Image::...Olympus(3)

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version 13.50 · 14 versions
, in fedora 43, fedora 44

🌸 Image::...Olympus — the maker notes decoder for Olympus & Epson 💖

okay bestie, real talk, the manual name is Image::...Olympus(3) and it lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section, and it is genuinely one of the cogs inside Image::ExifTool that does the unglamorous but iconic work. let's get into it ✨

✨ NAME ✨

Image::ExifTool::Olympus — the module that handles Olympus/Epson maker notes tags. it's giving backstage-pass energy fr fr 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

lowkey the shortest synopsis ever and I'm obsessed:

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

that's it. that's the whole thing. you don't have to use it, you don't have to do anything. it just shows up when it's needed, main character energy, no announcement 💅

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so what does this module actually do? it contains the definitions that Image::ExifTool needs to interpret Olympus or Epson maker notes inside EXIF information. that's the vibe. the definitions live here, ExifTool reads them, the maker notes get decoded, slay 🌈

👑 AUTHOR 👑

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

and the license tea, because it matters:

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

so: free software, Perl's own terms, periodt 🫶

🔥 REFERENCES 🔥

the receipts, the lore, the sources people actually went and read:

iykyk, these are the deep-lore links 🧚

💖 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 💖

not me getting emotional over the credits 😭 the way this stuff is a group project and everyone showed up:

  • Thanks to Markku Hanninen, Remi Guyomarch, Frank Ledwon, Michael Meissner, Mark Dapoz, Ioannis Panagiotopoulos and Tomasz Kawecki for their help figuring out some Olympus tags.
  • And thanks to Lilo Huang, Chris Shaw and Viktor Lushnikov for adding to the LensType list. 🌸

literally couldn't have decoded it without y'all 💅

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

go read these next, bestie:

okay that's the whole page, you ate it, go decode some Olympus maker notes 💖✨

perl v5.42.1 · 2026-03-31 · Image::...Olympus(3) — mwah, that's a wrap, see you in the next manpage 🎀🦋

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