's the whole job — it's the little dictionary that makes Nikon's secret extra metadata make sense. 🫶

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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. iconic, generous, we love to see it 💖

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🔥 REFERENCES 🔥

The sacred texts, if you will 📚✨:

• <http://park2.wakwak.com/~tsuruzoh/Computer/Digicams/exif-e.html>
• <http://www.cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw/>
• <http://members.aol.com/khancock/pilot/nbuddy/>
• <http://www.rottmerhusen.com/objektives/lensid/thirdparty.html>
• <http://homepage3.nifty.com/kamisaka/makernote/makernote_nikon.htm>
• <http://www.wohlberg.net/public/software/photo/nstiffexif/>

(...plus lots of testing with Best Buy store demos!) 😭💀 the way that is the most unhinged and yet most relatable research method ever

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🎀 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 🎀

Huge shoutout to the squad who helped figure out some Nikon tags: Joseph Heled, Thomas Walter, Brian Ristuccia, Danek Duvall, Tom Christiansen, Robert Rottmerhusen, Werner Kober, Roger Larsson, Jens Duttke, Gregor Dorlars, Neil Nappe, Alexandre Naaman, Brendt Wohlberg and Warren Hatch — and to everyone who helped contribute to the LensID list. y'all ate and left no crumbs 💅🌸

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

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

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and that's the whole page, bestie — go forth and read your Nikon metadata 🦋💜

signing off from perl v5.42.1, dated 2026-03-31, on the Image::...::Nikon(3) page itself — periodt ✨👑🎀