Image::...nasonic(3)

🎀 NAME 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to Image::ExifTool::Panasonic — it's the Panasonic/Leica maker notes tags module, and it is literally carrying the whole EXIF situation for those cameras. 💖

(this is a page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, section 3 — yes, the classic Image::...nasonic(3) situation, the title got a lil truncated, it's fine, she's still iconic 💅)

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

she doesn't need you to do anything, fr fr — this module just loads itself:

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

no cap, you don't call her, she shows up when she's needed. 🦋

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so what's inside? this module is holding all the definitions that Image::ExifTool needs in order to interpret Panasonic and Leica maker notes inside EXIF information. that's the whole job. she's a definitions girlie. 🫶

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

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

and the license, bestie, read it, it's short and sweet:

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

so like, go off, remix it, just keep it under the same terms as Perl itself. periodt. ✨

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🌈 REFERENCES 🌈

the receipts, the sources, the lore — all of it:

• <http://www.compton.nu/panasonic.html>
• <http://johnst.org/sw/exiftags/>
• <http://homepage3.nifty.com/kamisaka/makernote/makernote_pana.htm>
• <http://bretteville.com/pdfs/M8Metadata_v2.pdf>
• <http://www.digital-leica.com/lens_codes/index.html>
• (...plus lots of testing with store demos and my wife's DMC-FS7!)

that last one 😭 the wife's DMC-FS7 really did her part for the cause, we stan a supportive household. 🔥

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🫶 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 🫶

shoutout time, because we do NOT gatekeep credit around here:

• Thanks to Tels, Marcel Coenen, Jens Duttke, Joerg, Michael Byczkowski, Carl Bretteville, Zdenek Mihula and Olaf Ulrich for their contributions.

every single one of y'all ate. 👑

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

go read these next, bestie, iykyk:

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

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perl v5.42.1 · 2026-03-31 · and yeah, the page name is that whole Image::...nasonic(3) thing again 🌸

that's a wrap, mwah 💋 go read your maker notes, they're finally legible, slay 💅💖