Image::...nCapture(3)

✨ Image::ExifTool::NikonCapture ✨

okay so bestie, this is a page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, section 3 — the whole thing gets filed under Image::...nCapture(3) when your pager truncates it all cute like that 💅. It's short, it's sweet, it's giving "quiet module doing important work." Let's get into it 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

Image::ExifTool::NikonCapture — literally the module that reads and writes Nikon Capture information. That's the whole job. No cap. 💖

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

okay so here's the thing — you don't call this yourself, bestie:

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

That's it. That's the synopsis. You don't use it, you don't require it, you don't summon it in a ritual. Image::ExifTool pulls it in the second it needs it, like a bestie who already knows what you're about to ask for 🔥

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So what's actually inside? Routines to read and write Nikon Capture information — and the tea is that this info lives in the maker notes of NEF images. 📸

Maker notes, for the uninitiated: that's the little private diary the camera manufacturer tucks into your image file. Nikon Capture writes in that diary. This module reads it and edits it. Both directions. Iconic behavior. 👑

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Copyright 2003-2026, Phil Harvey (philharvey66 at gmail.com) — twenty-plus years of holding it down, we love to see it 😭💖

And the legal bit, which we do NOT skip:

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

Same terms as Perl, periodt. 🌈

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🧚 REFERENCES 🧚

• http://www.cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw/

the sacred text 🍓

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

go read these next, iykyk:

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

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and that's the whole page, babe 🎀 no filler, all signal.

sign-off time: this beauty is living on perl v5.42.1, dated 2026-03-31 💫 go forth and read those maker notes bestie, you got this 💅✨🦋